In news that no doubt has my mother-in-law and her partner kvelling already, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled by a 4-3 margin that gay couples must be afforded the right to marry (PDF), and that efforts to establish a separate-but-equal civil union scheme were insufficient to grant the equality to which gay couples are entitled under the Connecticut Constitution. With this ruling, says the NYT, Connecticut joins Massachusetts and California as the only states that allow same-sex couples to marry. Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey all protect civil unions, and Maine, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii have passed domestic partnership laws that allow same-sex couples to receive "some of the same benefits granted to those in civil unions." This decision builds off and relies upon earlier ones in Massachusetts,...
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