Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriages

Monique Jones/Editor-in-Chief

Same-sex marriages were legalized by the Connecticut Supreme Court Friday. The ruling makes Connecticut the third state in the U.S. to make same-sex marriages legal. The decision would only allow couples to have the state benefits of marriage.

In 2005, Connecticut allowed civil unions for gay couples, but eight couples sued the state, saying that civil unions were not the same as marriage and that the Connecticut constitution granted them equal treatment.

A representative of Connecticut’s commissioner of public health stated to CNN that he wasn’t sure when the state was going to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses.