Legal Opinion
Baker v. State
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided December 20, 1999No. 98-032PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Amestoy, CJ.
May the State of Vermont exclude same-sex couples from the benefits and protections that its laws provide to opposite-sex married couples? That is the fundamental question we address in this appeal, a question that the Court well knows arouses deeply-felt religious, moral, and political beliefs. Our constitutional responsibility to consider the legal merits of issues properly before us provides no exception for the controversial case. The issue before the Court, moreover, does not turn on the religious or moral debate over intimate same-sex relationships, but rather on the…
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