Rep. Hargrove uses commercial to back gay marriage argument

Imagine being able to state your case for something you really believe in: You can take a few minutes and try to convince your peers to think like you do. That’s what our state representatives did Wednesday afternoon when they debated same-sex marriage on the House floor in Olympia.

Representative Mark Hargrove used his opportunity to debate same-sex marriage by referencing a Super Bowl commercial, where a man marries bacon.

In the commercial, a young man is sitting on the couch telling his mother that he’s going to walk down the isle, and when the mother asks ‘Who is she?’ he responds by saying it’s not a she.

Hargrove says, that mother and the commercial make a statement about gay marriage.

“That mom was realizing that same sex marriage is not the same as traditional marriage; and that same-sex marriage for her son would not be the best choice for him. And that second was what was the important message. All across the country people could recognize that.”

A Super Bowl commercial designed to be an important message about gay marriage would have certainly attracted media attention. Yet, this commercial didn’t attract any news-worthy buzz in the Super Bowl aftermath. It didn’t even make many “best of the Super Bowl ads” blogs the next day.

Perhaps, the message of the commercial was not gay marriage, but how silly it would be to love bacon enough that you would want to marry it. Presumably, how excited the people at Jack and Box would be to marry the tasty dish.

Hargrove might have proved a similar, more serious point by sticking to story of a woman who recently married a building in Seattle. Not only was that non-fiction, it happened in Washington.