Stories. Legos. Cartoons. Three things that Chad and Lisa Johnson say make their neighbors “a regular family,” no matter that the neighbors are two moms, Colleen Ozolitis and Lee Ann Martinson, and their five-year-old sons. Washington United for Marriage, the coalition working to defend the state’s marriage equality law, created an ad featuring the Johnsons that will run statewide on broadcast and cable.
The coalition is urging Washingtonians to vote “Yes” on Referendum 74 and give same-sex couples the freedom to marry in their state.
What do you think of the ad?
I think it is a positive ad, however, I’m wondering why we didn’t hear anything from Colleen and Lee Ann themselves?
Maybe it’s just me but if you are trying to show that they are a regular normal family wouldn’t it help to meet them and see, yes, they are a normal family?
I totally agree, Heather. I suppose there’s some sense in having straight couples speak to straight voters–but the strategy is scarily close to the one used four years ago during the run-up to the Prop 8 ballot measure, which I criticized here, for reasons similar to yours.