Vermont legalized gay marriage on Tuday after lawmakers overro a veto om the ernor by a wafer-th marg, makg the New England state the fourth the Uned Stat where gays n wed.
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- LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER OR QUESTIONING, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL (LGBTQIA+) RIGHTS
- VERMONT BE 4TH U.S. STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER OR QUESTIONING, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL (LGBTQIA+) RIGHTS
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LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER OR QUESTIONING, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL (LGBTQIA+) RIGHTS. BOSTON (Rters) - Vermont legalized gay marriage on Tuday after lawmakers overro a veto om the ernor by a wafer-th marg, makg the New England state the fourth the Uned Stat where gays n wed.
The vote, ne years after Vermont was first the Uned Stat to adopt a same-sex civil-unn law, also mak the ty state of 624, 000 people the first the natn to troduce gay marriage through legislative actn stead of the urts. “We’ve shown that tth and fairns and jtice and love are more powerful than one man’s veto pen, ” same-sex marriage advote Beth Robson said to cheers om supporters the state pal of Montpelier after Vermont’s Hoe of Reprentativ passed the bill by a 100-49 for picturque foliage, quat dairy farms and a unter-culture spir, Vermont jos New England neighbors Connecticut and Massachetts allowg gay marriage. Iowa legalized gay marriage last week.
Lawmakers next-door New Hampshire and Mae are also nsirg bills to allow gay marriage, puttg New England at the heart of a divisive natnal bate over the issue.
VERMONT BE 4TH U.S. STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
Extend new rights to gay upl on Tuday, too, wh a unanimo Cy Council vote to regnize same-sex marriag performed outsi the district. They got that easily the state Senate, which passed the bill 23-5 earlier on vote me jt four days after Iowa’s Supreme Court stck down a -old law that barred gays om marryg.
The surprise lg, which ma Iowa the first the heartland to allow same-sex marriag, may have fluenced some Vermont lawmakers to change their vote, gay marriage advot said. California briefly regnized gay marriage until voters banned a referendum last group Gay & Lbian Advot & Defenrs, which helped to legalize gay marriage Massachetts and Connecticut, has set a goal of expandg such marriag to all New England stat by 2012.
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