There was some hope when the math was getting too tough and many signatures for the "everything but marriage" Referendum 71 were turning up invalid, fake, or unregistered. But with a tally of 121,486 valid voter signatures, the referendum will be ballot-bound this November. All the while, Vermont is off celebrating the new same-sex marriage law with a bowl of Ben & Jerry's newest gay-friendly flavor, Hubby Hubby. One day. (sigh...) more ›

What with people wanting to put minority rights up to majority vote, we were doing some light R-71-related reading the other day and stumbled upon the Washington Values (sic) Alliance website, on whose logo (modified, on right, for purposes of commentary and mockery) we could spend pages doing a semiotic analysis. There we found "8 Good [sic] Reasons To Defeat Marriage Equality Bills." Here's one of the bullet points that caught our attention: