Vermont legalizes gay marriage

[rm]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/07/us/AP-GayMarriage-Vermont.html

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage -- and the first to do so with a legislature's vote.

The Legislature voted Tuesday to override Gov. Jim Douglas' veto of a bill allowing gays and lesbians to marry. The vote was 23-5 to override in the state Senate and 100-49 to override in the House. Under Vermont law, two-thirds of each chamber had to vote for override.

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[onemildrat.livejournal.com]

A personal tidbit from me -- the original lawsuit which started this whole thing was launched from the Middlebury offices of Langrock, Sperry and Wool. At that same time I owned a store in Middlebury whose lease was handled by Langrock. So this almost literally began in my backyard.

Extra tidbit, ironic -- Jim Douglas is orignally from Middlebury.

I should also note that Vermont is the one state never visited by George Bush and the first to go for Obama in 2008. So, yeah, we bad.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Pardon this ignorant foreigner's provincial ignorance, but isn't one of your Senators an openly social democratic independent?
You're bad! You're bad!
(Now I has ear-worm.)

[onemildrat.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's Bernie Sanders.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Vermont is bad ass!