BRIDE AND PREJUDICE: From the New Haven Advocate

The Senate's most zealous Christian conservative loses his seat to a Democrat who favors near-gay-marriage.

The Republican chief executive "supports equal rights and opposes discrimination in any form for any couple."

What planet are we on?

Planet Connecticut, 2004. ...

"The real discussion," says state Rep. Mike Lawlor, "seems to be whether you want to settle for civil unions or hold out for marriage." ...

You remember civil unions. Four years ago when Vermont became the first (and so far only) state to allow this marriage-in-all-but-name, it was revolutionary. Opponents predicted that legislators who voted for civil unions--in order to comply with a state Supreme Court ruling--would lose their jobs that fall.

Most stayed in office. By now, a large majority of Vermont voters support civil unions. As do a majority of Connecticut voters: 59 percent in a Quinnipiac poll this June, 74 percent in a UConn poll in April. ...

There's one point on which Brown and Lawlor agree: Civil unions are marriage by a different name (though the name is an important difference). And if the first one passes, the goal will be to make it a stepping-stone to the second.

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