The official start of gay marriag me on Wednday, ls than a month after Connecticut’s hight urt legalized the unns.
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SOURCE: Gay & Lbian Advot & Defenrs: A Brief Q&A About Marriage For Same-Sex Coupl Connecticut; GLAD Equal Jtice Unr Law: How to Get Married Connecticut; Connecticut Judicial Law Librari Webse. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTGay Marriag Beg Sureck for The New York TimNov. 10 that excludg same-sex upl om marriage was unnstutnal, and a week ago the urt announced that gay marriag uld officially be performed startg on Wednday.
Ined, advot for same-sex marriage predicted that there would not be the same sh for licens on Wednday that there was 2004, when Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriag, or June, when California began performg them. They ced both the short notice and the fact that Connecticut has, sce 2005, offered civil unns, which offer siar rights and benefs, for gay, lawyers and supporters of gay marriage lled the day momento, pecially as a unterpot to the passage last week of a ballot measure California that validated a urt cisn legalizg gay marriage. “Today Connecticut sends a msage of hope and promise to lbian and gay people throughout the untry who want to be treated as equal cizens by their ernment, ” said Ben Kle, a senr lawyer wh Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a Boston-based group that ligated the Connecticut se.
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Connecticut th jos Massachetts and California as the only stat to have legalized gay marriag. Palmer wrote for the majory a 4-to-3 cisn that explored the nature of homosexual inty, the history of societal views toward homosexualy and the lims of gay polil power pared wh that of blacks and women. “Interpretg our state nstutnal provisns acrdance wh firmly tablished equal protectn prcipl leads evably to the ncln that gay persons are entled to marry the otherwise qualified same-sex partner of their choice, ” Jtice Palmer clared.
“To ci otherwise would require to apply one set of nstutnal prcipl to gay persons and another to all others. The Massachetts high urt held 2004 that same-sex marriag were legal, while California’s urt cisn May related to domtic partnerships and not the more broadly fed civil Connecticut cisn, which eliced strong dissentg opns om three jtic, also opened the door to marriage a b wir for gay upl New York, where state laws do not provi for same-sex marriag or civil unns, although Gov.
Paterson recently issued an executive orr requirg ernment agenci to regnize same-sex marriag performed other opn Connecticut was hailed by jubilant gay upl and their advot as a fulfillment of years of hop and dreams. ” Relig and nservative groups lled the lg an outrage but not unexpected, and spoke of steps to enact a nstutnal ban on gay marriage.
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“It is bigger than gay marriage. ”Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said his office was reviewg the cisn to terme whether laws and procr will have to be revised — lol officials will issue marriage licens to gay upl whout qutn, for example — but he offered no challenge and said would soon be implemented. Advot for same-sex upl have long argued that civil unns and domtic partnerships nied them the fancial, social and emotnal benefs acrd a legal unrpngs for gay marriag, civil unns and statutory partnerships have all e legislative actns and cisns lawsus.
Arguments the se centered on whether civil unns and marriag nferred equal rights, and on whether same-sex upl should be treated as what the urt lled a “spect class” or “quasi-spect class” — a group, like blacks or women, that has experienced a history of discrimatn and was th entled to creased scty and protectn by the state the promulgatn of s Sureck for The New York TimAmong the creria for cln as a spect class, the urt said, were whether gay people uld “ntrol” their sexual orientatn, whether they were “polilly powerls” and whether beg gay had a bearg on one’s abily to ntribute to society.