Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Lawyers Argue Legal Status of Gay Unions

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/nyregion/15civil.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[The New York Times] 16 May 2007--Connecticut’s highest court became the first in the nation on Monday to hear arguments over whether the establishment of civil unions created a fundamentally inferior status for gays and lesbians. But in pondering a new appeal for same-sex marriage, the State Supreme Court’s seven justices also focused on another fundamental question: whether laws that make distinctions based on sexual orientation, like those governing marriage, merit scrutiny similar to that given laws that discriminate based on race or gender.

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