Word: vermonters
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...following weekend Vermont and Dartmouth skate at Meehan Auditorium, providing Brown’s stifling defense with another chance to shut down Dartmouth’s potent forward combination of Hugh Jessiman and Lee Stempniak...
Brown will go 3-1 over its last four games, with a win at St. Lawrence, a loss at Clarkson and two home wins versus Dartmouth and Vermont...
...rights lawyers, the language was gratifying. They have tried to persuade Americans for years that they were not arguing for a "special right" called gay marriage but rather for simple equality. Exclusion from marriage was discrimination, they argued--even if it was a cushy, Vermont-syrup discrimination. For those attorneys, civil unions were, as the court itself said, a "type of labeling." The Massachusetts lawyers wanted no half measures: "It was always about marriage," says lead attorney Mary Bonauto of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders...
...years. And the real thing that started to make the big difference is when we started to believe it could happen," says Wolfson, 47, who now runs his own project called Freedom to Marry. "And once that happened--after Hawaii, after this was being debated in California and Vermont--we saw a surge of people who had not been particularly active in the movement now come into it." High-profile losses in California and other states were eventually followed by a halfway win in Vermont and then, of course, a full victory last week in Massachusetts...
...congestive heart failure. (She passed away in 1990.) During that period, he began volunteering in homeless shelters, where he says he saw the consequences of family breakdown, including welfare dependency and youth crime. "And it's about that time that we began to see the court activity in Vermont," he recalls. "Already we had seen it in Hawaii." Daniels was deeply troubled by the prospect of gay marriage, he says, "because of the unique combination of gifts that the two genders bring to the raising of children. The family--defined as built on the union of male and female--from...