go New England!
Oct. 2nd, 2005 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonConnecticut's First Same-Sex Unions Proceed Civilly
That's three...Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut. Now if we can pull it off up here in New Hampshire (an uphill battle), and Maine (likewise), all of upper New England will not only be blue, but rainbow. Ah-yup.
excerpt:
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 1 -- Connecticut became the third state to offer same-sex couples a legal way to unite, issuing its first licenses for "civil unions" Saturday in what seemed too low-key to be a milestone in a cultural fight that has divided the nation.
Here in Hartford -- where a rainbow flag hung outside City Hall and the clerk's office opened for special Saturday hours -- 26 couples came in to get licenses for the unions, which offer the same benefits as traditional marriage under state law.
That's three...Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut. Now if we can pull it off up here in New Hampshire (an uphill battle), and Maine (likewise), all of upper New England will not only be blue, but rainbow. Ah-yup.
excerpt:
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 1 -- Connecticut became the third state to offer same-sex couples a legal way to unite, issuing its first licenses for "civil unions" Saturday in what seemed too low-key to be a milestone in a cultural fight that has divided the nation.
Here in Hartford -- where a rainbow flag hung outside City Hall and the clerk's office opened for special Saturday hours -- 26 couples came in to get licenses for the unions, which offer the same benefits as traditional marriage under state law.
