From the “sore loser” files, per the Burlington Free Press:

The Rev. Craig Bensen said the organization he helped found to oppose the same-sex marriage lawsuit and legislative initiative – Take It to the People – was never anti-gay.

“Our focus was the marriage question and the right way to deal with it,” said the minister of the Cambridge United Church. He’s still pushing for what he calls a fairer way for all Vermonters to weigh in on this core societal question.

Here’s the deal, and it’s a pretty simple thing: Vermonters have had nearly a decade to weigh in on this question.  They will have another election in just over a year which allows them to voice their satisfaction or displeasure with the decisions made by their legislators with respect to this issue.  If this is truly a deal-breaker for Vermonters who oppose same-sex marriage, then it should be easy to get enough legislators elected to vote to change the laws back the way they were before this session.  But that, clearly, is not enough for Benson:

Bensen hasn’t given up his quest to allow Vermonters to speak on the question of same-sex marriage, but it is now part of a broader strategy to give Vermonters a greater voice in government.

The new group, letvermontvote.org, wants a constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman, which would reverse current law.

The group also advocates a citizen initiative process so Vermonters could speak at the ballot box on issues as important as this marriage question, Bensen said: “We think that would be a good option for Vermont citizens to have.”

What Benson is asking for is, in effect, mob rule.  He wants the ability to rile up voters who are easily able to be manipulated on the emotional level to enact his own agenda, regardless of how much support it has statewide.  It’s easy to get people up in arms over an emotional issue, especially if they’re ready to believe whatever lies you tell them in order to reinforce their existing prejudices.  Benson’s organization wants 5% of the population to be able to initiate a ballot referendum.  We might as well open the floodgates then, because 5% of the population would sign referenda suggesting that Barack Obama is actually a Kenyan.  You could probably get 5% of the population to sign a referendum to the effect that Thomas Jefferson was a Kenyan.  

Allowing 5% of the population to push their agenda on a statewide ballot referendum is only useful if your objective is to push minority rule through shouting over the rest of the population.  It is not Democracy.  It is chaos.  In the presence of chaos, anyone with a sufficient number of useful idiots at their disposal can hold a lot more power than they should.