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Title: Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage
Post by: Shana A on October 10, 2008, 03:58:54 PM
Post by: Shana A on October 10, 2008, 03:58:54 PM
Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage
Filed by: Alex Blaze
October 10, 2008 12:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/connecticut_legalizes_same-sex_marriage.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/connecticut_legalizes_same-sex_marriage.php)
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that civil unions aren't OK, and the state has to recognize same-sex couples with marriage.
Updates to come.
Update: Not just same-sex marriage, but the court also went the way of California and made sexual orientation a suspect class:
In sum, the relatively modest political influence that gay persons possess is insufficient to rectify the invidious discrimination to which they have been subjected for so long. Like the political gains that women had made prior to their recognition as a quasi-suspect class, the political advances that gay persons have attained afford them inadequate protection, standing alone, in view of the deep-seated and pernicious nature of the prejudice and antipathy that they continue to face. Today, moreover, women have far greater political power than gay persons, yet they continue to be accorded status as a quasi-suspect class. [...]
Filed by: Alex Blaze
October 10, 2008 12:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/connecticut_legalizes_same-sex_marriage.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/connecticut_legalizes_same-sex_marriage.php)
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that civil unions aren't OK, and the state has to recognize same-sex couples with marriage.
Updates to come.
Update: Not just same-sex marriage, but the court also went the way of California and made sexual orientation a suspect class:
In sum, the relatively modest political influence that gay persons possess is insufficient to rectify the invidious discrimination to which they have been subjected for so long. Like the political gains that women had made prior to their recognition as a quasi-suspect class, the political advances that gay persons have attained afford them inadequate protection, standing alone, in view of the deep-seated and pernicious nature of the prejudice and antipathy that they continue to face. Today, moreover, women have far greater political power than gay persons, yet they continue to be accorded status as a quasi-suspect class. [...]