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Friday, June 06
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Source: Richmond Times-Union , Northern Virginia Daily , Associated Press Richmond, VA -- A Virginia Supreme Court ruling this morning means a Vermont child custody order in a failed civil union must be enforced here even though same-sex marriages are barred in Virginia, but the right-wing lawyers who lost today's case vowed to continue the legal fight. The unusual, long-running case centers on 6-year-old Isabella, born to then Lisa Miller-Jenkins, after she was artificially inseminated. Miller-Jenkins had entered into a civil union in Vermont with Janet Miller-Jenkins in 2001. The union broke...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch , Virginian-Pilot The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments this morning in a long-running custody battle over a 6-year-old girl and two women who entered into a civil union in Vermont but then later broke up. Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins were Virginia residents in 2000 when they traveled to Vermont to join in a civil union. Miller became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2001 and gave birth to a baby girl named Isabella the next year. The three moved to Vermont in 2002. Miller and Jenkins separated about a year later, and Miller moved back to Virginia...
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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Boston Herald , Rutland (Vt) Herald , Associated Press via Boston Herald [post updated 3/14/08 with additional information on the argument from Boston Herald ] The Vermont Supreme Court will once again weigh in on a national headline-making child custody suit stemming from a bitter civil union split. A three-judge panel of the Vermont Supreme Court's seven justices heard arguments Thursday morning from attorneys representing Janet Jenkins of who now lives in Vermont and Lisa Miller, who lives in Virginia. The issues at the heart of the dispute involve custody and contact with a child...
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Sunday, January 13
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Source: Associated Press via Philly.com and Foster's Daily Democrat MONTPELIER, Vt. - For many who lived through it, the memories remain painfully fresh: the hate mail, the threatening telephone messages, the tense public meetings. This time around, the debate is noticeably more tame. Eight years after its not-so-civil war over civil unions, Vermont , now weighing whether to legalize gay marriage , is enduring little of the vitriol and recrimination that surrounded its groundbreaking 2000 decision to legally recognize gay and lesbian couples. It's early: Lawmakers say they're unlikely...
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Tuesday, January 08
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Source: Times Argus MONTPELIER -- After spending months boycotting legislative hearings on expanding marriage rights to same-sex couples, opponents of are now ramping up their efforts against gay marriage. Several prominent opponents of gay marriage will announce at a Statehouse press conference Tuesday morning the formation of the Vermont Marriage Advisory Council, a group that will hold hearings on the benefits of traditional marriage. Stephen Cable of Rutland, the founder of the conservative group Vermont Renewal, said the formation of this traditional marriage council is in response to what...
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Saturday, November 03
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Source: Burlington Free Press Burlington, Vt -- The leader of the Episcopal Church of the United States said Friday that church dissidents unhappy with the ordination of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire should refocus their energy on more pressing world problems. "Obviously a handful of our church leaders are still upset and would like to see the church never ordain and never baptize a gay or lesbian person," said Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, in Burlington to attend the annual convention of the state's 175-year-old Episcopal diocese. "We need to refocus on more life...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: Associated Press via Boston.com SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. --An opponent of same-sex marriage told a panel Monday that allowing it would effectively destroy the institution of marriage and in doing so cheapen the value of the status it now confers. Monte Stewart, president of the Marriage Law Foundation, a public interest law firm in Orem, Utah that opposes gay marriage, got a cool reception at a meeting of the Vermont Commission on Family Recognition and Protection. His presentation triggered a back-and-forth with panel members that was so lively it prompted Chairman Thomas Little to remind them...
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Thursday, October 04
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ST. ALBANS, VT -- Two sisters are accused of slashing tires and spray-painting the word "faggot" on vehicles belonging to a gay couple in St. Albans, said Vermont State Police. Melissa Gaboury, 16, of St. Albans was cited Monday to appear in...
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