Same sex marriage ban is overturned in Connecticut

 Thank you Connecticut for overturning this ban!!!!!!! 

Connecticut court overturns gay marriage ban

REUTERS
Reuters North American News Service

Oct 10, 2008 10:38 EST

BOSTON (Reuters) – The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage Friday in a victory for gay-rights advocates that will allow couples to marry in the New England state.

The court found that the state’s law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.

Connecticut is now the third state in the country to allow gay marriage, following neighboring Massachusetts, the first state to allow it, and California.

Connecticut already permitted same-sex civil unions that grant largely the same state rights as to married couples, but lack the full, federal legal protections of marriage. (Reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss)