[Naomi W.]

There are a lot of scare tactics being thrown around by the right to try to discredit same gender marriage. The truth is, marriage is an evolving process, and up until 1967 interracial marriage was illegal in parts of the United States. The only way to respond, I believe, is to talk about civil marriage as a contract between two consenting, unrelated adults. The government has no right to recognize one group that fits this criteria (opposite gender couples) and arbitrarily exclude another group that also fits this criteria (same gender couples).

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Name : Naomi W., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Lesbian, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 45, City : Standish, State : ME Country : United States, Occupation : Organizer, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower class, 

[Naomi W.]

Vermont has a history of populism in the true sense, not the right wing kind. I don't know why this is true, but there are real differences between Vermont and Maine and New Hampshire. Around the turn of the last century, Emma Goldman went to the Barre Granite Quarry and addressed the granite workers; Norman Thomas also showed up in Vermont a number of times. I think that some of the progressiveness is due to independence and the live-and-let-live philosophy of northern New England. Lately, though, the progressive politics are at least partially due to an influx of out-of-staters, and this as much as anything is at the core of the reaction against civil marriage.

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