Connecticut high court rules in favor of same-sex marriage

In another victory for equal rights for all, the Connecticut Supreme Court yesterday ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry.

The following is an excerpt from an article in the Hartford Courant:

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."

Exactly. This is what I have been saying all along: Gay people don't want special treatment. They don't want special rights. They just want equal treatment under the law, and the freedom to enjoy the same rights as the rest of us.

And apparently the state will not appeal this case to the Supreme Court. According to the Courant article:

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, whose office represented the state in the case, said the decision, which takes effect Oct. 28, "must be respected" and cannot be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court because it was based on the state constitution.

Amen.

Kudos to the Connecticut high court justices for ruling in favor of equality and against discrimination.