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...April is shaping up to be a real watershed for the gay-marriage issue. First came the heartland win on April 3 from the Iowa Supreme Court. Then on Tuesday, Vermont's lawmakers defied Governor Jim Douglas with a veto override heard round the world, making their state the nation's first to establish gay marriage by a vote rather than by judicial decree. That same day in Washington, D.C., the city council chose to give legal recognition to gay and lesbian residents who have been married elsewhere...
...Until this week, critics of so-called gay marriage used that same undemocratic argument to try to discredit the new right, which is why the Vermont legislature's April 7 vote to legalize marriage for gay couples mattered so much: it was the first time in U.S. history that a first-branch institution, one that has to face voters in short order, actually granted equal marriage rights. (The California legislature has twice voted for marriage equality, but advocates couldn't muster enough votes to override Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's vetoes). Lesbian and gay Americans, who will celebrate the 40th anniversary...
...very language we use to describe the Vermont vote cheapens the historic nature of the moment. On the afternoon of April 7, the headlines on the websites of several publications-including the Washington Post, Fox News, USA Today, and Chicago Sun-Times-were identical: "Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage." (Read "A Gay-Marriage Solution: End Marriage...
...many ways an opportunity he had been waiting for all his life, a chance to apply on a global stage the lessons he learned as a community organizer in the 1980s. "We are stronger when we act together," he told the Turkish parliament and military on April 6, returning to the theme that defined his visit. At every stop, he delivered this message, offering collaboration and partnership instead of demands of the kind that marked the Bush era. At a press conference in Baden-Baden with Germany's Angela Merkel, a reporter asked Obama what his "grand designs" were...
...freedom fighters, not terrorists, seriously committed to peace." - during a 2002 press conference in northern Sri Lanka, during a cease-fire that later collapsed. It was his first public appearance in 12 years (Itogi Magazine, April...