Washington (OTL) - Despite a great deal of controversy, Connecticut has fully legalized gay marriage.
Connecticut, located in New England, on the East Coast of the United States, is now the third state, behind Massachusetts and California, that has allowed legal marriage between gays.
In an 85-page decision released at 11:30 a.m., the court ruled that the state had “failed to establish adequate reason to justify the statutory ban on same sex marriage.”
For this reason, four years ago, four gay couples reported to the state saying their constitutional rights were being denied by not permitting them to get a marriage license.
They said the state’s marriage law, if applied only to heterosexual couples, denied them of the financial, social and emotional benefits of marriage.
In a very close vote of four votes to three, the Supreme Court ruled that the state has not provided adequate validation for excluding same-sex couples from the institution of marriage.