Nice pictures from parade celebrating the gay marriage bill in New York.
I was interested in this story in the Globe, in which several folks from the state to the North gloat about the fact that they beat New York to the punch.
That’s all true, but I think Connecticut’s experience puts us above all the rest. Our gay marriage was mandated by our Supreme Court, as happened in Massachusetts, so it was not quite the triumph as the legislative victory in New York. On the other hand, our legislature passed enabling legislation without much fuss at all.
But I think our distinction lies in the public reaction, or to be more precise, the relative lack of any public reaction. It might be stretching it to say that there was nary a ripple, but the waters stayed exceedingly calm. Even the usual suspects (the Catholic Church, etc.) did not go into the hysterics so common elsewhere, and to the extent they did, they got no traction. We can be justly proud that our reaction was sort of a non-reaction. As a (at least I think) result, oddly enough, Connecticut seems to go missing as often as not when states that allow gay marriage are mentioned in the press.
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