How is this any different from the pre-written letters provided by liberal causes for you to sign and forward to your representatives?

Oh, this is PRICELESS!!! Thanks Dara!!!

Ivan, my thoughts exactly. MoveOn.org uses the same methods.

Because this is an interactive letter generator, and it's hilarious.

As a happily-married man with 3 young children, I've never felt so threatened as the time I attended my gay co-worker's commitment ceremony.

Well, one difference is that the liberal letters fail to recognize the special interest groups that present the largest threat to society: cats and dogs attempting to wed humans.

"Without the MPA, there's nothing to prevent activist judges -- like those on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which legalized gay marriage a few years ago -- from creating not only gay marriage, but legalizing polygamy and even marriages between people and their pets. "

D Huygens, you shouldn't worry. Your children will be really understanding of that "special friend" you make in the nursing home a few years from now.

You seem to know as well as any Red-Blooded American, that by the time your kids graduate high school, you won't have to feel nervous about that "gay-coworker" or that "old gay-college roomate" outing you in front of the kids.

By then, your kids will be so very cool with your alternative lifestyle, so accepting of you. Don't you worry. We will fight so you wont have to be "nervous" any longer.

A template for our times:

"Honorable" Senator/Representative fillintheblank:

I/We, on behalf of ALF/PETA/Peter Singer and/or otherwise unknown ethicists at Princeton/Harvard/Yale/Cowflop College of Animal Husbandry/Midwifery hereby and forthwith call your attention to my/our opposition and/or furious opposition to nonconsensual man-on-dog and/or man-on-Issaquahorse sex. Because the Voice of the dog/horse/cow/gerbil in question has been silenced by patriarchy and/or speciesism, I/we hereby woof/bray/neigh our displeasure at the suppression of our consent and/or dissent.

Sincerely/Insincerely,
Mr./Ms. Ed

The Peanut Gallery: I'm sorry it went over your head. Here, I've provided a handy link for you:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sarcasm

Um. This is a surprise. Hi!

Anyway, the reason I mailed the heads-up around was because it's for generating fake individual letters to newspaper editors, not for fake individual letters to legislators. They've had letter, postcard, and phone call campaigns going to DC for a few months now aimed at getting the anti-marriage "Marriage Protection Amendment" passed, and now they're trying to fake a national groundswell of support by getting their membership to send these in to newspapers all over the country. But since almost all newspapers have policies against printing prewritten letters in their letter columns, they came up with this fake "letter generator" thing to make the scam harder to spot.

It's kind of clever, in a very, very stupid and dishonest way. Unfortunately, it often kind of works, particularly in smaller markets, so I pass the word around whenever I find out about a new one. Any wrench you can throw into their propaganda machine should, in my opinion, be thrown, so please feel free, Mike in MO (and anyone else not in the Seattle area) to let your local papers in on the scam too!