CONNECTICUT LEGALIZES GAY MARRIAGE! [video]
”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. To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others”
Justice Richard N. Palmer, writing the majority opinion for the Connecticut Supreme Court essentially overturning a lower court finding. The 4-3 decision makes Connecticut the third state in the USA to legally adopt gay marriages. The decision will not become law immediately, but the governor has stated that he doesn’t plan to fight the decision despite his disagreement with it. (Associated Press)
”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…. We’ve always dreamed of being married. Even though we were lesbians and didn’t know if that would ever come true, we always dreamed of it.”
Plaintiff Janet Peck who plans to marry her partner, Carole Conklin, now that the Supreme Court has ruled in her favor on the issue of same-sex marriages. (Associated Press)
”Accordingly, we reject the trial court’s decision that marriage and civil unions are ‘separate’ but ‘equal’ entities…. In his dissenting opinion, Justice Borden concludes that gay persons are not entitled to protected status because they have too much political power to warrant such protection…. [This] conclusion is flawed because, at the time women were accorded protected status under the federal constitution, they possessed more political power than gays in this state currently possess.”
More of the opinion written by Justice Richard Palmer that has now allowed gay marriage in the state of Connecticut. (Hartford Courant)
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