Victory Again! Connecticut Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

At 11:30 this morning, in another blow to the rightwing’s power, the Connecticut Supreme Court struck down a law banning same-sex marriage, ruling the state had “failed to establish adequate reason to justify the statutory ban.” Connecticut joins California and Massachusetts, becoming the third state in the nation to establish marriage equality for same-sex couples. Like in the two other states, out-of-state couples will be allowed to marry in Connecticut. You can read the decision here: ELIZABETH KERRIGAN ET AL. v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC HEALTH ET AL. (PDF File)

The Advocate reports:

“Oral arguments for the case took place in May of 2007. “Separate institutions for different classes of citizens are now unheard of anywhere in American jurisprudence,” GLAD senior attorney Ben Klein told the high court.  “Our history has taught us that separation serves no other purpose than to mark a class of citizens as inferior.””