Stephen Colbert weathers 'gay storm'

April 17, 4:39 PMInternational LGBT Issues ExaminerKelvin Lynch

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Stephen Colbert featured a hysterical parody of the National Organization for Marriage's "Gathering Storm" video on his show last night.  Colbert first showed the original NOM video, which he said he "loved" because "it's like watching The 700 Club and The Weather Channel at the same time."                                               

Referring to New York Governor David Paterson's introduction of a bill to legalize gay marriage in the state, Colbert commented that he "thought Massachusetts would be a gay promised land, a 'Gaysreal' if you will, but then the same-sex chickens came home to gentrify their roost."  Colbert said gay marriage can't come to New York, because "it's hard enough as it is to get a wedding announcement in the Times."  Remembering the Eliot Spitzer scandal, he added, "Why can't we go back to the good old days when marriage was between a man, a woman and an Emperor's Club hooker?"

Colbert's NOM parody featured actors saying,

"There's a giant gay storm gathering, with rough winds blowing in from the East, and even rougher winds blowing in from the West.  Before long, the winds will be blowing each other." 

One actor said, "I am a New Jersey pastor, whose church was turned into an Abercrombie & Fitch."  Another said, "I am a hired actor, who's willing to take any job - you may recognize me from that Phillip Morris commercial, or that herpes ad where I'm walking on the beach." 

The video ended with rain pouring down on an attractive black man, revealing his muscular body, as a closeted heterosexual married man tried to hit on him. Colbert appeared under a rainbow, holding a picture of his dead grandfather, promising not to make him "retroactively gay."  A voice said, "paid for by an anonymous group, which may or may not be the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."