Nation's First Same-Sex Civil Union Ends

FOXNews ^ | 8/24/06 | AP

[workerbee]

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A lesbian couple who entered into the nation's first same-sex civil union officially split up Wednesday.

Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson, both of Brattleboro, had entered a civil union shortly after midnight on July 1, 2000, the day Vermont's first-in-the-nation law went into effect.

Conrad, 35, filed to end the union in October and later obtained a restraining order against her partner, saying Peterson punched a hole in the wall during an argument and threatened to harm a friend.

A judge granted the request for a dissolution Wednesday.

"It's a heartbreaking situation for any couple," Conrad told the Brattleboro Reformer on Wednesday.

The couple had been in a relationship for five years before Vermont began offering same-sex couples the rights and benefits of marriage.

Beth Robinson, chairwoman of the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force, said the union's end shows that the state's civil union law is working.

[NewCenturions]

I know I shouldn't laugh....

[goldstategop]

Sure it does. They don't really want to be married. How many gays have rushed up to the altar once the media was gone? Your guess is as good as mine.

( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[Gay State Conservative]

There are plenty of guys who I'd hate to meet in a dark alley.I think I'll add Kathy to that list.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I guess those Energizer batteries finally quit.

[RexBeach]

God, I love the last sentence of the snippet. It's working 'cause something failed. Now there's a fine piece of pretzel logic for you!

[Red Badger]

Okay, who gets custody of the dildo?......

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

So really who cares? Show of hands please?

>crickets chirping<

Thought so.

[fishtank]

Cry me a river...

[Brytani]

ROFLMAO......

You're bad......

[manic4organic]

OK, where's the Nelson pic?

[lonerepubinma]

The first "married" lesbian couple in Ma. just split up recently.

[hsalaw]

the union's end shows that the state's civil union law is working.

What? It's working because it failed? This woman is obviously a dem. In the real world, something ISN'T working when it fails.

[workerbee]

Fortunately there's no fighting over who gets the kids.

[pissant]

Looks like the brunette married her toothless grandma

[RexBeach]

You got that right, WB!

[davisfh]

Which one is the guy? Nah, I think I already know which one is packin' a phallus.

[RexBeach]

Gee, what a nice looking couple! Ugh.

[apackof2]

There seems to be lots of violence in homosexual relationships that the media conveniently ignores

[DungeonMaster]

"It's a heartbreaking situation for any couple,"

A couple being defined as any two living organisms that have sex with each other.

[Mad Dawg]

Wow! Color me surprised! A union based on personal gratification failed? Who would have thought? I'm just sorry all to hell for them.

And, yeah, thank God there are no kids, but that's not always going to be the case. Heather's having two mommies isn't always because one of them was maarried before.

[1Old Pro]

There seems to be lots of violence in homosexual relationships that the media conveniently ignores

You got that right, there are numerous cases of domestic violence that go unreported. many of which include firearms which makes the media really mad that they can't report on it.

[ZULU]

These are unnatural combinations. I have read the stability of such "unions" is generally rather low.

If two individuals want into enter into some kind of legal partnership regarding their assets - fine. What they do with each other in private is there own business.

But demanding society place its imprimatur on their perverted lifestyle to the point of equating it with a marriage, or allowing them or adopt children or promote their perverted lifestyle as an acceptable alternative - especially in schools - is intolerable.

[itssoamusing]

If you can't lick em'.... lick em'

[desherwood7]

What's this they said about Gay "Marraiges" lasting longer than Straight marraiges?

[wagglebee]

When a person's basic lifestyle is based upon immorality, it only makes sense that much of their other behaviors will be equally immoral.

[Gamecock]

GLPL (Greater Lesbian Ping List) Ping

[Triggerhippie]

You got that right, there are numerous cases of domestic violence that go unreported. many of which include firearms which makes the media really mad that they can't report on it.

Homo-cide...

[whatexit]

Actually, that may be the key to stopping the whole thing. Allow gay marriage, but make gay divorce illegal.

That'll stop it dead in its tracks!

[randog]

I wonder if vaginamony was awarded, and how did the judge decide?

[Joan Kerrey]

There seems to be lots of violence in homosexual relationships that the media conveniently ignores

I think more lesbian relationships are violent than men's relationships.

[RexBeach]

Now THAT'S a crackerjack idea! It's like the old "roach motel"...they check in, but they don't check out! Excellent, WE!

[Joan Kerrey]

These are unnatural combinations. I have read the stability of such "unions" is generally rather low.

The last article I read claimed that the percentage of failures are the same as straight couples but mostly less complex as children are not usually involved in a gay breakup but the custody of pets can be just as intense.

[azhenfud]

Amid all the fanfare and boasts of how "committed" they were to each other and how they deserved the right to legalize that "commitment", now Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson become a has-been, thrown upon the scrap-heap of wrecked wreches.






Good riddance.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A couple being defined as any two living organisms that have sex with each other.

Like Bin Laden and his goat?

[Beagle8U]

(Tom?) Catfight!

[isom35]

I wish they had changed their last names to something easy to rememeber, like Assclowns...

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Okay, who gets custody of the dildo?......"

The Fem? Or if they were both fems I would assume that they would just cut it in half.

[billhilly]

Lesbian violence is legendary.

[D-Chivas]

Conrad, 35, filed to end the union in October and later obtained a restraining order against her partner, saying Peterson punched a hole in the wall

Over in Holland people generally put fingers in dikes to hold them together, not fists.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Like Bin Laden and his goat?"

That's just baaaaaaaaaaad!

[MrEdd]

I know I shouldn't laugh....

Is yawning okay?

[Semper Vigilantis]

If only they had been allowed to adopt children and be a real family...

[Saint Louis]

I asked one of my gay friends what he thought about gay marriage, and he said, "Are you ready for Gay Divorce?!"

Imagine our courts flooded with every ridiculous monetary squabble imaginable due to the idiotic gesture of making gay relations the legal equivalent of marriage...

[billhilly]

" saying Peterson punched a hole in the wall"

Curiousity requires me to ask if it was the vaginal wall?

[mandingo republican]

The Brunette who married her Granma in the picture looks like kind of a hot 35 year old. What a shame - that's why everyday i am more convinced that there is mental illness involved in this lifestyle. I have seen pics of some lovely waspy preppy blonded tall and beautiful marrying some buth thing that looks like a guy. Why couldn't the preppy chick just marry a guy that looks like fred Flinstone?

yup, mental illness and sometype of chemical imbalance.

Remember till 1973, the Merck medical manual listed homosexuality as a mental illness.

[desherwood7]

Yeah, If Only...

[massgopguy]

No kidding. In the late 70's I worked at a MA computer company that no longer exists. We had a few dozen lesbians on our shift. They'd come in on Monday morning looking like they were coming back from Gettysburg after fighting each other over shared girlfriends.

[DoughtyOne]

Well I was wrong. It lasted longer than six months.

[madprof98]

Brattleboro has been in the news lately because the teens there are standing around naked in the public square. Is this also Howard Dean's hometown?