Interestingly Dirty Pool

The SO sent me an e-mail which encourages supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage to participate in a meaningless online referendum. From the looks of things, one might forgive supporters for feeling a bit outnumbered.

But wait a minute--what's that at the bottom of the page? In the faintest possible script, in a position where it's so unobtrusive as to be furtive?

"This site maintained by the Defend Marriage Project of United Families Canada"?

What on Earth can this mean? That this whole exercise in e-mocracy is a fake, a fraud, a sham?

Surely not. Would a reputable organisation of Pleistocene Primordial "Conservatives" try to conceal its fingerprints on a "referendum" as a means of influencing the debate?

Why! The very idea!

It's disgusting to think that most of these people object to gay marriage because they think God would have disapproved. Uh, guys? I think somewhere it also says that he doesn't go a bundle on lying . . . Or on bearing false witness?

How about suckering honest people? Is that an approved action if your cause is just?

Fortunately, o thou Picanthropi, it's not up to you. Histories written fifty years from now will talk of the inevitable social changes taking place even as you barricaded yourselves more firmly into your caves.

Stoke your fires well.