When the public pays for private schooling, will the public get to decide how taxpayer dollars are used in private schools, or will the public be forced to abandon norms as fundamental as nondiscrimination? W/ @DerekWBlack @ACLU @USATODAY #vted #vtpoli https://t.co/dF8ohZ0RPT

Religious municipalities, hmm. When I was in 7th grade, living in Afghanistan, we called this theocracy.

Thank you to these amazing young people. We see you. We are here working for you as well. We will carry your stories with us on the House floor. #TransDayOfVisibility at the Vermont Statehouse @outrightvermont

I left a school I taught at for almost 10 years on 1/2 and started at another on 1/3 with a 40% raise. Gave notice at that job on Monday and start outside of education soon with another 10%. I’ve gotten a 50% raise in < two months and all I had to do was leave teaching. Bye. ✌🏻

Appreciation to educators across Vermont today. You are stability and grace in the face of evil. Thank you for fighting for our children. #vted

“The chief concern,” Google’s liaison in the military warned the leaders of the repository, “is keeping this out of the press.” https://t.co/pz6qgSRGT5

Continuing VT House Speaker @SKrowinski gets her second, well-deserved standing ovation in two minutes. @vtdems @VTHouseDems

Know anyone who should become a school leader, teacher, literacy specialist? UVEI is a great option for NH & VT! Pls help us spread the word? @JPhillipsVT @ChristieNold @RowFn @lifelegeros @innovativeEd

What if we thought about this as a housing problem, not a school problem? VT faces an acute shortage of housing. At the same time, our population has aged. That means we have the same number of households, but fewer households with children. #vtpoli https://t.co/uE4milrcLf

15/ I’m grateful for this Act and to those who supported it. This act is a reminder to exercise our responsibility to stand with and protect those whose fundamental dignity and rights this court would strip.

14/ The passage of the #RespectforMarriageAct is an important commitment to fairness and freedom to love and live. It is also yet another opportunity to recognize how fragile justice is in the face of a radicalized court. #vtpoli

13/ However, this burden to travel is a burden that will not be carried equally, and poses the greatest challenge to less wealthy citizens or people who can't travel for other reasons.

12/ The #RespectforMarriageAct is a good beginning. It repeals an existing, bigoted federal stature. It sets the table for protecting civil rights, by requiring the Federal government to recognize any marriage that was “valid in the place where entered into.”

11/ This act has limits. Some states won't recognize same sex marriage (think TX). People there could travel to other states to marry and then be eligible for federal rights and privileges.

10. (Note: This act also protects rights and privileges in interracial marriages by the way, since legal protections in same-sex marriages are rooted in the same constitutional principles as protections for interracial marriages.)

9/ However, the act was written this way for a reason, and because of this #SCOTUS. We should celebrate it, as this may be the best we can do at this time, and it is an important commitment to equal treatment under the law. https://t.co/XdINDLjqzY

8/ The Act requires that every state recognize a valid same-sex marriage. Of course, that is different from requiring all states to license same-sex marriages. https://t.co/qZl8Xoerz1

7) That is a good thing. And, it is just a start, as those who have been watching the fallout from the Dodds and Carson decisions know.

6/ More than 1,000 federal laws grant rights & privileges to married couples. If Obergefell is undone, the #RespectforMarriageAct ensures people in same-sex marriages have the same rights $ privileges as people in heterosexual marriages, including rights of parenthood. #vtpoli