This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: The state's population is almost evenly divided over the issue, polls have shown, and public hearings on the topic have sometimes turned unusually ugly.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. Like many other proponents of the civil-unions bill, Governor Dean talked today about a ''healing process'' that Vermont now needs after being split by divisions over the issue. He saw the bill, he said, as a logical extension of Vermont's tradition of treating people equally, a tradition that dated back to the 18th century when the state's Constitution banned slavery. Governor Dean, a Democrat, said he has not decided what kind of signing ceremony to hold, if any. Lippert said, would mean that the state was saying that ''my family, me and my partner's, are a family of worth in the state of Vermont.'' ''We are not a burden on society,'' he said. Lippert Jr., a Democrat who is the only openly gay member of the Legislature, said he had to contradict some of the bill's opponents. It is not about sex, it is about relationships.''Īnd Representative William J. ''This bill is not about perversion in any way,'' said Representative Donny Osman, a Democrat. Another warned, ''What we are trying to do is against the law of nature and against God's law.'' A third called the civil-unions bill ''social rape'' and a sign of ''moral rot,'' and a fourth said gays ''choose to engage in unnatural and unhealthy acts.''īut proponents of the bill carried the day and picked up three votes more than they had won in an earlier House vote last month. ''This is a sad, dark day for the state of Vermont, and God help us all,'' one opponent said. Some also said that homosexuality was against God's will and that civil unions would undermine traditional marriage. ''Our people are coughing and gagging and choking on this bill,'' he said, and could ''throw it up and throw us out.'' ''Stop shoving this bill down the throats of our people,'' said Representative George Schiavone, a Republican. Opponents of the bill argued that the majority of Vermonters opposed creating a marriagelike institution for gay couples, and that their will was being ignored. That ruling and the resulting legislative battles plunged Vermonters into weeks of difficult discussion over questions of gay marriage, and homosexuality in general, and today's debate demonstrated that deep dissent lingered. The court invited the Legislature to come up with a remedy, either by including gay couples in the state's marriage laws or by creating a parallel system. The bill was a response to a ruling in December by the Vermont Supreme Court, which found that gay and lesbian couples denied the right to marry were suffering from unconstitutional discrimination. Couples seeking civil unions must register with their town clerk and have the unions certified by a clergy member or a justice of the peace, and partners seeking to dissolve a union must go through family court just as married couples seeking a divorce do. The civil unions are not expected to be recognized by other states and will not entitle the partners to federal benefits.īut the bill does create a sweeping marriagelike system that allows the state to confer on same-sex couples virtually all of the more than 300 rights and responsibilities enjoyed by married couples, from health insurance benefits to inheritance rights. That she could not say ''Marry me!'' reflects the gap between the civil unions, which will be available beginning July 1, and actual marriages.

Beck and offered a new version of the traditional proposal: ''C.U. Throughout the morning's debate, one couple, Nina Beck and Stacy Jolles, stood holding their baby son, Seth, beneath a portrait of George Washington. The 79-to-68 vote to create civil unions set off sighs of relief, tears and hugs among the three same-sex couples whose 1997 lawsuit seeking the right to marry led to this moment. Howard Dean said he would sign it into law within days. The State Senate approved the bill last week, and Gov. The Vermont House of Representatives gave its final approval today to a bill creating same-sex marriages in almost everything but the name.

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