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October 11, 2008 at 12:11am
by thecodepounder Connecticut becomes the third state to sanction same-sex marriage:
A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court struck down the state’s civil union law on Friday and ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. Connecticut thus joins Massachusetts and California as the only states to have legalized gay marriages.
The ruling, which cannot be appealed and is to take effect on Oct. 28, held that a state law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples, and a civil union law intended to provide all the rights and privileges of marriage to same-sex couples, violated the constitutional guarantees of equal protection under the law.
People: get ready. I’ve said it before so there’s no reason to say it again (not when I can quote myself, for a change!):
Today it’s gay marriage, fifty years ago it was interracial marriage, but nothing’s changed. We still hear the same fallacious arguments about how this is the downfall of our culture and the very world will come to an end and all will be destroyed and how it will somehow cheapen or lessen the institution of marriage, blah, blah, blah. Fear, prejudice, intolerance–whatever the motivation the net result is discrimination. And, cloaking the discrimination in terms of “god” just makes things worse.
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