{"id":8318,"date":"2005-12-16T13:52:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T20:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/12\/16\/gay-couple-demonstrates-they-are-just-as-deserving-of-marriage-as-straights.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:34:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:34:29","slug":"gay_couple_demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/16\/gay_couple_demo.html","title":{"rendered":"Gay couple demonstrates they are just as deserving of marriage as straights …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… by demonstrating they can screw it up, just like straights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A lesbian couple who entered into the nation’s first same-sex civil union are splitting up amid allegations of violent behavior. Carolyn Conrad, 35, asked a court in October to end her relationship with Kathleen Peterson, 46. <\/p>\n

[…] The two had been together for five years when they were legally joined in Brattleboro minutes after Vermont’s civil-union law took effect on July 1, 2000. Two years ago, the couple were offering relationship advice on the gay-rights Web site.<\/p>\n

Of course, gays still have a long ways before they managed to catch up with straight divorce statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the end of 2004, a total of 7,549 same-sex couples had entered civil unions in Vermont, the first state to offer gay couples nearly all the rights and privileges of marriage. There have been 78 dissolutions.<\/p>\n

Pikers. A measly one percent …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… by demonstrating they can screw it up, just like straights. A lesbian couple who entered into the nation’s first same-sex civil union are splitting up amid allegations of violent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[718,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5231,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/22\/an_illustrating.html","url_meta":{"origin":8318,"position":0},"title":"An illustrating moment","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Apr-04 3:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A common canard among those against gay marriage and civil unions is that, well, all of those things that gay couples are looking for -- power of attorney, inheritance rights,...","rel":"","context":"In "LGBTQ &c"","block_context":{"text":"LGBTQ &c","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gay-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":59,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/03\/sanctity.html","url_meta":{"origin":8318,"position":1},"title":"Sanctity","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jul-03 11:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff Jacoby is unhappy with the prospect of gay marriage. 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