Ethics

Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage

By Ed Brayton

Vermont has legalized gay marriage and it didn't take a court ruling to do it. The state legislature voted overwhelmingly in favor it, enough to override the veto of Governor Jim Douglas.

Vermont on Tuesday became the fourth state to legalize gay marriage -- and the first to do so with a legislature's vote.

The House recorded a dramatic 100-49 vote, the minimum needed, to override Gov. Jim Douglas' veto. Its vote followed a much easier override vote in the Senate, which rebuffed the Republican governor with a vote of 23-5.

Now, of course, all marriages between heterosexuals in that state will become meaningless, parents will stop raising their children and men will begin marrying box turtles.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).