Vermont crowd shows solidarity against marriage equality protestors

Burlington Free Press
September 1, 2009
The night before the freedom to marry became legal in Ver­mont, more than 400 people met at Burlington’s First Con­gregational Church to take a pre-emptive stand against pro­testers from Kansas who planned to crash today’s party. “We gather to affirm that the ties that bind us are stronger than those that would rip us apart,” the Rev. Robert Lee, the church’s senior minister, told the crowd, which filled the pews and balcony. [Link]