Word: vermonters
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...ruling for "confirming the dignity" of homosexuals were setting the bar rather low, given the barriers that remain. "It's one thing to say there's a fundamental right to sexual intimacy," observes Harvard law professor Richard Fallon, "and another to say there's a fundamental right to marriage." Vermont's civil-unions law is still a kind of "separate but equal" equivocation; the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy instituted in 1993 has not stopped 9,000 service members from being discharged since then. And in most states, gays do not enjoy the same protection from...
...Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club." HOWARD DEAN, former Vermont Governor, formally announcing his candidacy for President several days after his son was arrested for aiding a break-in at a country club...
...celebrate the aborning presidential candidacy of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, Ben & Jerry's (the quintessential Vermont company) served up a limited-edition "Maple-Powered Howard" sundae last week. (Never mind that the real Ben and Jerry favor Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich.) Other Democrats want in on the eponymous ice-cream war: Joseph Lieberman's staff called TIME to stump for the creation of "Key Limeberman Pie," for "the sweet fellow who wants everyone to get their fair share of the pie," while John Kerry's staff members want a scoop of "Red, White and Blueberry Harley-Riding Kerry...
...Rehnquist does step down, don't expect a bipartisan buddy system to play much of a part in choosing his successor. George W. Bush has already parried a request made this month by the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, for a fuller dialogue between the White House and Democrats on any high-court nominees. And if Sandra Day O'Connor should also retire this year, the struggle over her replacement could be judicial Armageddon, because O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy have been the court's crucial swing votes. If Bush could replace her with...
...come to the conclusion that denying homosexuals the right to marry violated Canada's constitutional commitment to civic equality. What that means is that gay marriage has now arrived in the western hemisphere. And this isn't some euphemism. It isn't the quasi-marriage now celebrated in Vermont, whose "civil unions" approximate marriage but don't go by that name. It's just marriage--for all. Canada now follows the Netherlands and Belgium with full-fledged marital rights for gays and lesbians...