Vermont Gives Final
Approval to Same-Sex Unions

Front row, left to right: Amy Zucker, Maggie Rebmann (with child on lap), Nancy Crumbine, Jim Norman, Jane Dwinell, Brendan Hadash photo by Barbara Dozetos

New April 26, 2000: Vermont House of Representatives Joins State Senate in Approving Civil Union Bill; Governor to Sign Bill into Law Next Week

Unitarian Universalists Speak Before Vermont State Legislature in Support of Same Sex Marriage

March 29, 2000: Testimony of the Rev. Jane Dwinell, First Universalist Parish, Derby Line, VT, to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier

(Montpelier, VT — March 3, 2000) Three Unitarian Universalists went before the Vermont State Legislature on March 1 in hope of influencing legislators to support legal marriage for same sex couples. Appearing were the Rev. James Norman, District Executive for the UUA's New Hampshire/Vermont District, the Rev. Nancy Crumbine, minister of the UU Congregation of the Upper Valley in Norwich, VT, and the Rev. Jane Dwinell, minister of the First Universalist Parish, Derby Line, VT.

The three spoke in support of support the House Judiciary Bill on Civil Union, H847.

Testimony of the Rev. Jane Dwinell, First Universalist Parish, Derby Line, VT March 1, 2000

Testimony of The Rev. Dr. Nancy Jay Crumbine, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Upper Valley, Norwich, Vermont

Letter to the editor - from the Rev. Nancy Crumbine, to be published in Deerfield, VT Valley News & Valley News, Lebanon, NH, March, 2000

Vermont media coverage of Same Sex Marriage debate

UUA support of Same Sex Marriage

The UUA Office of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Concerns

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