THAT WAS FAST: HRC staffers headed back to the roof this afternoon to raise the Vermont state flag over our headquarters in celebration of the Vermont House and Senate voting today to overrideGov. Jim Douglas’s (R) veto of the marriage bill (S.115). This is the Vermont flag that HRC National Field Director Marty Rousereceived when he ran President Bill Clinton’s Vermont reelection campaign in 1996.
Momentum is certainly behind us: on Friday, we raised the Iowa flag over the HRC building after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the right to marry. (Due to limited space on our flag pole, we replaced the Iowa flag with the Vermont flag.)
In addition to capturing the Vermont flag raising, I also recorded a quick interview with HRC Deputy Field Director Jeremy Pittman (pictured above, right) and State Legislative Director Chris Edelson on the significance of Vermont becoming the 4th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to legally marry.
Watch it here (It was pretty windy up on the roof, so the sound quality could be better.):
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