Same-Sex Weddings Start in Connecticut

Connecticut has become the second state in the United States to allow same-sex “marriage.” Dozens of homosexual couples received marriage licenses on Wednesday after the state’s highest court cleared the way to legalize the unions.

The ceremonies come one month after the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that same-sex “marriages” are legal and a week after Connecticut voters rejected a ballot initiative to ban them.

Homosexual rights are expanding throughout the Northeast. Massachusetts was the first state to legalize homosexual “marriage” back in 2003, and Vermont and New Hampshire have legalized same-sex civil unions. Homosexual rights organizations are hopeful that other New England states will follow Connecticut’s lead.

Conservative commentators have pointed to three states banning homosexual “marriage” on Election Day as proof that Americans are morally conservative. But as Trumpet columnist Stephen Flurry wrote last week, thin victories banning same-sex “marriage” are not exactly resounding statements of a moral revival in America. And angry homosexuals are working already to reverse the ban.

In California, homosexual activists and their supporters, who might otherwise be lauding “the will of the people” if the vote had gone their way, have staged protests throughout California every day since the people overturned the state supreme court ruling. They have also filed three lawsuits asking the state supreme court to overturn the people’s decision. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said, “It’s unfortunate, obviously, but it’s not the end. I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area.”

U.S. Newswrites that “the fierce battle over this culture war issue appears to be far from over.” The Trumpet forecasts that American morality will lose.