| | State of Vermont Office of the Secretary of State - November 2004 Opinions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Five years after the civil unions law has come into effect it is clear that in many other states the courts will not consider a case asking to dissolve a Vermont civil union. |
 | | Of course, since a justice is a public official he or she may not discriminate on any basis prohibited by law (age, race, sex, national origin, religion, sexual orientation), and must apply his or her policy to both marriages and civil unions. |
 | | Throughout the autumn of this year and the spring of next, the Secretary of State’s Office will be honoring long-serving appointed and elected local officials of all fourteen counties at the Vermont Public Service Awards. |
| www.sec.state.vt.us /secdesk/opinions/2005/July_August_05.html (5175 words) |