2- Connecticut
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4- Vermont!
The Vermont marriage bill to allow same-sex marriage passed through state congress (with record votes/in record time, it seemed), the stupid, ignorant governor vetoed the bill as promised, and then, THEN, the Vermont legislature voted and overrode the veto (23-5 Senate, 100-49 House)!! I hope Cali feels super salty today.
Also, the Iowa Senate Majority Leader, Mike Gronstal, blocked a proposal to bring up a constitutional amendment to ban the newly allowed same-sex marriage. It's brilliant, you have to watch it-
The other really great thing about the Vermont win is that, in the cases of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa, same-sex marriage rights were granted when the courts, via civil lawsuits, found same-sex marriage bans to be unconstitutional. Vermont was the first state to have a bill proposed and passed through legislature, without there having to be a lawsuit or supreme court involvement. That's major progress and words cannot describe how happy this makes me today. Twice in roughly a week. Wow. It's really something.
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