Gay Marriage

Vermont Poll: Across Ideology, Most Agree World Didn't End After Gay Marriage Legalization

Kyle Leighton | August 9, 2011, 12:15PM

Proponents of gay marriage scored a huge victory in June when the New York Legislature passed a law legalizing it, advocates celebrated when Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed it, and Mayor Bloomberg marked the occasion by officiating the wedding of two top staffers. In short, the political establishment embraced gay marriage in New York, and now it's a part of life in the state.

In Vermont, it's been part of life since April of 2009. A new survey from Public Policy Polling provides a look into how the law is viewed by Vermont residents, who have clearly accepted it as part of the state's social fabric: 58% say that same sex marriage should be legal.

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Bernie Sanders

Sen. Bernie Sanders: GOP Budget Would 'Stick It To Working Families'

Jon Terbush | April 6, 2011, 5:35PM

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) took to the Senate floor Wednesday and warned that the Republican budget plan would tip America toward oligarchy by giving tax breaks to the wealthiest citizens while slashing aid for the neediest.

Sanders said the GOP plan was to "stick it to working families in a horrendous way," and that the GOP's proposed cuts would decimate the middle class and further increase the gap between the rich and everyone else.

"At a time when the middle class is in decline and poverty is increasing," Sanders said, "what our Republican friends are saying is, 'let us attack virtually every significant program that improves lives for low income or moderate income people.'"

"Rich get richer, they get more. Poor get poorer, they get less," he added. "Maybe that sense of morality makes sense to some people."

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