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Earlier this week, I expressed hope that Vermont governor Jim Douglas wouldn't veto legislation granting same-sex marriage rights -- legislation that is poised to pass both houses of the state legislature overwhelmingly (it has already passed 26-4 in the state senate). Alas, it seems that Douglas will veto the legislation.
And, as Andrew Sullivan notes, he is doing so with an argument that is transparently not serious even by the standards of anti-gay marriage arguments:
The urgency of our state's economic and budgetary challenges demands the full focus of every member and every committee of this Legislature.Apparently, the focus of legislature on economic issues will be better maintained by forcing them to waste time assembling the votes to override the governor's disgraceful veto. Instead, Douglas could simply sign the legislation and being done with it. Hopefully activists and Vermont are getting ready to ensure that the legislative supermajorities will do the right thing.
--Scott Lemieux
