Steve Young reports on the battle brewg Vermont over gay marriage. The Vermont Supreme Court led that homosexual upl mt be granted the same rights and benefs as married heterosexual upl. Many lawmakers favor a Domtic Partnership Act. But gay activists say "separate but equal" isn't good enough.
Contents:
- HOW VERMONT'S 'CIVIL' WAR FUELED THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT
- VERMONT BE 4TH U.S. STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY UPL TIE THE KNOT VERMONT
- VERMONT LEGISLATURE OKS GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE VERMONT
- VERMONT LAWMAKERS LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- VERMONT LAWMAKERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE
- VERMONT LAWMAKERS CONSIR GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY GUI TO VERMONT
- VERMONT BE FOURTH STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
HOW VERMONT'S 'CIVIL' WAR FUELED THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT
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It wasn't so long ago that a handful of Vermont legislators a shabby Statehoe mtee room stggled over what to ll their proposal to give marriage-like rights to the state's gay and lbian rints.
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As the Supreme Court nsirs the nstutnal se for gay marriage, we look back at the role Vermont played jt 13 years ago the historic metamorphosis of the issue. The state's ernor, who wore a bulletproof vt that year, lled "the least civil public bate the state over a century." * vermont matrimonio gay *
But the Legislature Montpelier approved An Act Relatg to Civil Unns, and Dean quietly signed later that sprg, makg the first law the natn to extend marriage-like rights of any kd to gay and lbian upl. " Ten stat followed Vermont's early civil unns example and extend to gay upl an array of spoal rights siar to, but short of, marriage.
Most recent polls show that though 31 stat have banned same-sex marriage, a growg majory of Amerins — cludg Print Obama — support marriage law equaly for gay cizens. A Shotgun 'Marriage' Late December 1999, Vermont's high urt jtic cid that two lbian upl and one gay uple were rrect argug that state law nfg marriage to heterosexuals was discrimatory.
The job to figure out fell to the Hoe Judiciary Commtee, whose members clud Lippert, then the only openly gay member of the Legislature, and Republin Rep. At heargs, anti-civil unn activists nounced gays and lbians as abomatns, people who were sure to experience the wrath of God.
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They warned that approvg civil unns would stabilize "tradnal" marriage" and allow outsirs wh a "homosexual agenda" to propel the state down an immoral path of no return. Nancy Sheltra, brought anti-gay, anti-abortn activist Randall Terry, who ran his operatn out of a storeont jt down the street om the Statehoe.
"It was the most tense nversatn ever about the place of gay and lbian people our muni.
They spoke of their fai, some talked about their gay children, and of the Constutn's guarantee of equal protectn unr the law.
VERMONT LEGISLATURE OKS GAY MARRIAGE
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"I knew that Bill [Lippert] was gay, and we'd talked about our fai, you know, Bill's fay, his partner, " Edwards says. "This was a world that was pletely foreign to me, " Dean, the former ernor, said a 2011 terview wh Vermont Public Televisn scribg his own "sual homophobia" lookg back at the civil unns bate.
"I was unfortable wh gay people, " he told terviewer Christopher Graff, "and wh gay marriage. " For Lippert, the opportuny to help change how gay and lbian people were viewed was one for the ag. "I was grateful that I had an opportuny to be the voice or to be the face of all the gay and lbian people that I knew, " he said.
GAY MARRIAGE VERMONT
Vermont's Legislature overled Republin Gov. Jim Douglas' veto and beme the fourth state to legalize gay marriage. The Senate voted 23-5 and the Hoe 100-49 to get the two-thirds need each chamber for a veto overri. Ne years ago, Vermont was the first state the natn to approve civil unns. * vermont matrimonio gay *
" Not once, he says now, did he wish he weren't the only openly gay member of the Legislature attemptg to rry out one of the most difficult jobs the state's history.
How Vermont's 'Civil' War Fueled The Gay Marriage Movement. "You uld have heard a p drop that buildg, and there were a lot of people there that night, " says Sneyd, also openly gay at the time and now news director at Vermont Public Rad and, wh his partner, proprietor of a bed and breakfast.
VERMONT LAWMAKERS LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
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"There remas afoot Vermont prejudice agast gay men and lbians.... That those who stand bi gay and lbian people as their alli... Gay and lbian Vermonters, he said, are your iends, neighbors and relativ who simply want the rights that everyone else has.
No Change/Much Change Vermont weathered the civil unns bate, and the nversatn years later over s gay marriage bill was largely wng of the earlier vrl. "I don't thk anyone who's not teractg wh the var forms of the gay muny will have noticed a huge difference, " he said, "but was never about a difference we would notice. Lippert, however, now one of a half-dozen openly gay Vermont legislators, has another take.
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" Both men are nvced that what Vermont went through — the agonizg nversatns, the vrl and ugls, the tears and the moments of grace — set a new urse for gay rights and ret the nversatn for those that would e after across the natn.
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.
VERMONT LAWMAKERS CONSIR GAY MARRIAGE
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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.
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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. Stat have laws explicly prohibg gay marriage, cludg 29 wh nstutnal amendments rtrictg marriage to one man and one.
VERMONT BE FOURTH STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
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