From Lambda Legal:
Four days after Lambda Legal's unanimous marriage equality victory in Iowa, the Vermont legislature has overridden the Governor's veto, making marriage for same-sex couples legal in that state too. Not long after, the Washington, D.C. Council voted 12-0 to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples performed in other states.
This is a week to remember — the week that marriage equality in our country turned a critical corner.
The historic vote in Vermont makes it the first state where a legislative body successfully enacted a marriage equality law. After ten years of experience with civil unions, the people and elected officials there realized that second-class status for same-sex couples is not right. We congratulate the courageous Vermont legislators for doing the right thing. We also congratulate the advocates who have worked tirelessly for equality in Vermont, especially our colleagues at Vermont Freedom to Marry. And we remember the lawsuit that set the stage when Boston-based GLAD won a historic victory in 1999 in Baker v. Vermont that opened the door to the marriage equality finally achieved today.
Equality is on a winning streak — two states in four days and recognition in D.C.! And legislatures in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maine and New York may pass marriage equality bills soon.
