With all the other news this week, a news item of some historic significance has rather been overlooked. I am sure that most of us heard about it, but I hate to admit that we here at ALP did not give it due recognition.
In a suit, Kerrigan and Mock v. the Connecticut Department of Public Health , the court found for the plaintiff's and agreed to allow same sex marriage. Connecticut is only the third state, behind Massachusetts and more recently California, that has recognized that the legal benefits to couples was greater in a marriage than in a civil union.
We applaud the State of Connecticut in seeing it's responsibility to do what was only right and fair, and in rendering this verdict JUSTICE RICHARD N. PALMER, of the Connecticut Supreme Court, writing for the majority in a 5-4 ruling, stated,"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."
We congratulate all those who will now take advantage of this new avenue, and we wish you all well. |
