Happy National Coming Out Day! (In case anyone out there was still wondering, I'm a lesbian.)
To celebrate, the Supreme Court of the state of Connecticut has decided to let same-sex couples marry.
What's particularly interesting about this ruling (versus
Massachusettes and California which are the only other states to grant
gay marriage) is that the Connecticut legislature had volunteered a
"civli union" type arrangement like Vermont's, which more or less
grants the status of marriage to same-sex couples under a different
name. Not good enough, the court said and ruled that "denying marriage
to same-sex couples would create separate standards."
There's often an argument that goes
Read More...
