An Odd Pairing: Ice cream and same-sex “marriage”

By Dwayne Hastings - Sep 1, 2009

It’s a state known more for maple syrup and breathtaking autumn vistas, but today Vermont is in the news for the same-sex “marriages” that are now legal within its borders.

And the state’s premium ice cream maker, Ben & Jerry’s, which doesn’t shy away from showing its taste for liberal social ideologies, is temporarily relabeling its ”Chubby Hubby” flavor confection as “Hubby Hubby” to celebrate the occasion.

A wedding-themed Ben & Jerry’s truck will crisscross Vermont handing out samples of the renamed flavor, which features fudge-covered peanut butter-filled pretzels in a vanilla malt ice cream.

The left-leaning state joins Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa in permitting same-sex couples to marry. A similar law in New Hampshire takes effect Jan. 1, 2010.

The Vermont legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto in April in scrapping the traditional view of marriage in the state.
Both the legislative and judiciary branches of these state governments are rending the nation’s moral fabric, bent on rewriting our country’s social construct” said ERLC President Richard Land.

The Green Mountain State, which is the 49th most populous states in the union, has allowed civil unions since 2000.

A proponent of same-sex “marriage” told the Boston Herald he looked forward to the day “when ‘Hubby Hubby’ is available in supermarkets in all 50 states.”

Join Terry Dorsett, director of Vermont’s Green Mountain Baptist Association, in praying that God would burn “the spiritual mist away from the valleys of Vermont where [he has] invested the last 15 years of [his] life.”

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