VT. gay marriage bill passes House & Senate; Rep. Governor will veto [video]
”The promise of full equality of the marriage statutes that we held out in 2000 by creating civil unions, we believe, has not been fulfilled.”
Representative William Lippert, an openly gay Democrat, who took part in debate about Vermont’s current gay civil unions still not equating marriage as was mandated by that’s state’s Supreme Court. The new same-sex marriage bill passed the Senate easily 26-4, and just passed in the House 95-52. However, the Governor Jim Douglas, a Republican, has consistently stated that he will veto the bill. His alleged reason: because of the economy. (Reuters)
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