Connecticut Residents Affirm State Supreme Court Decision for Gay Marriage

by Michael Jones · 2008-12-17 11:01:00 UTC
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Fifty-two percent of Connecticut residents support the State Supreme Court's October 2008 ruling establishing gay marriage, according to a new poll out today from Quinnipiac University.  Connecticut became the third state to legalize gay marriage behind Massachusetts and California (although in Prop 8's wake, California's fate is up in the air).

The poll also found that 61 percent strongly oppose any effort to amend Connecticut's constitution to ban gay marriage.  What does that mean?  Well, on its surface, it means that Connecticut is unlikely to go the way of California on the issue of gay marriage.

(For those politicos among us, the same Quinnipac University poll also found that Senator Joe Lieberman's ratings are approaching the levels of someone with the last name "Blagojevich," "Bush," or "Cheney."  Now it looks like Lieberman is at odds with his own state on gay marriage, too.  Lieberman does not support same-sex marriage, whilst the majority of Connecticut residents do.)

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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