Published in: May-June 2004 issue.
Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage
by David Moats
Harcourt. 288 pages, $25.
CIVIL WARS is a chronological account of Vermont’s landmark adoption of a law mandating civil unions in December 1999. As editorial page editor for the Rutland Herald, Moats wrote a series of articles that focused on the 1999 Vermont Supreme Court decision that found the state’s law denying marriage to gays and lesbians to be discriminatory. These articles won him a Pulitzer Prize.
