PHOTOS: CLINTON CURTIS-QUERCI
GAY MARRIAGE IN CONNECTICUT
Connecticut Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage. Gay couples can begin getting married from November 12 2008. The Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that denying gays the right to marry was against the equality and liberty rules in the Connecticut Constitution. A poll released April 7, 2005, shows 53% approved same-sex marriage, while 42% opposed. (Wikipedia)
With all the furor over California's Prop 8, we have forgotten that there are pockets of hope left in the US. Congratulations, Connecticut!
GAY MARRIAGE IN MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts Same-Sex Marriage: Gay couples have had equal marriage rights in the state since 2004. Couples must be residents of Massachusetts.
GAY MARRIAGE AROUND THE WORLD
The global trend is towards equality and many nations have since legalized gay marriage and many more have same-sex marriage legislation in discussion. Look for a big trend throughout Europe: equality and human rights are the founding platforms in the creation of the EU.
Canada Gay couples can be married nationwide since 2005.
South Africa Gay marriage legalized in 2006.
Spain Embraced same-sex marriage in 2005.
The Netherlands The first country to legalize Same-sex marriage in 2001.
Belgium The second country to legalize gay marriage in 2003.
Norway Same-sex couples can be married from January 1, 2009.
California same-sex marriages on hold until further notice.
California Will Continue to Honor Marriages of Same-Sex Couples Who Married Before the Possible Passage of Prop 8
Initiative Would Only Apply to Future Marriages
The California Attorney General, Equality California, and the nation’s leading LGBT legal groups agree that the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who married between June 16, 2008 and the possible passage of Proposition 8 are still valid in the state of California and must continue to be honored by the state.
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Same-Sex Marriage Ban Wins; Opponents Sue to Block Measure
John Wildermuth & Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle November 5, 2008
After a heated, divisive campaign, California voters have approved Proposition 8, which would change the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Opponents promptly filed suit to try to block the measure from taking effect. The suit argued that Prop. 8 would change the California Constitution in such fundamental ways - taking important rights away from a minority group - that it amounted to a constitutional revision, which requires approval by the Legislature before being submitted to the voters. The case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. The same groups asked the court before the election to remove Prop. 8 from the ballot on those grounds. The justices refused, but left the door open for a post-election challenge.
APSAA supports same-sex marriage
The American Psychoanalytic Association supports the legal recognition of same-sex civil marriage with all the rights, benefits and responsibilities conferred by civil marriage, and opposes discrimination against same-sex couples, and the denial to same-sex couples these same rights, benefits and responsibilities.
