February 5, 2011

• Zach Weiner, Destroyer of Homophobes | Bad Astronomy

  My pal Zach Weiner is a good guy. Smart, funny, talented — and he draws Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, my favorite web comic bar none. And it’s that last bit which has elevated him into my exclusive pantheon of personal heroes. Let me tell you this tale (and you can read Zach’s version too).

  On Thursday, he posted this cartoon:

  

  Pretty funny, and like most of his stuff, also kinda true. What it isn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, is an endorsement of “traditional” modes of insemination, or an indictment of the homosexual lifestyle.

  But that’s how the National Organization of Marriage interpreted it. This is a group that believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, and you can imagine how I feel about that. To give you an idea of how low this organization goes, I’ll remind you of this truly vile and despicable ad they put together a couple of years ago against gay marriage.

  Yeah. So this group decided somehow that Zach’s cartoon supported their cause, and they used it on their site. Thing is, …

  
  

  

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