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Tuesday morning Vermont became the nation's fourth state to make gay marriage legal. Vermont was the first state to legalize marriages for same-sex couples through a legislature's vote.
The House minimum requirement to override Gov. Jim Douglas' veto from earlier this week was a 100-49 vote, which is the exact count they ended up voting. The House vote followed the much less dramatic override Senate vote, which was a vote of 23-5.
Having been the first state to legalize same-sex civil unions, Vermont now joins Connecticut, Massachusetts and Iowa in providing gays with rights to marry.
It had been less than a day since Douglas released his veto, saying the bill would not provide benefits to gay and lesbian couples because they still would not be provided the federal rights or under other states' laws.
