When the Bible Enters the Fray

At 2:01 a.m. on July 1st, gay and lesbian couples in Vermont became eligible to receive the same state law protections and responsibilities that are available to spouses in a marriage, thanks to the state’s recently passed Civil Unions bill. The first civil unions were performed that day. For gay and lesbian couples, the fight for this legislation has been long, involving an initial suit heard in 1997 in Vermont’s Chittenden County Superior Court; a subsequent appeal of the Superior Court’s negative decision to the state’s Supreme Court; the decision by the Supreme Court in December 1999 requiring that […]