Holy moly! Just saw my first "real" gay couple commercial...

Thanks BeckyTech 

Not a bad advert, and I like that different 'types' of family are being represented. Good for them.

Exactly! This advert,to me, is making a political statement rather than advertising how good the dealership is and why you should use them rather than another dealership. Which is after all, the whole point of advertising.....

The tag line in this advert is " The sale was so transparent that I didn't need to tell them I was married to an attorney"

Is it normal for a person,any person, to go into a dealership alone to buy a vehicle and be asked who they're married to? I'm guessing not!

Someone,somewhere has thought that adding this line would be a good idea to generate publicity,all for the wrong reasons IMO. Publicity like this often backfires because it gives the anti gay marriage the opportunity to voice the opinion that " it's been shoved down their throats at every opportunity"

The advert would have still had the impact of accepting  gay marriage as being no different to hetrosexual marriage if they had left that line out and  said something like " The transaction was so transparent I hope you didn't mind me closing the deal without consulting you,come out and have a look" kind of thing.

That will likely happen about the same time that men are no longer referenced as men and women no longer referenced as women and instead we will all just be referenced as humans. I don't understand the big deal in qualifying couples as gay or straight, so long as we don't put a rank on either one.

Awesome!! Great to see.

This was years ago, but my ex and I had been divorced for about six months and I was in the process of buying a new car. (oddly enough, it was a Toyota.)

They asked the usual "where is your husband" question and I told them I was divorced. THEY CALLED MY EX HUSBAND to ask him if he was okay with me buying the car. He told me later that he was so surprised that he almost fell out of his chair. He told the guy that how he felt had nothing to do with it and that it was up to me. He also told them that he thought them calling was not legal (he is, oddly enough again, an attorney.)

The whole thing was so strange and I left and bought a car elsewhere.

The add was terrible. Not because of the sexuality of the couple but for 2 reasons. One it was more an add about their same sex marriage then it was about a car. Second it was so poorly acted. She wasn't having a naturally flowing phone conversation but a one dimensional rehearsed monologue into a phone in a weird peppy voice.

I have always hated adds that sold other things more then their products. Ie: adds that seem to sell sex more then anything.

I think the "married to an attorney" line is in reference to keeping the car dealer on the up and up legally - not about sexuality.

I agree - not well acted, but glad the paradigm is changing. I've seen some interracial couples on tv ads recently, too. It's about time commercials reflected real life.

Country Ham, might I encourage you to ask why you feel your community is not very diverse? I think we only see what we want to see at times, because people who are different from ourselves are all around us, but we don't want to see it. So whenever we find ourselves feeling like there is little diversity, we must ask where are they and why are we not seeing them? And what can we do to bring that diversity out, how can we help people who are different from us become business owners and church planters and school teachers in our own communities? Diversity exists, but we have to choose to see it and embrace it, and we must empower, not only regarding sexuality but also regarding poverty, ethnicity, and the myriad of other social realities. :-)

If it were the EXACT SAME ad except it was a hetero couple, NO ONE would be saying it's more about their marriage than it is about buying a car. Because it's not. It's about how supposedly simple the process is of buying a car at this dealership. 

I'm not saying it's a GOOD commercial - but really, how many local car dealership commercials are? The acting is stilted and the dialogue is awkward. But that's a totally separate issue. 

To be honest, with the three vehicles I've leased, I've never been asked that question. I count myself very fortunate because I know a lot of women who have been asked.