Same-sex marriages commence
From Wednesday forward, same-sex couples in Connecticut can be licensed to marry, for better or worse and in sickness or in health — just like their heterosexual counterparts.
One month after the Connecticut Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, the first same-sex marriage license in the state was issued in New Haven on Wednesday morning. Barbara and Robin Levine-Ritterman signed their license to marry at 10 a.m. at City Hall, 17 years after their Jewish commitment ceremony and three years after entering into a civil union.
As the Levine-Rittermans exited the foyer of City...
Yes, I am weary of the repeated line that "the rejection of the constitutional convention = support for gay marriage"
Connecticut voters are more sophisticated than that.
They feared not the special interest group of traditional marriage defenders, but rather the influence of the gay "marriage" groups.
#2, gay couples were already about to be able to get married in Connecticut. What other element in the platform of gay marriage groups do you think voters were afraid a convention would expose them to?
Can someone please tell me why the state is involved in a religious activity? If marriage is a religious rite, why do we recognize any aspect of it as relevant to civic life? If, on the other hand, it has a civic function and should be part of the civic code, then there really is no place for only certain religions' opinions to hold sway. Can't have it both ways, per the CONSTITUTION. Last I checked, my constitution trumps your bible. So there and thank god!
#4
If you're so smart and sophisticated,
please learn to spell...it's
raspberry....
Another example of the courts replacing the ballot box. Connecticut families are overwhelmingly against this assault on marriage by homosexual groups while they have civil unions and other remedies available to them that could legally grant them all rights a married couple has.