| Connecticut Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage |
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| Written by Mistress Talia |
| Monday, 13 October 2008 17:55 |
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At 11:30 AM Friday morning, the Connecticut Supreme Court put out a 4-3 decision striking down a law barring same-sex marriage.
Connecticut became the third state to legalize gay marriage, following Massachusetts and California. The District of Columbia, Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont and Washington offer civil unions or domestic partnerships to gay couples. Previously, Connecticut offered civil unions. The eight same-sex couples who brought the case argued that Connecticut's civil union law was discriminatory and unconstitutional. It was your basic problem with the whole notion of "separate but equal," the same legal argument for desegregating schools in the 1960s. How the US compares to the world Countries with legal gay marriage include Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and Spain. Countries with some sort of non-marriage option for gay couples include Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The decision: 85 page PDF News articles about the decision:
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