Conn. high court rules same-sex couples can marry »
Posted By STONERS 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsConnecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will be put before voters in a state where same-sex couples are legally wed.
The 4-3 ruling is the first time that a state that had willingly offered an alternative to marriage was told by a court that civil unions aren't enough to protect the rights of gay couples. Connecticut was the first state to voluntarily pass laws to affirm civil unions.
"I can't believe it. We're thrilled, we're absolutely overjoyed. We're finally going to be able, after 33 years, to get married," said Janet Peck of Colchester, who was a plaintiff with her partner, Carole Conklin.
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STONERS1 year, 2 months ago
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"Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same sex partner of their choice," Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote in the majority opinion that overturned a lower court finding."
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"To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others," Palmer wrote."
"Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Friday that she disagreed, but will not fight the ruling."
"The Supreme Court has spoken," Rell said in a statement. "I do not believe their voice reflects the majority of the people of Connecticut. However, I am also firmly convinced that attempts to reverse this decision — either legislatively or by amending the state Constitution — will not meet with success." -
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This ruling reaffirms that all citizens rights are equal.Civil rights issues need to be decided by the courts not by voters. The denial of civil rights by the majority to a minority is not constitutional One may not agree with same sex marriage but they do not have the right to deny those that do.
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