Vermont Makes Today a Great Day for Equality Updates
Vermont has become the fourth state to extend the right to marry to same sex couples. The vote to override Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto of a bill allowing same sex couples to marry was a whopping 23-5 in the state Senate and 100-49 to override in the House. While this is certainly a triumph for the LGBT population in Vermont, the Governor does not think that same sex marriage is as important a topic to pay attention to and we should be obsessed with the fact that we are in a financial crisis instead:
“What really disappoints me is that we have spent some time on an issue during which another thousand Vermonters have lost their jobs,” the governor said Tuesday. “We need to turn out attention to balancing a budget without raising taxes, growing the economy, putting more people to work.”
I agree that it is important to balance the budget, grow the economy, and definitely put more people to work, which is necessary for those first two points to be made possible to begin with. However, what kind of people are we going to be putting to work? I bet some of them will be LGBT folks and I am sure that once they obtain a full-time job and apply for benefits they will want their partners covered on their health care plans. Yeah, so these two instances pretty much go hand in hand. It is ridiculous for a member of office in a particular state to ever say that the rights of a certain group of people can be put on hold because we have bigger fish to fry. What is more important than people receiving their basic human rights?
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