Vermont Updates

No Time for Gay Marriage Debate: MSNBC

With 20,000 citizens now out of a job, and unemployment at its highest level in 17 years, Vermont's Republican Gov. Jim Douglas urged state lawmakers to focus exclusively on job creation and economic growth in the final weeks of their session. Douglas said there is no time for "divisive issues" like same-sex marriage this spring. ...

Again Thursday, Douglas expressed his opposition to a marriage bill, saying Vermont's civil union law is sufficient. Pressed by reporters to explain his position, Douglas said "I believe marriage, as our statute says, is a union of a man and a woman."

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Lawmaker Wishes Same-Sex Marriage Had Waited: Associated Press

A key lawmaker whose committee will take up a gay marriage bill says he wishes the issue had been put off.

State Sen. Dick Sears, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, says his panel isn't happy about having to address the issue in the session that ends in May. The panel just finished work on sex offender legislation, and starting Monday will host hearings on gay marriage.

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