It's Official! Congrats Connecticut! Same Sex Marriage Is Now Legal!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

Connecticut has joined its neighbor Massachusetts! Kudos to both states for being enlightened!

http://wcbstv.com/national/connecticut.same.sex.2.862131.html

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Pab Sungenis]

1. Do they perform out-of-state marriages?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. I honestly don't know but you can check with the state now. :)

[sharp_stick]

3. Yes they do

The question is whether the State the out of Staters (sp?) is from will recognize them. I think CT is expecting a lot of New Yorkers because NY is accepting the license as valid.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. My Governor, David Paterson gave orders in the spring that NY was to recognize

same sex marriages from all states and counties where it's legal. :)

[AldebTX]

4. Woo Hoo

Looks like I will be heading east rather then west to get married. Maybe I will spend a little extra money while there to thank Connecticut.

[annabanana]

6. This war WILL be won.

1) Love finds a way
and
2) The American People are already there.

Chin up California (& Tennessee & wherever else this last gasp was thrown up)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Keith had me weeping with his special comment about Prop 8 passing ..here's the end excerpt

of his comment.

(I am a heterosexual, divorced woman and cannot understand how anyone can oppose same-sex marriage. I just don't get it.)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27650743/

You are asked now, by your country, and perhaps by your creator, to stand on one side or another. You are asked now to stand, not on a question of politics, not on a question of religion, not on a question of gay or straight. You are asked now to stand, on a question of love. All you need do is stand, and let the tiny ember of love meet its own fate.

You don't have to help it, you don't have it applaud it, you don't have to fight for it. Just don't put it out. Just don't extinguish it. Because while it may at first look like that love is between two people you don't know and you don't understand and maybe you don't even want to know. It is, in fact, the ember of your love, for your fellow person just because this is the only world we have. And the other guy counts, too.

This is the second time in ten days I find myself concluding by turning to, of all things, the closing plea for mercy by Clarence Darrow in a murder trial.

But what he said, fits what is really at the heart of this:

"I was reading last night of the aspiration of the old Persian poet, Omar-Khayyam," he told the judge. It appealed to me as the highest that I can vision. I wish it was in my heart, and I wish it was in the hearts of all: So I be written in the Book of Love; I do not care about that Book above. Erase my name, or write it as you will, So I be written in the Book of Love."

[bdamomma]

7. very good news.

enlightened is the word too. geez, if they want to get married let them get married.

[HamdenRice]

9. Excellent news! nt

[SoCalNative]

10. I'm sure the Mormons will start a drive there too

to make it illegal, even if it isn't so easy to get things changed there.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. I'm in NY and never met a Mormon here in my life. I know Romney was Gov of Mass,

but I think the Mormon population must be miniscule here in the Northeast. So far, the Mormons haven't interfered with Massachusetts.