In the vote Vermont Gay Union maintains its own mind

Vermont, one of the last places in America, which looks like a place. It is mandatory for New England, a country without Disney Disney. Clochers church increase in urban places. Dot localities valleys, on top of each other winding roads and landscape searched with doors. Citizens of the city to collect meetings.On the whole, it seems unlikely a place for a social revolution.

But in the space of four last month, Vermont cries of the head of one of the controversial issues in America, moving to full-screen-throated debate, citizens of citizens on the role of homosexuals in society. And this week, it was Vermont, at the edge of social change in America, the granting of Homosexuals and lesbians the right to marriage in a new form of social contract - civilians and union.

To be sure, many Vermonters are not happy. Many have rented to cast their legislators voted for the civil union account - including their governor, Howard Dean, signed yesterday to identify - and they will replace November.

Even so, the man in Vermont, that not all surprised.

“ It is always received as the first in Vermont,’’said Robert Fusco, the cat in a country Store, Middlesex, population 5000, it personally does not believe the marriage of homosexuals, because “ This is not true. This is not the right way, Adam and Eve meant.”However, he gesticulé with the shoulders, “ Vermont is a liberal state.”

Vermont’s “ vorderster”Liberalismus and its hand in hand - and they go again, far ahead of San Francisco San Francisco. There are over 300 years of them, a long history of a tough defense of personal freedom, which has never hesitated to confront the conventional thinking.

Vermont was a free republic, while other colonies were so far is fighting for independence. Vermont was the first country of origin after 13, to join the European Union. It was the first abolition of property qualifications for voting and the first call for direct election of the governor. Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery. It was the first State to choose a woman Lieutenant Governor. And it is the only state with a Socialist representative in Congress.

Vermont’s hero of the American Revolution, Ethan Allen, said that “ 1781, it was decided determination to defend the independence of Vermont - and not a failure, retirees are coupled with the rugged Green Mountain Boys in dark caves and mountains War with human nature too big.”

Is it any wonder that Vermont is the first concerning the granting of the next thing to gay marriage short of marriage itself?

“ Why Vermont? Why not?”Claimed Lois Farnham, one of the complainants in the case of the Supreme Court in December ruled unconstitutional the state Denial-of-Marriage-Gay benefits and privileges at the opening of the debate, which leads Vermont this week to create homosexual unions bourgeois.

“ I am a Vermonter,’’said Farnham. “ I am proud that I was born here. My family is here and has been designed for generations. Vermont is very independent. It is a Live and let society.”Dit Does Farnham costume, simply because, “ Somebody’s got to be.”

Many Vermonters think their state is, indeed, lead Ethan Allen’s “ war with man Natur”durch the adoption of value against homosexual marriage. “ Plan of God is a woman and a man,’’said Elaine Hoadley of Waterbury. Homosexuality, she said, “ is not a normal or acceptable behavior. I think that is something in the genes when they are born, which is not past.”

And many believe that homosexual marriage real, as is the chemical name, his path quickly.

“ The next step is gay marriage,’’said Tina, a native of 30, something would only their first names. “ I know that in these small towns, Chelsea, Washington, Cambridge, these people are old school and she is sick - many people simply not talk about it. Elderly people especially - people like my father - are really a difficult time with it.”

But others, like George Spontak of Montpelier, Vermont, said the action “ I’m so proud of him. Vermont is a very special place, it is very clear and open and tolerant society. I am very proud to be a Vermonter.”

And so the legislature plowed Vermont. Given that the debate on homosexuality statehouse rampant in the room on Tuesday, marble slabs engraved in the halls outside, quoting Vermont’s storied history of independence and freedom, in a fresh intense Importance:

“ Born of resistance against arbitrary power - their first vote, a declaration on equal human rights - how could it also other people from slavery as Haters - as it can under sympathize with each person and each community claims that the rights of all human beings for their blessings?”

Vermont acted to extend its blessings to each community “, einschließlich”Homosexuell and lesbians, based on benefit-sharing”“ clause of its constitution before the 14 Amendment’s “ gleiche”Schutz clause of the Constitution by the USA almost a century.

Its citizens, be they agree or disagree with the action, are not surprised that their picturesque rural state, is rooted in the 19 century back to the front of a revolution .

“ We do that again, that we have all done our inalienable rights, in accordance with the Constitution’’said Pamela Brady, stopping at Montpelier post. “ I believe we have a precedent for the rest of the country and other countries will soon follow in our footsteps.”

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