One more state heading the right way.
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johnridleyVeto rebuffed; gay marriage OK in Vermont
Hopefully they will learn from Michigan and other states hard lessons - when the inevitable move to amend the state constitution to redefine marriage or whatever comes, don't sit on your laurels - mobilize and get it kicked out, as many times as necessary.
(text via Detroit Free Press)
The state House Tuesday recorded a dramatic 100-49 vote, the minimum needed, to override Gov.
Jim Douglas’ veto. Its vote followed a much easier override in the Senate, which rebuffed the Republican governor with a vote of 23-5.
Hopefully they will learn from Michigan and other states hard lessons - when the inevitable move to amend the state constitution to redefine marriage or whatever comes, don't sit on your laurels - mobilize and get it kicked out, as many times as necessary.
(text via Detroit Free Press)
The state House Tuesday recorded a dramatic 100-49 vote, the minimum needed, to override Gov.
Jim Douglas’ veto. Its vote followed a much easier override in the Senate, which rebuffed the Republican governor with a vote of 23-5.
Vermont was the first state to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples and joins Connecticut, Massachusetts and Iowa in giving gay couples the right to marry. In those other states, approval of gay marriage came from the courts.
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Date: 2009-04-09 02:16 pm (UTC)I heard an NPR bit on gays in the military a few weeks back, and the people they were talking to said that the younger people in the military had no problem at all with it, it was the old fogeys that were dug in against it, and that as soon as they died off, it'd stop being a problem.
I don't think that discrimination will every totally stop, there are always morons looking for someone different than them so that they can invent a way in which they feel superior (since that sort of person is rarely ACTUALLY superior in any way). But hopefully in the not-too-distant future, such people will be as generally scorned as racists are now.