Wow people talk about looking for a reason to bash someone... Many people are misinterpreting this. Just because South Carolina (including myself) is enraged about the ad does not mean we don't want gays. It just means the ad is a little too forward and could give others the wrong idea about our state. I mean did a 10 year old come up with that slogan? And Timothy you know how I knew you were a yankee before I read the ending? Because Southern hospitality is very much alive and well today, we love other ethnicities, We do think its odd but we tolerate non-Baptists (I'm Catholic), but we hate transplanted Yankees. See not the ones who just come and visit and help tourism, but the ones who retire and decide I'll go somewhere to complain about the heat, a Southern drawl, and stop up traffic and live there. Those are called damn yankees. So in the words of Bosephus, "We say grace and we say ma'am, if you ain't into that we dont give a damn."

Wow people talk about looking for a reason to bash someone... Many people are misinterpreting this. Just because South Carolina (including myself) is enraged about the ad does not mean we don't want gays. It just means the ad is a little too forward and could give others the wrong idea about our state. I mean did a 10 year old come up with that slogan? And Timothy you know how I knew you were a yankee before I read the ending? Because Southern hospitality is very much alive and well today, we love other ethnicities, We do think its odd but we tolerate non-Baptists (I'm Catholic), but we hate transplanted Yankees. See not the ones who just come and visit and help tourism, but the ones who retire and decide I'll go somewhere to complain about the heat, a Southern drawl, and stop up traffic and live there. Those are called damn yankees. So in the words of Bosephus, "We say grace and we say ma'am, if you ain't into that we dont give a damn."

The ad is forward, I will give you that. But remember, it's advertising...for tourism, and furthermore, it has a target audience (gay people). Consider, the context in which it is written. I'm from the Northwest, "aint" isn't in our vocabulary. And we live in the United STATES of America. We're all in this together.