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LEGAL BRIEF FILED IN GAY MARRIAGE CASE |
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Hartford-AP A legal brief has been filed with Connecticut's Supreme Court in legal motions that argue that the state should allow gay marriages.
The legal brief filed today claims that Connecticut's refusal to allow same-sex couples to marry violates basic constitutional rights guaranteed to all the state's citizens.
The brief was filed on behalf of eight gay and lesbian couples.
Lawyers for the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, along with other attorneys, filed the brief in the couples' appeal of a lower court's decision earlier this year.
The lower court ruled that gay and lesbian couples were not harmed by the state's decision in 2005 to legalize same-sex civil unions rather than grant them marriage rights.
Connecticut became the second state in the nation, after Vermont, to allow civil unions.
Source: outinhartford.com |
