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Connecticut Ruling Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 10, 2008
Filed at 12:01 p.m. ET
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that
same-sex couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind
Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.
The divided court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the
freedom to marry under the state constitution, and Connecticut's civil unions
law does not provide those couples with the same rights as heterosexual
couples.
"I can't believe it. We're thrilled, we're absolutely overjoyed. We're
finally going to be able, after 33 years, to get married," said Janet Peck of
Colchester, who was a plaintiff with her partner, Carole Conklin.
Connecticut will join Massachusetts and California as the only state to allow
same-sex couples to marry.
"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," Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote in the majority
opinion that overturned a lower court finding.
"To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional
principles to gay persons and another to all others," Palmer wrote.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Friday that she disagreed, but will not fight the
ruling.
"The Supreme Court has spoken," Rell said in a statement. "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 lawsuit was brought in 2004 after eight same-sex couples were denied
marriage licenses and sued, saying their constitutional rights to equal
protection and due process were violated.
They said the state's marriage law, if applied only to heterosexual couples,
denied them of the financial, social and emotional benefits of marriage.
Peck said that as soon as the decision was announced, the couple started
crying and hugging while juggling excited phone calls from her brother and
other friends and family.
"We've always dreamed of being married," she said. "Even though we were
lesbians and didn't know if that would ever come true, we always dreamed of
it."
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Associated Press reporters Pat Eaton-Robb, Stephanie Reitz and Larry Smith in
Hartford contributed to this report.
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