Posted on 07/25/2002 6:52:34 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 07/25/2002 8:05:54 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A gay couple's attempt to have their civil union dissolved was rejected by a Connecticut appeals court Wednesday in what is believed to be the first such test of the law outside Vermont.
Glen Rosengarten and Peter Downes were married in Vermont in 2000, six months after that state enacted the first law in the nation allowing homosexual couples to enter into something akin to marriage.
The Connecticut appeals court ruled that it cannot dissolve their union because Connecticut law does not recognize such relationships.
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Was there not a recent ruling Georgia that said the Vermont law was not applicable in Georgia that preceeded the referenced ruling?
These "life partners" needed to have their "civil union" "recognized" by the state because they needed to be able to receive all of the benefits and status conveyed by the state's recognition of the union of marriage.
Now, 180 days later they are seeking to have their status recognized so the "benefit" of a divorce can be conveyed upon them.
This couldn't possibly be some legal grandstanding on their part to further an agenda, could it? I mean, it was really lifelong love and commitment for one another that was expressed and recognized by the state at their ceremony in Vermont, wasn't it?
It appears one has to be a resident, can the other be non-human? An animal? Dead?
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