1.   A number of speakers will call for legislation to help gay and lesbian couples legalize their unions and adopt and provide foster homes for children.

2.   Few other states have considered legalizing gay unions.

3.   Last year the paper reaffirmed its role as a leader among Vermont newspapers by making a plain-spoken case in its editorials for legalizing gay unions.

4.   Legalizing our union will be grand.

5.   President Franklin Roosevelt later pushed through laws that legalized unions, but the episode chilled union activity in the South for decades, Fink said.

6.   When the state of Vermont decided to legalize civil unions, a marriage-like status for same-sex couples, Bishop Kenneth A. Angell sprang into action.

7.   While he argued the state should recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere, he pointedly did not endorse a new state law legalizing gay unions in Massachusetts.

8.   It was the third time the Czech parliament has rejected a bill legalizing homosexual unions.

9.   Legislation to legalize homosexual unions has been introduced in New York state but has never passed.