High Court Grants Marriage Rights For Same-Sex Couples (Connecticut)

Hartford Courant ^ | 10/10/08 | MARK SPENCER, ALAINE GRIFFIN, DANIELA ALTIMARI and BILL LEUKHARDT

[truthandlife]

(COURTESY OF GLAD / October 10, 2008) Carol Conklin and Janet Peck of Colchester have been together for 32 years. They knew each other in high school and reconnected after college. Both women were born and raised in Connecticut and now own local businesses. Peck has a mental health counseling practice and Conklin is an electrician and home contractor. The women say they realized firsthand how important a marriage license is when Conklin was denied access to visit Peck in intensive care after she was recovering from surgery to remove tumors from her liver.

[truthandlife]

David and Busch

(COURTESY OF GLAD / October 10, 2008)

Stephen David and Jeffrey Busch moved to Busch's hometown of Wilton in 1997. There, they have built a family with the addition of their son Elijah in 2002. Davis runs the digital library program at Columbia University, where he has worked since 1988, and Busch is an administrative judge and part-time legal services lawyer in New York City. They have been together since 1989. They have a civil union.

[GatorGirl]

Ugh, you can take care of ALL the legal issues with proper paperwork—health care surrogate, power of attorney, wills, etc....

They do NOT need to get married!

[Comparative Advantage]

No surprise. The robed dictators have spoken in another state.

[marymaryquitecontrary]

Is this the part where we’re supposed to take cheap shots at these people’s appearance and make lewd jokes? Count me in!

[Jim Noble]

he women say they realized firsthand how important a marriage license is when Conklin was denied access to visit Peck in intensive care after she was recovering from surgery to remove tumors from her liver.

I bet that's a lie.

I've practiced HIV medicine since 1982. I've been involved in THOUSANDS of partner visitation situations in four states.

I've been asked by advocacy organizations to testify about visitation denial - I've never seen a case - not one - unless it involved a married man whose legal wife (next-of-kin) denied his boyfriend a visit.

But that's a special circumstance, one not easily resolved by legislation.

[Roamin53]

Which one is the husband?

[truthandlife]

We are losing this country to the liberal judges, the corrupt media and the politicians who have no accountability.

We live in an “age that anything goes.”

[Cicero]

Justices Flemming L. Norcott Jr., Joette Katz, Richard Palmer and Appellate Judge Lubbie Harper, sitting for Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers, who recused herself, formed the majority.

Does anyone know why Chase T. Rogers recused herself? This may have been the deciding factor in this 4-3 outcome. She was first appointed to the judiciary by Rowland, and promoted to her present position by Rell. Neither governor is a strong conservative, but both are Republicans.

Why did she recuse herself in favor of someone she probably knew would support gay marriage?

Her capsule bio is here:

http://www.jud.ct.gov/external/supapp/justiceRogers.html

[CounterCounterCulture]

(looks at pic)

What, have laws against incest been struck down too?

[Cicero]

I just googled Lubbie Harper, who I assumed from the name was another woman judge. He's not:

[Clintonfatigued]

It happened again.

I’m all for “live and let live,” but the militant gay activists are trying to ram their lifestyles down the throats of everyone else. This isn’t tolerance, it’s forced state sanction.

[exit82]

The love that dare not speak its name.

Nor show its picture.

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[gidget7]

Of course they don't need marriage. But it isn't what this is all about. They want to destroy the concept of family and and all moral norms. Anyone who doesn't believe that, has blinders on.

The only thing we can do as a society is to make it “cost” the states who enact homosexual imitation marriage. There are many ways to do that.

If you own a business in a town that has a depravity pride parade, close your business that day, and if not, steer clear of the town for the day.

Do everything in your power to NOT spend in these states. Many ways to accomplish that. (Aside from perishables of course)

If you or someone you know is planning a wedding, first have them insist on Holy Matrimony, not civil marriage. If your church doesn't differentiate, find one that does. And get as much of the needs for the wedding OUTSIDE of the state. Window shop in state if need be, purchase it out of state. From a state that does not sanction homosexual imitation marriage. Even more ideally, get married elsewhere, at least it won't be meaningless. When marriage can mean anything, it means nothing!

It isn't what people would prefer, but start avoiding businesses that promote this atrocious fakery. But be prepared, the schools will if they aren't already. THAT is what this is really all about, getting to the children and as early as possible. Homeschool, if you can. If not, look for a charter school that doesn't follow state curriculum, or send your children to Christian or Catholic schools. Most will work you if you cannot afford it.

There are other things, but this is a start. It must cost these states, so that it makes it unprofitable to push this agenda. It will go nationwide if we do not stop it!

[Tanniker Smith]

Yet again by a one-vote margin.

[supercat]

Can anyone identify any society of non-trivial size (>10,000 people), at any time in human history, which has lasted for a non-trivial duration (>100 years) without recognizing the concept of a marriage, and requiring all marriages contain exactly one male principal?

I recall there have been a few (very few) tribal societies which allow for polyandry, but I don't think they meet the non-trivial size requirement.

The concept of a one-husband marriage is not a 'religion' thing, since it's universal throughout the most atheistic societies as well as the most religious. Indeed, I can think of few things that are more universal than single-husband marriage.

[Dilbert San Diego]

What’s galling to me about these homosexual marriage court cases is that the judges are making up the law as they go along. Family law talks about men and women, male and female. It does not talk about homosexuality at all. All men and all women are treated equally under traditional marriage laws. There is no basis for an equal treatment of laws lawsuit. Yet now three states have made up the laws to allow homosexual marriage by pretending that homosexual males are not males, and that homosexual females are not female.

Maybe there is a case to be made to give homosexual couples marriage rights. Maybe somehow it’s good for society to do that. But the same-sex marriage court cases are all about how it’s discriminatory not to have same-sex marriage, rather than discussing at all why it’s good for society to have homosexual marriage.

[Mr. Silverback]

Creepy how alike they look.