High Court Grants Marriage Rights For Same-Sex Couples

By MARK SPENCER, ALAINE GRIFFIN, DANIELA ALTIMARI and BILL LEUKHARDT | Courant Staff Writers
    1:25 PM EDT, October 10, 2008

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hcu-gaymarriage-1010,0,7812756.story

The state Supreme Court's 4-3 decision Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry swept through the state with the force of a cultural tidal wave.

While lead plaintiff Beth Kerrigan and her partner -- soon to be wife -- embraced and sobbed after learning of the ruling, opponents vowed to pursue a long and complicated route to change the constitution to ban gay marriage.

The Supreme Court released its historic ruling at 11:30 a.m. Citing the equal protection clause of the state constitution, the justices ruled that civil unions were discriminatory and that the state's "understanding of marriage must yield to a more contemporary appreciation of the rights entitled to constitutional protection."

I had to read 3/4 of the article to find out what state.

Yay for my state being slightly less backward

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