Equality moves one step closer to reality.
The Vermont House Judiciary Committee voted 8-2 Tuesday morning to approve a same-sex marriage bill.
Green Mountain College Shows Its (Rainbow) Colors
Marriage Equality: As Vermont As Maple Syrup.
Guest Post: Respecting A Minority
Does the story of Adam & Eve mean God intended incest as the ideal family model?
Progress is a measure of the number of revisions that follow the word “is”…
“Marriage is the legally recognized union of one man and one woman two people.”
A Big Step Forward
From Vermont Freedom to Marry’s H.178 Civil Marriage Bill: “Fifty-nine members of the Vermont House have introduced a bill to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from legal marriage, while affirming the constitutional right of clergy people to refuse to perform marriages against their religious beliefs….With fifty-nine co-sponsors on this bill, we’re just 16 votes [...]
Vermont Gov. Opposes Equal Rights
From the Rutland Herald’s Douglas opposes bill on marriage: “Gov. James Douglas said Thursday he would oppose legislation allowing same-sex marriages, saying the state’s civil unions law is adequate and that lawmakers should be focusing on the state’s money problems….Both [State Sen.] Campbell and Beth Robinson, a Middlebury-based lawyer who chairs the Vermont Freedom to [...]
Cali Supreme Court to Review Prop. 8
From LA Times’ Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban considered by California Supreme Court: “The California Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 on Wednesday to review legal challenges to Proposition 8, the voter initiative that restored a ban on same-sex marriage, but refused to permit gay weddings to resume pending a final decision.”
WTF, California?
When it comes to gay marriage, I expect it to be banned down south, but et tu California?
I Love Good News
From NY Times’ Connecticut Ruling Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage: “The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, reversing a lower court decision that had concluded that the civil unions legalized in the state three years ago had offered the same rights and benefits as marriage. With the [...]
Please Let This Be A Floodgate
From the NY Times’ New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere: “In a directive issued on May 14, the [New York] governor’s legal counsel, David Nocenti, instructed the agencies that gay couples married elsewhere ‘should be afforded the same recognition as any other legally performed union.’”
