Civil Revolt

Vermont stands up

A CONSERVATIVE could be forgiven these days for feeling a little discouraged by the battle over gay marriage. All summer long, gays from around the country have been heading to Vermont to get “C.U.ed” (joined in “civil union”); in September, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. Depressed? Don’t be. A grassroots campaign to “take back Vermont” has swept across the Green Mountain State—a drive poised, not only to repeal or scale back Vermont’s civil-unions law, but to return the only state with a Socialist representative in Congress to its conservative roots. And there is every reason to believe that what’s happening now in Vermont might soon be repeated in states across the country.

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Stanley Kurtz

Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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Vermont stands up

A CONSERVATIVE could be forgiven these days for feeling a little discouraged by the battle over gay marriage. All summer long, gays from around the country have been heading to Vermont to get “C.U.ed” (joined in “civil union”); in September, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. Depressed? Don’t be. A grassroots campaign to “take back Vermont” has swept across the Green Mountain State—a drive poised, not only to repeal or scale back Vermont’s civil-unions law, but to return the only state with a Socialist representative in Congress to its conservative roots. And there is every reason to believe that what’s happening now in Vermont might soon be repeated in states across the country.