"Hubby Hubby": Ben & Jerry's Shows Gay Marriage Support With New Flavor

To show support for a new Vermont law legalizing gay marriage, the iconic ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's has renamed its popular "Chubby Hubby" flavor. The new flavor, which Ben & Jerry's is producing in partnership with Freedom To Marry, will be called "Hubby Hubby."

For the next 30 days, Hubby Hubby will be available across Vermont. The product's packaging will feature two men in tuxedos getting married. Here's the Boston Herald:

"In the meantime, a wedding-themed Ben & Jerry's truck will hand out free "Hubby Hubby" across Vermont today. Scheduled stops include the Vermont Capitol, where lawmakers passed a gay-marriage law that takes effect today.
Ben & Jerry's six Vermont ice cream parlors also plan to sell special "Hubby Hubby" sundaes during September."

Read the Boston Herald's piece here. or check out Ben & Jerry's announcement.

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[LaHenche]

Extra chocolatey with extra nuts.

[CarbonCreditSeller]

Darn; now I have to switch to Haagen-Daas.

[mainemomma]

How can you be a phobe about ice cream?

[2grainsofsalt]

There is no such thing as "Haagen-Daas"

[deasler]

Part 3: Look at us already! Divorce! Divorce!! Divorce!!! We need to turn this trend around, by doing everything we can to help couples know that their marriage has a special place in our community of human beings. We need to give them the benefits of a UNIQUE position in our human family. Let's start strengthening couples for the hard job that faces them with more and better benefits for THEM. Let's give them an edge! For the CHILDREN. Thank you for having an open mind enough to read my long winded essay. Please have an open heart as well. I certainly do as do many, many others who have great sympathy for those that experience hatred, but truly feel that changing our definition of marriage is not the solution to intolerance. God Bless you all. Pax Christi.

[Jaywalkker]

I'm curious, isn't the definition of marriage as one man and one woman a little arbitrary? Marriages through the ages were financial compacts. Chelsea Clinton's going price was placed at 40 goats and 20 cows. If you were higher up the ladder, your marriage may have been about politics or foreign policy. What about polygamy? That was the early Judeo model. Would you advocate what "used to be" the traditional meaning of marriage for hundreds of years, marrying off 10, 11, 12 year old girls to grown men? Deny it all you want, but there have been cultures that allowed for open homosexuality or even civil union style compacts.

Marriage is a legal contract, which is why same sex marriage won't slippery slope us into beastiality and pedophilia, animals and children are not legally cognizant of their actions therefore cannot enter into a civil union.

[mainemomma]

Exactly. These folks that are trying to fight marriage equality are confusing a legal contract with a religious preference. If they want to belong to a church that doesn't has a specific definition of marriage, more power to them! That kind of church doesn't appeal to me tho.

I just dont get how being loving and devoted is wrong. To ignore the hypocracy of 'opposite' marriage in terms of divorce, infidelity, abuse... is sticking your head in the sand. For gay couples that marry, they are facing a whole lot of challanges that straight folks never dreamed of. If a couple goes thru all of the nonsense to finally get married... they will probably have a better chance than most of staying hitched. More power to them.

[deasler]

Part 2: Marriage, when defined as the union of a man and woman for the purpose of procreation, is the most fundamental human social unit. The integrity of our entire civilization depends on this building block. Family Itself, in fact, flows from this union. Furthermore, we depend on parents to rear and educate their children. No other institution can ever provide the love that a child needs. Humanity needs successful marriages. You see, we don't have to make it a religious or moral issue in order to see the Truth. We don't have to condemn gays. We don't have to fear. But we can't let an aversion to authority (most people don't like someone else telling them what to do) cause us to "tolerate" the collapse of something vital to our very survival as a race (that's the Human race - marriage transcends even all ethnic divisions). You might say that giving benefits to a different definition of marriage won't take away from the current definition. But if any others (and the definition of marriage will become looser and looser in this country, as has already begun, until it is merely a financial contract between two or even more people) can get the same benefits, how would they be special? Or a benefit at all?

[FreakOfNurture]

Excuse me, but marriage already IS a mere contract between two people. The church has nothing to do with it, which is why any justice of the peace can perform the ceremony.

And who are you to say that our relationships aren't special?

Did you really just say that only straight people deserve "special benefits"?
Yeesh!

[Leo Mauler]

I'm a little confused about this idea that marriage is defined in terms of procreation. After all, the standard definition of "man and woman" has permitted billions of sterile men and sterile women to marry (sometimes even to a sterile partner), not to mention permitting the new marriages of menopausal women who may have been able to procreate in the past but certainly cannot now.

If two people who can't have kids together should not be allowed to get married, then sterile people should not be allowed to get married, because they will not be able to have kids with their spouse.

I don't see any ballot measures trying to remove the right of marriage from sterile heterosexuals, as would be the case if anti-gay-marriage people were being sincere about their claim that "marriage is for procreation". Clearly this is just more smoke and mirrors, yet another marriage double standard, from the anti-gay-marriage mob. Homosexuals can't marry because "they can't procreate with other homosexuals", but sterile heterosexuals can marry in spite of the fact that "they can't procreate with other heterosexuals."

Since gay married couples could adopt, the same as any straight married couple where one or both partners are sterile, the "integrity of our entire civilization" is not "threatened" by gay marriage. Gay couples could be like any sterile heterosexual and "rear and educate children."

[Leo Mauler]

Also, thanks to heterosexual marriage, our entire system is based around a marriage linking exactly two people.

Changing marriage to mean "two or more people getting married" may cause the "collapse of something vital to our very survival" as a species. Gay marriage proponents accurately point out that a marriage license impacts more than just name changes and property rights. Making polygamy legal means so much extra work for all levels of government that workaholic legislators would be annoyed by the prospect.

For example, in a two-person marriage, the children are considered to be the children of both spouses. In a divorce of a polygamous marriage, how will financial support and child custody be handled in the marriage?

In a four-person marriage, are the children still the children of all four spouses? If so, then imagine one wife, who had all the biological children in the marriage, divorcing from the marriage, along with another wife without biological children. Does the ex-wife who has no biological children in the marriage still deserve child custody rights? If the childless ex-wife doesn't have custody, does she owe child support to the full custody wife?

And then there's bigamy: does a man marrying four wives have to tell them about each other? Prostitution becomes meaningless, as a man can marry a new "temporary wife" for the evening.

[deasler]

Part 1: Your view point is one that concerns me more than any other. You are not perhaps too personally invested in this issue; you are a heterosexual, spouse, and parent. Yet you argue passionately for the "equal" rights of homosexuals to "marry." Your argument hinges on the question of "why not" You don't see any reason why not. But I pose a question to you. Why should ANYONE receive the lawful benefits of marriage? Why does society (almost) universally throughout history, throughout the world provide a special place for the relationship between a man and woman commonly known as "marriage?" Why should that relationship have any difference, for instance, with that of two best friends who are not romantic but who love each other and decide to live together in a financial partnership? If you have not realized what is very special about your own marriage, here is a potentially (if you grasp the true gravity) life changing revelation. You and your spouse together have brought forth children. I'm not trying to belittle you by stating the obvious, rather, I hope you see your everyday life in a whole new light. It is through the act of proCREATION that the human race is perpetuated, that we may all continue living, loving, laughing, and crying in this incredible, wonderful world.

[Which]

So you're saying that my marriage of 15 years is of no value to society and should curry no favor with the government, insurance companies et al. because my husband and I chose not to procreate? How very strange.

[DiGil]

Oh yeah...and women who have had Hysterectomies should be shunned and not allowed to marry, because they provide no benefit to society. Pure crazy-sauce.

[MissKittyx3]

This is the whole story right from the Ben and Jerry website: I think they should make it permanent though instead of just doing it for 30 days!

To show support for a new Vermont law legalizing gay marriage, the iconic ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's has renamed its popular "Chubby Hubby" flavor. The new flavor, which Ben & Jerry's is producing in partnership with Freedom To Marry, will be called "Hubby Hubby."

For the next 30 days, Hubby Hubby will be available across Vermont. The product's packaging will feature two men in tuxedos getting married. Here's the Boston Herald:

"In the meantime, a wedding-themed Ben & Jerry's truck will hand out free "Hubby Hubby" across Vermont today. Scheduled stops include the Vermont Capitol, where lawmakers passed a gay-marriage law that takes effect today.
Ben & Jerry's six Vermont ice cream parlors also plan to sell special "Hubby Hubby" sundaes during September."

Check out The Ben & Jerry’s press release.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/benjerry/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090901005358&newsLang=en

And here are some other links that might be of interest.

Ben & Jerry's - Fun and Games
http://www.benjerry.com/fun/

Freedom To Marry Partners with Ben & Jerry's!
http://www.freedomtomarry.org/ben_and_jerrys.php

Contacts
Ben & Jerry’s
Sean Greenwood, 802-846-1500
Grand Poobah of P.R.
Sean.Green­wood@benje­rry.com

[Tyler Brown]

Totally not my favorite flavor (by any means) but them hippie ice creamers get more kudos for this move.

[norepublicanleftbehind]

Love these guys!!!

[Ramzi Zacharia]

why only in Vermont? would love to get it for memorabilia sake

[Tyler Brown]

Marriage equality just came into effect in VT, so I'm almost 100% sure that this is to commemorate the event. It's easier to do it this way than do that across the whole country and run into a ton of boycotts and controversy in conservative markets.

[Aldo Rodriguez]

They were planning on giving their flavor another name in support of gay-marriage but they decided not to use it in fear of infringement of copyright naming rights: " Chock Full O' Nuts "

[doglove]

DOG bless Vermont!

[brklynivn]

Send some to Carrie Prejean as a gift.....

[wilray]

Why? Did her implants spring a leak?

[Jimboy17]

Come on. I'm a gay man, and I am having a helluva time resisting this one. It is just...so.­..deliciou­s!

[truthartbeauty]

how nice to know there are light hearted rational people out there, such a good change from the rabid ignorance and homophobia we have to hear about so much.

[sarimn00]

I've never heard of Chubby Hubby. I love Ben and Jerry's, though. They've got some of the best ice cream.