Congratulations to the people of Connecticut for enlarging their understanding of human rights to include gay couples wishing to be married. On election day, the citizens of Connecticut turned away an attempt by the theocons to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of overturning the ruling of the state's supreme court that equality before the law means equality for gay people, too. As of today, gays are getting married, and "equal" in Connecticut really does mean "equal."
Looking ahead to 2009, we can look expect more advances in New York and possibly New Jersey. In Vermont, public hearings have been examining whether to extend marriage rights to civil unions. And of course, the battle continues in California; 43 legislators have just signed their names to a friend of the court brief urging the state's supreme court to stay Proposition 8.
What a different time for American gays A.D. 2008 is compared to just 10 years ago when even civil unions were anathema to just about everybody in the country. Now civil unions are the Religious Right's compromise position! Full equality before the law will belong to gay people in this country very soon.
Read the happy news here!
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