Civil Unions to get the go ahead in CT

[julialnyc]

Legislators Back Same-Sex Unions
?Judiciary Committee Would Make Connecticut Second State To Extend Civil Protections
February 24, 2005
By DANIELA ALTIMARI, Courant Staff Writer
 

A key legislative committee made history Wednesday by endorsing a measure that would make Connecticut the second state in the nation to adopt civil unions for same-sex couples.

After a lively two-hour debate, the judiciary committee approved the civil unions bill by a 2-1 ratio in a largely bipartisan vote.

The proposal needs the approval of the full House and Senate and Gov. M. Jodi Rell to become law. But if that happens - and several lawmakers predicted it would - Connecticut would join Vermont as the only other state to extend nearly all of the rights and responsibilities of marriage to gay and lesbian couples.

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-gaywed0224.artfeb24,0,1291228.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking

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[Beetwasher]

1. A Victory For Freedom and Civil Rights

What else needs to be said? I hope it does pass in CT and I hope the NY Appeals court upholds the lower court ruling re: gay marriage in NY. The NE will be come a beacon of freedom for the rest of the country.

[julialnyc]

2. The CT bill looks like it will pass

Anne Coulter must be going crazy (she's from CT)

[sui generis]

3. she should be happy

she will finally be able to come out of the closet and date and marry someone of her own sex openly.

[julialnyc]

4. Well, since she wrote today that it is Dem's that are the homophobes

regarding Gannon, maybe she'll be just peachy with this.

She may call me a femi-Nazi, but I can call her a femi-NOT-see