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Connecticut Civil Unions

Connecticut Civil Unions

Earlier this week, Connecticut became the second state after Vermont to recognize same-sex civil unions. It was the first state to do so by an act of the legislature rather than the judiciary. The good news is that this milestone caused barely a ripple, news-wise. The other good news is that couples unionized (or is that “civilized”?) under the new law “shall have all the same benefits, protections and responsibilities under law, whether derived from the general statutes, administrative regulations or court rules, policy, common law or any other source of civil law, as are granted to spouses in a marriage (State of Connecticut, Public Act No. 05-10, Sec. 14).” (The big exception is

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