David Moats - Civil Wars
Expect my review in 2004.
from the publisher:
When three same-sex couples requested marriage licenses in their small Vermont towns, they simply wanted to declare their love and commitment. But the debate they ignited over their right to marry led all the way to the state Supreme Court. Eventually the Vermont legislature became the first in the country to make civil unions legal for gay and lesbian couples.
But it was not an easy victory -- the bill sparked the fiercest political, social, and cultural struggle in the state's memory, setting neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother.


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A civil rights landmark

CAROLE MIGDEN, the state Board of Equalization chair, likes to point to polling numbers that show 70 percent of Americans under 30 support same-sex marriage. In 10 years – 20 at the outside – this battle will be over, and the right-wing fundamentalists will have lost. When that happens, history will almost certainly look back at what's been happening in San Francisco this week as a civil rights landmark.


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Wolves in sheep’s clothing will still tear you apart
By Charles Karel Bouley II 
For any gay Republican who has missed the news in the past few weeks, here’s a bulletin: The Republican Party, in the form of the president of the United States, thinks you’re a second-class citizen, and they’d like to write that into the U.S. Constitution. Here’s one gay non-Republican who’s had just about enough of the “changing the party from the inside” mantra. It isn’t working.