It's 2017 in Ireland, two years after the 2015 public referendum that brought marriage equality to the country. In dramatic found-footage fashion, a heterosexual couple document their struggle to resist the Armagayddon that followed. Boarded up in their home, homeschooling their son in the ways of heterosexuality, and avoiding their neighbors Adam and Steve (yes, really) who terrorize them by buying them groceries, the family is in a struggle for survival following the onslaught of equality in Ireland. Somehow, amazingly, they have been able to remain heterosexual and married in the midst of it all.
Seriously, though, watch every last second of this Irish marriage equality PSA. You won't regret it.
The PSA may be Irish, but it's certainly applicable to "arguments" put forth by NOM, the Family Research Council, and our own evangelicals here in the United States. Thankfully, it is becoming harder and harder for Americans to take the sky-is-falling rhetoric of this dwindling minority seriously. In Ireland's own struggle for marriage equality, may those on the right side of history--estimated at over 70 percent of the country's population--carry the day in 2015. As the end of the PSA makes clear,
Marriage equality: It's not the end of the world, lads.
H/T
Joe My God