It’s really hard to be straight and proud these days. Rights are a zero-sum game, you see, and the recent affirmation of marriage equality by the Supreme Court can only mean one thing: God-fearing Christians who don’t agree with the ruling are sent straight to the closet.

At least, that’s the theme of an ad released earlier this week by Catholic Vote, a non-profit advocacy group that, as their name suggests, fancies themselves some political Catholicism. The ad copies the theme of a “coming out” video, framing an opposition to marriage equality as the social equivalent of being gay in the first place — an aspect of one’s personal identity that isn’t readily accepted by friend, family or the public:

The message is as clear as it is offensive. Marriage equality opponents are treating being anti-gay as the new gay, which itself betrays a complete lack of empathy for the LGBT community. In an overt attempt to appropriate messaging from the LGBT movement, actors in the video spend the first minute speaking in vague terms that characterize coming out. We are told that they are worried what their friends might think of them, that they’re different, that they’ve tried to change, but that they’ve now become comfortable enough to accept themselves for who they are.

But don’t worry! They aren’t hateful people. They “know a lot of people who are gay,” and they “love them.” They just don’t think they should be allowed to get married. They aren’t bigots, they just aren’t OK with extending equal rights to their gay friends. See the difference? You should. Because, as we’re told, “You can’t have a society of hatred.” These people are here, they’re anti-queer, and we need to get used to it.

One of the lines in the ad actually scratched the surface of making a good point. Just under two minutes in, one of the actors asks himself, rhetorically, “Where can you say, ‘No, I’m not going to be a part of this,’ and still respect someone?” Of course, the answer to that question involves not starring in an ad that appropriates the experience of coming out for your own political purposes. If you don’t want to be “a part of this,” then don’t! Don’t get gay married. No one’s forcing you to. But respecting someone entails accepting them for who they are.

Perhaps the most offensive theme implied in the ad is that being against marriage equality is a non-choice in the same way that being gay isn’t a choice. As if these Catholics were born with the knowledge that marriage is between one man and one woman, and to question that belief is to deny them their personal identity. But of course, Catholicism is a choice. Being against marriage equality is a choice. To claim otherwise and then wonder why the LGBT community is offended is itself offensive.

In any case, it didn’t take long before a comedy group made the perfect response video. So here’s your chaser: