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07 April 2009

I understand Focus on the Family is putting together a Tsunami Warning service for low-brow states.
posted by stilicho 07 April | 11:20
This is so awesome. Be done with arguments about "only activist judges could enact such depraved laws." This is THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE (with even enough muscle to override the governor's veto)!

Triple yay for VT!
posted by AwkwardPause 07 April | 11:24
Now my dream of getting married in a pool of maple syrup can finally come true!!!

What?
posted by mudpuppie 07 April | 11:36
Four down, 46 to go!
posted by deborah 07 April | 11:50
pups, that sounds like the best wedding ever! just watch out for bears.
posted by crush-onastick 07 April | 11:56
"watch out for bears" - Hey, I resemble that remark!
posted by Ardiril 07 April | 13:03
This is good.
posted by Schyler523 07 April | 13:37
Finally, Ben can marry Jerry.
posted by ColdChef 07 April | 14:19
Hooray!
posted by redvixen 07 April | 15:53
this makes me happy. :D
posted by sakura 07 April | 17:40
Woo woo!
posted by kellydamnit 07 April | 21:23
This has been a nailbiter. First it passed in the Senate. Then the gov said he'd veto it [he's a Republican, but not a dickish one, but jerky in ways like this]. Then he vetoed it. People were thinking there would only be 98 votes to override the veto and we needed 100. Then the day came and one of the 98 wasn't around. Then two more people voted to override. It came down to the last alphabetical vote. I found out about 30 minutes after it happened, when Twitter went wild and then I went and hollered about it on email and facebook and Twitter and now here. Good news, good news.
posted by jessamyn 07 April | 22:57
And the Green Mountain Boys did par-tay.
posted by stilicho 07 April | 23:16
Woo! I love the sound of dominoes falling.
posted by scody 07 April | 23:25
I think of the 4 that allow same-sex marriage, VT was the only one that did so through the legislature and not through the court system.

I am so proud of my state, even if my representative voted against it. He heard from me before the vote because I was called by some out of state group that dialed my number to encourage me to call and tell my rep to support the governor. So I called to tell my rep that I didn't support Governor Sissorhands.

He'll hear from me after the vote too. And I imagine he'll lose re-election. He only won by 44 votes against a much more liberal opponent (he won 2 years before by a small margin ... to a dead woman!) and then had the nerve to say in the papers that everyone he spoke to was against same-sex marriage. Well, Mr Ainsworth, perhaps you should get out more.

Yay Vermont!
posted by terrapin 08 April | 06:28
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