One infuriating billboard!

[NightTrain]

I saw it today along I-84 in Hartford, CT. The billboard is sponsored by the Family Institute of Connecticut, or "NAMBLA."

Now, I don't know about you, but since the so-called "Christian Right" has managed to co-opt the word "family," any time I see that word in the name of an organization, it makes me suspicious. And the Connecticut Family Institute is no exception!

The billboard encourages those driving by it to "support traditional marriage," from which I inferred that the FIC wants a wife to legally be the property of her husband and that people may only marry those of the same race. And of course, that same-sex marriage makes Jesus cry!

What I found particularly irritating was the billboard's assertion that "6,000 people attended the Rally for Marriage" on the steps of the state capital in Hartford in early February. What the FIC doesn't tell you is that it hired a dozen or so busses to bring people to Hartford that Sunday from all over the bloody state! How many people do you think that rally would have attracted if they'd had to drive to Hartford from an hour or more away?

That same day, 800+ people went to a church in Hartford to attend a counter demonstration in support of same-sex marriage. A local group called Loves Makes a Family hastily planned and pulled off the rally something like a week-and-a-half before the "Rally for Marriage" occurred. People came from as far away as Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island to show their support for same-sex marriage. And LMaF didn't have to hire busses to get those people to attend!

So there you have it, folks: a rally against same-sex marriage was held outside on a bitterly cold day (which was sandwiched between two warm ones). Meanwhile, those of us who support same-sex marriage got to do our thing in a nice, warm building. And in a house of worship, no less!

All I can say to the religious right is: FIC you!

[rockymountaindem]

1. You think that's bad, try this

From a billboard outside a Baptist church in Denver:

"The Jews killed Jesus Christ, period".

It was defaced the next day, thankfully. I think someone squeezed the word "not" in there. They were forced to remove the billboard amidst public criticism.

[Vickers]

2. Seriously: wouldn't arranged marriages solve a lot of problems?

:P

[DrWeird]

3. "Big Bang? Yeah, right!" -God

From florida, don't know if it's still up

[Bill McBlueState]

4. I've seen that one, too.

morons.

I was just reading that Georges Lemaitre, who first proposed the Big Bang Theory, was a Jesuit. He was criticized at the time because his theory implied a "creation moment" unlike the steady-state models in vogue at the time. If the fundies would do *two damn minutes* of research, they would know these things.

[Warpy]

5. The ultra-Cathoolic AG of NM was just slapped down

...on the issue of unilaterally banning gay marriage here. Alas, the temporary stay against the clerk of court in Bernalillo who is brave enough to fight the stupidity and issue licenses was allowed to stand pending a meeting of the full state supreme court.

There is no legal basis in this state for denying them, so stay tuned for more developments.

Civil disobedience of bad law and stupid tradition works. Practice it whenever and wherever you can.

[NewJeffCT]

6. where on 84? And, only 6,000?

Heck, we had several hundred thousand in downtown Hartford after UConn beat Duke in 1999! And, I think it was something like 500K to protest the income tax instituted by Weicker?