Another group joins the bandwagon

Incensed that the commission that's looking into whether Vermont should allow gay marriages hasn't swallowed their cockamamie bullshit about how gay marriage will pollute marriage, defile women, eat babies, and generally bring about the downfall of western civilization, a bunch of Vermont homophobes have created a new group to... well, warn people that gay marriage will pollute marriage, defile women, eat babies, and generally bring about the downfall of western civilization. Surely with a snappy name like Vermont Marriage Advisory Council, people will have to listen!

Gay marriage opponents who believe a state panel studying the issue has its mind made up went on the offensive Tuesday, announcing the formation of a new group they said will educate Vermonters about the benefits of man-woman marriage.
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The Vermont Marriage Advisory Council will hold forums and drum up interest through a Web site in hopes of enlightening people about the pluses of traditional marriage, especially those relating to children, whose stake in the controversy has been overlooked to date, according to spokesman Stephen Cable, of Rutland.

Wait, what? Let's read that again:

The Vermont Marriage Advisory Council will hold forums and drum up interest through a Web site in hopes of enlightening people about the pluses of traditional marriage, especially those relating to children, whose stake in the controversy has been overlooked to date, according to spokesman Stephen Cable, of Rutland.

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?

It's not bad enough that you have to vomit forth lies about how creating a healthy, stable environment that happens to be led by gay people will somehow damage kids--now you think you're clever for coming up with these lies? You think that you've struck upon a new argument that no-one has ever used before? Every other sentence out of a homophobe's mouth is about how gay marriage will somehow hurt children! (The other half of their sentences are fixated on anal sex--homophobes just can't get enough of anal sex.)

I mean, wow. I don't know whether these people live under rocks, or whether the rocks live inside their heads. They're supposedly forming this group as a protest of the Vermont commission, which they think has already made up its mind. That's because the commission has already dismissed these puerile arguments.

"In the last seven years, since civil unions (began), what we've discovered is that there's a tremendous amount of new information about traditional man and woman marriage and the social goods that it provides.

"Marriage is so important an institution to society that any slight change in the law concerning marriage can have a profound impact on the social goods that it provides," said Cable.

Uh-huh. You didn't seem so concerned about the "profound impact" that "any slight change in the law concerning marriage can have" when you insisted that the laws concerning marriage be changed to exclude gay people.

But since you haven't offered any evidence at all for your homophobic crap, I'm not too worried about these profound impacts.

And on a side-note, I'm pleased to notice that the word "education" in the Boston Globe headline is in scare quotes. Because, honestly, it's not education they're after--it's indoctrination. Despite the fact that they declare on their webpage that their first goal is to make sure that the gay marriage debate "is factually-based", you're certain never to hear the fact that children raised by gay couples are just as healthy as those raised by straight couples. But that kind of factually-based argument they can do without.