Stop Gay Marriage; Make the World Safe for Kittens

As Janet has rightly (though perhaps slightly tongue-in-cheek-ishly) pointed out, YouTube is a cultural phenomenon. Ok. I'm a bit addicted.
And laughing various body parts off. Found this linked from Dispatches from the Culture Wars...

Just think of the kittens.

Ok. Now that the me who finds highly inappropriate things funny has stopped tittering, let's take this from the English Prof. stance: how well can humor be used to demonstrate perceived flaws in an argument? This clip works with the common argument that allowing gay marriage will lead to the destruction of society and derives the bulk of its humor from exploiting the tenuous causal link between the legalization of gay marriage nd social chaos. Although I've never thought of purple pseudo-phalluses as rhetorical devices (come to think of it, I've never really thought of purple pseudo-phalluses), this isn't really too far removed from Swift's "Modest Proposal"-- using shock value (eat children? exploding kittens?!), an overblown response to a situation, showing off something, I think, about who we are as a society.
But please, no exploding kittens.