ACLU Blog: Connecticut Supreme Court holds illegal to prevent same-sex couples from marrying. The court held:
Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay people are entitled to marry… To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others.
A great decision, and it includes a great straightforward take away in the above quote.
I fully support the decision and the advancement of gay rights – but I ask why does it always seem state supreme courts make these decisions week before national election years – is it just me?
Anyways justice is justice, albeit ill-timed ; ).
Here’s another great takeaway from the decision:
We recognize, as the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, supra, 440 Mass. 309, that ‘‘our decision marks a change in the history of our marriage law. Many people hold deep-seated religious, moral, and ethical convictions that marriage should be limited to the union of one man and one woman, and that homosexual conduct is immoral.
Many hold equally strong religious, moral, and ethical convictions that same-sex couples are entitled to be married, and that homosexual persons should be treated no differently than their heterosexual neighbors. Neither view answers the question before [the court]. Our concern is with [our state] [c]onstitution as a charter of governance for every person properly within its reach.’’ Id., 312.
You can read the full decision here.
