Wait Til Your Married For Sex… Unless Your Gay

A new ad campaign for the Bush Admin. through 4parents.gov, a government website run by the Department of Health and Human Services. This not so subtle ad aims at encouraging parents to persuade their children from having sex before marriage. That is assuming they will or even can get married.

With the Federal Government’s queer interest in defining marriage it is amusing to watch this ad. I am thinking to myself: If your a young person that is gay, since you cannot be married (in some states) is it okay to have sex now? Even if you drop the idea of gay marriage, the ad still assumes that marriage will happen in this child’s life. I can see more ads subtly hint at absolutes in life. For example ads about eventually getting divorced, being overwhelmed by credit card debt and saying goodbye to those pesky civil liberties.