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...whether or not to fly the Confederate battle flag over the state capitol is a question for the people of South Carolina to decide, why isn't whether or not to permit gay marriage a question for the people of Vermont to decide...
Will he in 2025? Almost certainly. In fact, within a decade, gay couples--at least those who live in progressive states--will probably enjoy all the rights, responsibilities and daily frustrations of married life, even if they don't have a marriage license. In Vermont the state supreme court has already ruled that the state must start providing the same benefits to all couples, gay and straight, except the title of marriage itself. Vermont legislators now have the option of granting same-sex couples the M word too. If they do--and it doesn't seem likely--they will ignite...
...this light, the Vermont decision looks more like Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that allowed "separate but equal" facilities for blacks, than Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that finally required meaningful equality. If that analogy stands, it will be another half-century before gay couples can, in all 50 states, stand in the same line for marriage licenses as others...
...University of Vermont placed first with 687.0 points, Middlebury placed second with 640.0 points and host Dartmouth placed third with 620.0 points...
WIDE-OPEN PRIMARIES Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont (3/7), Utah (3/10), Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas (3/14...