Gay marriage foes sure are clever!

For so long this fine nation's homophobes and other narrow-minded baddies have been associated with stodgy, wholly unfashionable leaders like James Dobson, Phyllis Schlafly and the ne'er done-up Shirley Phelps. None of these people speak to the youth of America.

So, in an effort to make themselves more youth-friendly, California's anti-gay marriage activists have established a new site, iProtect Marriage, a spin-off of the more staid Protect Marriage.

Like its sister site, iProtect urges voters to vote "yes" on Proposition 8, a ballot measure aimed at overturning this year's gay marriage win. Unlike its sister site, however, iProtect has a decidedly youth-oriented outlook, complete with fresh, concerned faces. See that guy above? He's so young! His pensiveness really speaks to us.

And no spry site would be complete without to popular sites like Facebook and MySpace. How hip! How media-savvy! Even the intentionally lower-case "i" seems eager to suck the teet of Apple's ubiquitous iPod and iPhone.

Despite these juvenile measures, iProtect's inherited the tried and largely untrue tactics employed by their right-wing forefathers. We do some dissecting, after the jump. It's scary stuff…

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Now that the press releases from mtvU and the Kaiser Family Foundation have finally stopped flooding the inbox, we can take a look at their joint project PosOrNot.com, the HIV-awareness site where visitors can vote on who they think has HIV. Um, OK? It's like Hot or Not, that brilliant Web 0.9 site that somehow still churns out a few bucks for its founders, except this time you're clicking your mouse not because you find the person attractive or not, but because you spotted a sore on her upper lip or lesions on his mid-thigh. Sure, we're all for encouraging young people to get tested, but what kind of operation solicits people to submit their photos and HIV status for all the world to judge? Oh, and then there's the argument that visitors won't actually invest any emotional attachment to the site, at least not in the way they snapped up Rent CDs.

Rumor has it that Project Runway booted out designer Jack Mackenroth in the fifth episode for developing an HIV Staph infection.

The skin infection apparently made his skin blow up “like the kid from Mask.”

Bravo rejecting an HIV positive contestant is sort of like having an HIV-negative-only gay dance party. Oh wait, that already happened.