MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Nine years after it played host to a bitter fight over civil unions, Vermont’s Statehouse is again a gay rights battleground. More than 200 same-sex marriage opponents, cheering and wearing buttons that read “Marriage — A Mother & Father for Every Child,” converged Monday on Montpelier as lawmakers began a week’s worth of hearings on a bill that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. If approved, Vermont would join Massachusetts and Connecticut as the only U.S. states that allow gay marriage.——Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]