What else did we expect?

Fuck ... it was so close. So very, very close.

Then of course a self-righteous bastard had to step in and screw everyone over.

Not that one didn't see it coming.

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Gov. Jim Douglas said today that he will veto a gay-marriage proposal if it passes the Legislature, the first time he has signaled such an intent before final legislative action on a bill.

Speaking at an afternoon news conference, the Republican governor said that he thought Vermont's first-in-the-nation civil unions law, passed in 2000, provided sufficient rights to same-sex couples and that he believed "marriage should remain between a man and woman."

I'm sorry, but we don't give a stinking shit what you believe! NO-ONE does! I so fucking HATE IT when assholes like this primitive asshat decide to screw everyone and their hopes & goals just because THEY don't think it's right. You may be the governor, but that does not make you the center of the world, you asshole. It's your OBLIGATION to do what's right for the people, not for you. Or is that a concept that's alien to the entirety of the fucking Republican Party?

There should truly be a law against this sort of stuff – something that says like 'once enough people of a majority vote in one direction, no vetoes are allowed' or something.

So because the great Jim Douglas is a retarded fascist imbecile, Vermont will not legalize same-sex marriage after all.

What a truly horrible letdown. And here I was beginning to get my hopes up that another US state was about to elevate itself from the stinking cesspit that holds the others and allow people to marry regardless of their sexuality.