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Court makes Connecticut 3rd state to allow gay marriage

Praise God and the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, California and now Connecticut!

Arizona needs a constitutional amendment! High courts overturn the laws passed by our duly elected representatives all the time. I don't want a few judges making the laws for my state. That's why we elect a legislature--and why we have referendums and initiatives.

"Duly elected representatives" are not elected to create laws against civil rights. That's why we have a constitution that protects the minority and whose interpretation must be free from religious bias.

Democratic Platform

"support the full inclusion of all families, including same-sex couples, in the life of our nation, and support equal responsibility, benefits, and protections."
"oppose the Defense of Marriage Act"
"reproductive health care"
"reaffirm our support for the Equal Rights Amendment, recommit to enforcing Title IX, and urge passage of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women."
universal "comprehensive healthcare"
"vigorously oppose 'Right-to-Work' Laws and 'paycheck protection' efforts"
"expand the Family and Medical Leave Act and make leave paid."
"an economy-wide cap and trade program"
"a world-class education, from early childhood through college"
"early childhood care and education available to every American child from the day he or she is born"

The Democratic Platform goes all-out in recognizing the support of their gay rights constituency. "We support the full inclusion of all families, including same-sex couples, in the life of our nation, and support equal responsibility, benefits, and protections." The Platform adds, "We oppose the Defense of Marriage Act." Overwhelmingly passed in 1996 to prevent judges from forcing other states to validate Massachusetts' same-sex marriages, DOMA was one of the most popular laws ever passed and it was even signed by Bill Clinton. Feminist pressure won't let the Democrats recede from their "proudly" stated 2004 Platform position that "Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare." This year's Platform is just as pro-abortion, but uses slightly softer words, stating that the Democrats support "a woman's ability to make her own life choices and obtain reproductive health care, including birth control" (throughout nine months and with taxpayers' money, of course). The 2008 Democratic Platform stridently toadies to the feminists on all their issues. The Platform reaffirms support for the Equal Rights Amendment (which was declared dead by the Supreme Court 26 years ago).

McCain and Sarah 2008

OH MY, another deadbeat lesbo bit the dust. I am so glad I left Utah. No church or government has a right to say who someone should love. Gay marriage will not hurt the institution of marriage. On the contrary, it will give all people the rights that those of us who are not gay have.
This is a matter of equality. It truly is about equal rights, not just marriage. As someone once told me, "You spent $50 to get a marriage license, we spent $1,500 to have an attorney draw up powers of attorney to protect our relationship."

Shame on the LDS Church for giving misleading information to its members and the public at large through this and other newspapers.

We hope she gets AIDS also from her behavioral problem's. Than God will sort it out when she to is Judged up there.

Yet again it looks more and more like California is going to be a moot point in the marriage issue. Massachusetts, Connecticut making the right decision on this issue means that the LDS church has spent a lot of your tithing money and your time and acheived NOTHING.

Great job Connecticut! Who's next to do the right thing??

A couple days ago I saw it in a newspaper - don't remember which one that Florida is also pushing for 'gay marriage rights'

The world is becoming a very evil place in which those who try to do what is right are call bigot and right is being called wrong and wrong is being called right.

Yea!

Like a stone cut from a mountain.

Separate is NOT equal!

Some prayers do get answered.

It would be great if people in each state voted democratically in favor of these civil rights. But it's nice to know homosexuals still have recourse in the courts.

While everyone has been crying "activist judges!" it's been the executive branch, not the judicial branch, that has trampled the Constitution and seized extraordinary and unequal power.

Hallelujah! I am pleased to celebrate a time that will go down in history as the greatest advance in the cause of freedom since the American Civil Rights Movement!

Some of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters have been fighting long to cash a check issued by our founding fathers. The check was a promise that all mankind -- yes, even gays and lesbians -- would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These rights include the right to decide with whom you will share your life, the liberty to marry whom you choose, and the pursuit of happiness with that person.

For too long, America in general, and California in particular, have defaulted on that promise insofar as their gay and lesbian citizens are concerned. For too long, when they have gone to the Government offices with their check, they have been sent away with it stamped "insufficient funds" and their application for a marriage license stamped "rejected."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of liberty and justice contains insufficient funds in the great vaults of "liberty and justice for all" to deliver on their promise!

Let freedom ring!

What's the difference between a civil union and marriage? Rights-wise, apparently nothing. But to gays and lesbians, they think somehow this will make them "normal" to the rest of us.

Bad news for you. No court or politician will ever change that.

More bad news - even Obama and Biden are also against gay marriage, along with over 75% of the US population.

re Martin 6:11 pm -

I was about to reply, but I need to go brush my teeth after throwing up in my mouth while reading your comment.

Congratulations...you may now reap the consequences of that which you sow.

BYU students from California listened in Provo stake centers on Wednesday, as LDS Church leaders led a broadcast regarding the church's support of Proposition 8, the California amendment overturning same-sex marriage. "You don't expect the church to get behind things like this," said Chelsea Martinez, 20, a statistics major from Gonzales, Calif., who viewed the broadcast at a local stake center. Similar to other students attending the broadcast, Martinez's parents have participated in the church's effort by going door-to-door to identify voter preferences and are working to persuade undecided voters to help pass Proposition 8. During the broadcast, Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles focused on the importance of family and marriage and encouraged both single and married students to "use their unique position to influence the world for good. He urged listeners to join in the conversation through the Internet and to be strong in defending our position. He said the world's definition of tolerance has come to mean condone. However, tolerance does not require abandoning one's standards. It's also time to vote all the liberal's out of Office everywhere, it's them, that are pushing for this. Vote for Sarah and McCain.

Thank you Connecticut for realizing that everyone deserves to have the same rights. Thank you for realizing that we should not discriminate, or fear those who are different, and if we don't agree with the things they do, as long as it is not harming us, should let them live their lives. Thank you for acting like it is 2008 and not 1968! God Bless!

Yep...it looks like the words "with Liberty and Justice for ALL." will finally mean something. Be Proud, Connecticut, Be Proud.

YAY! It is just a matter of time Utah...

Thanks to this poor decision the next "Neo-Freedom" (just after the right of a healthy mother to abort a healthy fetus) is that of homosexuals getting married.

Next will come the argument against age discrimination or age-ism. And so the logical step will be the ability of 50 year old men to marry 14 year old girls and boys. Heck, "They love each other and it is mutual." Same justifications given by the Same-Sex Marriage proponents. I really worry about the direction this has taken. Nobody seems to be able to stop the new love train.