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!

[ima_sinnic]

1. UGH! and this is the most terrible billboard here in Florida:

Who Rules Amerika??
natvan

--that's about all it says, on a billboard on I-75. I was curious and looked up natvan and it is a white supremacist group, the National Alliance. DOUBLE UGH!!! sheesh, I had to take a long long shower after looking even briefly at their hateful web site.

there are also many anti-abortion billboards along the highway in Florida. dumbasses.

[Shrubhater]

2. Hi, Dean!

:hi: :toast:

I'm sitting here with mom and she says hi, too! That was one highly stupid billboard!

[NightTrain]

3. Whassup, dude?

Gotta admit, I've been uncertain of what, or how much, I should say to you, because I don't know how much your mom has told you about me. Feel free to clue me in, though!