Marriage
Vermont legalized same-sex marriage effective September 1, 2009. Civil unions entered into prior to September 1 will continue to be recognized as civil unions. Couples currently in a civil union who want to be married will need to go through the new marriage process.
Read more about this topic: Baker V. Vermont
Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“the mother lies down on her marriage bed
and eats up her heart like two eggs.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)