Same_Sex_Marriage

Same Sex Marriage In the first year of the century Vermont took a colossal step in creating an equal society for homosexual couples in this nation. In the last decade many sates have tried to fight for equal rights or equal human rights for homosexual couples and have dismally have failed. States have taken a number of different roads, one road that was taken was in the State of Maine was to prevent the approval of sexual orientation to be added to the affirmative action listing of reason one cannot be discriminated upon. In this last election year there was an amendment to add sexual orientation to the list in the State of Maine (Bangor Daily News reports that only 4000 votes separating the amendment this year separate those opposed and those in favor so the amendment does not pass). When the issue of should same sex couples be granted the same rights and legal standing that as heterosexual couples are granted under state law and tax codes. The Vermont Supreme Court attempted to answer this question response written by Jeffrey Amestoy stated the issue of same sex civil unions as “May the State of Vermont exclude same sex couples from the benefits state, civil, sex, same, rights, law, vermont, couples, one, marriage, union, right, court, should, receive, people, equal, benefits, unions, gay, , through, issue, human, opposed, man, because, way, very, under, two, supreme, social, laws, homosexual, current