Love is love — even if it’s between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
A bizarre and hilarious new billboard just minutes from the Republican National Convention site in Cleveland shows the Republican blowhards puckering up for a kiss that absolutely no one wants to see.
“Love Trumps Hate. End Homophobia,” the ad reads. Erected Thursday by the non-profit group Planting Peace, the conservative kissers are intended to send a message to conventioneers about their party’s platform.
“What Donald, Ted and the republican platform either fail to realize, or realize and just don’t seem to care about, is that their words and actions toward our LGBT family — especially LGBT children — have meaning and impact. LGBT children hear these messages telling them they are nothing but second class citizens and are left feeling somehow broken or ‘less than,'” said Planting Peace President Aaron Jackson in a statement.
The proposed Republican platform — which has to be approved by delegates at the convention — opposes gay marriage and seeks to limit transgender bathroom access.
“We challenge the GOP to think about how many times their children could hear messages like these and not be impacted or question their value and worth?
“These messages sink our young people into a spiral of depression and directly correlate to queer youth attempting or actually committing suicide. The blood of these children is on the hands of the anti-LGBT platform of the republican party,” Jackson said.
“When children are dying because of negative messages, it’s time to change the message.”
This isn’t the first time Planting Peace has used a bizarre billboard to send a political message. In April, the humanitarian group clapped back at Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant’s decision to sign into law a controversial anti-gay bill when they erected a billboard showing an image of Jesus and the quote, “Guys, I said I hate figs and to love thy neighbors.”
The group also posted a billboard in North Carolina to protest the anti-LGBT House Bill 2 and in the Kentucky hometown of notorious anti-gay marriage clerk Kim Davis.
“Dear Kim Davis,” the billboard said. “The fact that you can’t sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means that we’ve already redefined marriage.”
In addition to erecting fabulously placed billboards, Planting Peace runs orphanages, works to conserve rainforests and runs and LGBTQ right advocacy house.
