Montpelier, VT (AHN) - "Vermont's gay marriage law began taking effect at exactly midnight on Tuesday, a little over four months after state lawmakers voted to override Gov. Jim Douglas' veto of the legislation and added to the number of states who have legalized same-sex marriages.It'll be too much of a zoo, and though you can probably hear the commotion, and perhaps see it from my house, I'm 5 miles away at work. Besides, I have no video equipment to tape and then share the business with you so we'll just let it happen.
Couples and gay advocates will be marking the day with celebrations, one of which is a wedding reception in Essex that will benefit the Vermont People with AIDS Coalition and other groups.
Rallies will be held by members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church at the capital city, Montpelier, to protest the new marriage law, but one of the state's leading same-sex marriage groups, the Vermont Freedom to Marry, has urged supporters not to engage with the demonstrators, saying doing so 'would only lend relevance and newsworthiness' to their opponents." (September 1, 2009 7:48 a.m. EST)
Parsha “Noach+” teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
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We began the reading of Parsha Noach last week, both with the story of his
genealogy, the nature of the world at that time, and the Flood itself. But
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personally I'm surprised polygamy is illegal and these alternative lifestyles are becoming legalized more and more.
ReplyDeleteThe arguments I hear against polygamy are all non polygamy related issues (so far). And other's such as who get's the kids in a divorce and so on are issues that afflict monogamy today as well.
I'm very curious why polygamy is bad and these other lifestyles are good. Makes no sense in a government that's supposed to be neutral on stuff like this