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...sign of Harvard's (albeit fading) liberalism that students have criticized Vermont's gay civil union legislation as not going far enough. They claim that gays deserve nothing less than the right to marry. But that belief misses the very significance of Vermont's recent actions. Instead of criticizing the law for being too narrow, we should rejoice that it happened at all. As 22 other states, like California, have moved backward by expressly prohibiting gay marriage, Vermont alone moves forward and only Vermont has done the right thing...
Last December's Baker v. Vermont decision by the Vermont Supreme Court, which granted gays and lesbians the right to have legal unions, moved far quicker than the current of political trends. In the future, historians may even look back on the decision in the same way they view California's 1948 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage. That was a decision so far ahead of its time that the U.S. Supreme Court did not agree with it not for another 20 years. Similarly, although Baker effectively ends decades of discrimination, its idea of granting gay unions legal recognition...
...willing to seriously acknowledge the commitment of two people, going so far as to require dissolution of the civil union contract by a family court, why not just call it marriage, since that is exactly what it is? The word itself is hardly what makes the institution sacred. If Vermont is progressive enough to grant these rights, it should afford the small, yet significant, victory to the gay and lesbian community by allowing them to authenticate their unions...
...animal-crazy" kid she'd always wanted to take her dog to camp. Now in its 11th year, the canine camp for adults and their dogs has three separate one-week sessions in June, July and August, and fees range from $750 to $1,000. They are in different Vermont locales--a college campus, an inn and a former soccer camp--but all offer your dog the chance to spend all day with you and an exuberant pack of humans and dogs. The dog shares your room, and the only place animals aren't allowed is the dining room, where...
While Nancy Bogdanski's three children are still in school this June, she'll leave her husband at home in Durham, Conn., and take off for Vermont with the family's Newfoundland Mickey and Australian shepherd Tucker. "The more you do with a dog," says Bogdanski, "you develop a stronger bond, and you have a deeper appreciation of how intelligent they are." (Telephone...