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Connecticut Judges Rule in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage

In a surprising vote earlier today, Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in favor of allowing same-sex marriage, making it the third state to allow this union, following Massachusetts and California.
Eight same-sex couples had filed suit after being denied the right to marry under the current law. A divided state supreme court overturned the appellate court decision, claiming that the 2005 civil union laws passed in Connecticut did not warrant the same protections or status that traditional marriage offered.

Although a state-wide vote could overrule this decision, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell is not confident it would work. “I do not believe their voice reflects the majority of the people of Connecticut. However, I am also firmly convinced that attempts to reverse this decision — either legislatively or by amending the state Constitution — will not meet with success.”

The court offered these three major reasons for its decision, which are large jumps in logic from the U.S. Constitution:

• The state was discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
• Sexual orientation is a quasi-classification which deserves heightened judicial scrutiny.
• The state did not provide sufficient justification to deny same-sex couples this right.

According to Attorney David Gibbs Jr., “These kinds of judicial decisions attack the very foundation of traditional marriage. Gay marriage is a social experiment that has never been tried in the history of the world.”

Because this decision was based on Connecticut’s state constitution, this ruling cannot be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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