Comments on: CBS Poll: support increases for couples http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/08/27/25802 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:57:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Anthony http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/08/27/25802/comment-page-1#comment-77404 Anthony Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:46:56 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=25802#comment-77404 VT's experience with civil unions from 1999-2009 destroys the arguments put forth by NOM and others against SSM. NOM opposes civil unions for all the same reasons it opposes SSM. Yet if any of the dire consequences that NOM predicts had come to pass in VT, support for civil unions would have plummeted. If VT schoolkids were being indoctrinated and taught about gay sex acts, if Christians were losing their jobs and if churches were losing their tax exempt status, the only issue in VT would have been how quickly to amend the constitution to eliminate civil unions. None of that happened. Instead, support for gay marriage rose and 2/3 of the legislature voted for it. Similarly, as can be seen in last week's NY Times article on state-by-state support for SSM, support for gay marriage rose in MA, IA, CT, and NH. If anything that NOM says was remotely true, support would have gone down. At this point, MA schoolkids should be entering their 7th year of gay sex indoctrination, but support goes up. VT’s experience with civil unions from 1999-2009 destroys the arguments put forth by NOM and others against SSM. NOM opposes civil unions for all the same reasons it opposes SSM. Yet if any of the dire consequences that NOM predicts had come to pass in VT, support for civil unions would have plummeted. If VT schoolkids were being indoctrinated and taught about gay sex acts, if Christians were losing their jobs and if churches were losing their tax exempt status, the only issue in VT would have been how quickly to amend the constitution to eliminate civil unions. None of that happened. Instead, support for gay marriage rose and 2/3 of the legislature voted for it. Similarly, as can be seen in last week’s NY Times article on state-by-state support for SSM, support for gay marriage rose in MA, IA, CT, and NH. If anything that NOM says was remotely true, support would have gone down.

At this point, MA schoolkids should be entering their 7th year of gay sex indoctrination, but support goes up.

]]> By: Lindoro Almaviva http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/08/27/25802/comment-page-1#comment-77242 Lindoro Almaviva Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:31:35 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=25802#comment-77242 <i><blockquote>NOM has already proven in races from New York to California that it is a particularly bad idea for Republicans to support gay marriage. </i></blockquote> Oh, thank Jesus! I thought that she was going to say who their Summer tour proved unequivocally how people across this nation support denying marriage rights to gay people. Hi Maggie! Yep, that was still a failure. No, you have not proved anything. Wait, I take that back, you do have proved something: Your organization is a complete failure and your ideas will be extinct sooner than the humpback whale.
NOM has already proven in races from New York to California that it is a particularly bad idea for Republicans to support gay marriage.

Oh, thank Jesus! I thought that she was going to say who their Summer tour proved unequivocally how people across this nation support denying marriage rights to gay people.

Hi Maggie! Yep, that was still a failure. No, you have not proved anything. Wait, I take that back, you do have proved something: Your organization is a complete failure and your ideas will be extinct sooner than the humpback whale.

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