Marriage Equality In Vermont Today
Today Vermont began issuing wedding licenses to same-sex couples.
Vermont’s gay marriage law began taking effect at exactly midnight on Tuesday, a little over four months after state lawmakers voted to override Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto of the legislation and added to the number of states who have legalized same-sex marriages.
Some couples have already married. Everyone’s favorite crazy protestors, the Westboro Baptist Church, is on hand in the state’s capital to protest. (The Westboro Church is known for protesting at the funerals of soldiers.)
Congratulations to all the newly-wedded couples in Vermont!
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My condolences to all of the heterosexual couples in the state whose marriages will now magically be compromised and fall apart. That is how it works, right?
And yet another rightwing conservative christianist vote-against-gays-while-being-gay is outed:
“South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer is a closeted anti-gay politician who stands to replace Mark Sanford should Sanford resign or be impeached”
http://www.blogactive.com/2009/08/rumors-confirmed.html
Congratulations to Vermont!
I wish that someone could genetically modify rice so that it would repel those whacko Westboro types when thrown at them.
MediaCurves.com just conducted a study with 851 viewers of an ad by Truth and Hope supporting gay marriages. The results showed that Democrats and Independents reported ‘happiness’ and ‘inspiration’ as the emotions they felt most during the ad while Republicans reported ‘disturbed’ and ‘happiness’ as the emotions they felt most while viewing the ad. The study also found that 83% of Democrats, 77% of Independents, and 58% of Republicans indicated that the ad was effective. For more in-depth results, please visit http://www.mediacurves.com/Culture/J7517-Truth-and-Hope/Index.cfm
Thanks,
Ben
Good post! A lot of people I’ve spoken with have still never heard of this church and it’s activities.
Besides the obvious negativity that this group spreads, the saddest thing is the kids that are involved in this church. They may never get to actually choose their own spiritual path. They’ve been totally brainwashed by this twisted 2 dimensional version of Christianity.
I wrote something up about the church as well and threw up a couple videos of them and a picture of a toddler holding a sign that says “you will eat you babies”
Ridiculous…….
http://doodiepants.com/2009/05/31/westborobaptistchurch/