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Vermont Governor Signs Bill Creating Marriage-Like 'Civil
Unions'

April 26, 2000

MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) -- Gov. Howard Dean signed a
first-in-the-nation law Wednesday granting gay couples
nearly all of the benefits of marriage.

"I think it is a courageous and powerful statement about who
we are in the state of Vermont," the Democrat said. "I also
believe that this legislation speaks to the heart of this
state, and certainly to my heart."

The legislation creating marriage-like "civil unions"
reached the governor's desk shortly before lunch time, just
a day after the House gave its final approval. And by the
time of a 2 p.m. news conference, he had already signed it
out of view of TV cameras, photographers and reporters.

Dean said he signed the bill privately because he did not
want the ceremony to be a triumphal party by supporters of
the law. Instead, he said, it was time for the state to
begin healing.

"In politics, bill-signings are triumphal," he said. "They
represent overcoming of one side over another. These
celebrations, as the subject of the matter of the bill, will
be private."

The law will allow gay couples to form civil unions
beginning July 1. That will entitle them to all of the
hundreds of rights and responsibilities available to married
couples under Vermont law in such areas as taxes,
inheritance and medical decision-making.

Other states will probably not recognize Vermont civil
unions, and such status will not entitle gay couples to any
the benefits available to married couples under federal law
in areas such as taxes and immigration.

Nevertheless, no state has gone further than Vermont is
giving gay couples something approximating marriage.

The bill came about after the Vermont Supreme Court
unanimously ruled in December that gay couples were being
unconstitutionally denied the benefits of marriage. The
court left it up to the Legislature time to decide whether
to let gays marry or to create some kind of domestic
partnership.

The legislation passed after strong debate in which
opponents argued that homosexuality is "against natural
law." Opponents have warned that they will make their anger
known at the polls in November when members of the
Legislature are up for re-election.

Under the law, gay couples will be able to go to their town
clerks for licenses and have their unions certified by a
judge or member of the clergy. Breakups will be handled in
Family Court, just as divorces are, although they will be
called dissolutions.

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Several months after this bill became law in Vermont, state
Representative, Nancy Sheltra, launched a counterattack. She
insisted that the law had to be repealed, before it spread
to other states as well. Sadly, today, nine years later, we
can see the devastating effect that this law had on the USA.
As I write this series update in April 2009, "gay marriage"
has been, currently is, or will be, legal in five American
states. Consider the following table:

Massachusetts   Nov 2003 gay "marriage" legalized
California      Jun 2008 gay "marriage" legalized
Connecticut     Oct 2008 gay "marriage" legalized
California      Nov 2008 Proposition 8 defeats gay "marriage"
Iowa            Apr 2009 gay "marriage" legal as of 04-27-09
Vermont         Sep 2009 gay "marriage" legal as of 09-01-09

Please go to part three for the continuation of this series.


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WHEN SIN IS NO LONGER A SIN : PART THREE

Published On : June 14, 2001

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Last Updated : April 22, 2009

American States Which Now Provide "Civil Unions", Aggressive
Two-Pronged Legal Strategy Of The Gay And Lesbian Community,
Bill Clinton - Destroys US Morality, Gay Comic Book Heroes,
"Corpus Christi" And Ungodly New York, Jimmy Carter Supports
Gay Priests, Blind Leading The Blind, Gay And Lesbian Legal
Battles, America Is A Divided Nation, Demonized Because Of
Our Christian Beliefs, Gays And Lesbians Reverse The Truth,
Depth Of Their Deception, Our Children Have Been Targeted



In addition to the above states, other American states offer
some form of "civil unions" to gay and lesbian couples. These
currently include Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Oregon and Washington state. The District of Columbia
does also. But within three years, by 2012, gay and lesbian
militants have every intention of making gay "marriage" legal
in all of the New England states, and they have already put
the legal machinery in motion.

What particularly annoys me about these developments, is that
these gay and lesbian militants have, as their modus operandi
in the political realm, decided to use a two-pronged attack.
In other words, rather than taking the issue straight to the
people through state referendums, so that the people can make
the decision, they have actually been obtaining victories by
circumventing the will of the majority of the people. What I
mean by this, is that they are going straight to state court
systems, or else to state legislatures, with absolutely no
input from regular voters in each state. Obviously, they've
discovered that it is a lot easy to convince state judges, or
a state legislature, instead of a state's entire population.
What they are doing is not illegal, but it is most certainly
sly, to say the least.

While the passage of the aforementioned 2,000 Vermont "civil
union" law, as well as other laws legalizing gay "marriage"
have been very public events which have stirred up a lot of
heated debate on both ends of the political and religious
spectrum, it is important that you realize that these are not
the only areas where the gay and lesbian community has been
busily implementing its sick agenda. In fact, once you have
read the remainder of this series, you will easily come to
understand that they no doubt prefer that you do not realize
the full extent of their evil program for the psychological
readjustment of American society, a program which is meant to
convince us that their sin is no longer a sin.

This series would not be complete if I did not dedicate at
least a few words to mentioning one man in particular, who
has been extremely instrumental in promoting and advancing
the gay and lesbian cause. For a period of eight years, that
is, from the very first week that he entered the Oval Office
of the United States of America, this man, motivated by his
wayward, ungodly, liberal beliefs, contributed greatly to
the destruction of the moral fiber of Christian America. He
did this by his own poor, personal example when he chose to
have an affair with Monica Lewinsky and then lied about it;
he did this when he chose to support the right to abortion;
and he most certainly did this when he opened the floodgates
to homosexual and lesbian rights within America. This is the
very same man who in September of 2,000, five months after
the Vermont "civil union" bill had been passed, said:

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"More and more people are identifying with our common
humanity. Increasingly, society is moving to higher and
higher levels of decency and justice."

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Of course, that quote was spoken by none other than former
US president, William Jefferson Clinton. "Higher and higher
levels of decency"? Based upon exactly whose standard, Mr.
Clinton? Certainly not God's! The gay and lesbian community
could not have asked for a better defender of their cause,
or a better president than Bill Clinton; because this sinful
man gave them the green light. He basically told them that
it was safe to come out of the closet now, and to openly
flaunt their sins before the American public; and as we all
know, that is exactly what they have been doing ever since.
Not only have gays and lesbians been coming out of their
closet for years now, but they have been fighting tooth and
nail, in order to achieve greater and greater rights, which
has now culminated in a legal status, which they believe
will give them greater respectability before the American
public; but what about God? Do you think that He respects
you more simply because you have legalized your sin before
the eyes of men? I think not! His laws are clear, and you
are knowingly breaking them!


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