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High Court Grants Marriage Rights For Same-Sex Couples — Courant.com
The state Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry swept through the state with the force of a cultural tidal wave.

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The Supreme Court released its historic ruling at 11:30 a.m. Citing the equal protection clause of the state constitution, the justices ruled that civil unions were discriminatory and that the state’s “understanding of marriage must yield to a more contemporary appreciation of the rights entitled to constitutional protection.”

“Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same sex partner of their choice,” the majority wrote. “To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others.”

Don’t worry all your crazy religious nutjobs out there

While lead plaintiff Beth Kerrigan and her partner — soon to be wife — embraced and sobbed after learning of the ruling, opponents vowed to pursue a long and complicated route to change the constitution to ban gay marriage.

There are already crazy nutjobs on the case to make sure that gay people aren’t treated as equals.

One of the Justices apparently thinks that only married people can have children, and that all marriages result in children:

“The ancient definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has its basis in biology, not bigotry,” Zarella wrote. “If the state no longer has an interest in the regulation of procreation, then that is a decisionfor [sic] the legislature or the people of the state and not this court.”

Congrats to CT’s same sex couples, especially to those who fought for this.  The ruling goes into effect October 28th.