The highest courts of Massachusetts and New York have enshrined as law diametrically opposite views on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Two years ago, the Bay State legalized it; on July 7, the Empire State rejected it.
Now, the Connecticut Supreme Court is poised to weigh in, following the July 12 ruling against same-sex marriage by New Haven Superior Court Judge Patty Jenkins Pittman. The Supreme Court’s decision, however, promises to be anything but a carbon copy of the New York ruling. That’s because both parties in Elizabeth Kerrigan, et al. v. Connecticut discount the New York Court of Appeals’ controversial rationale that heterosexual marriage is better for children.
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