{news} Fw: Latest News re: Civil Unions in Connecticut

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From: Chelsea Turner 
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: Latest News re: Civil Unions in Connecticut


The Attorney General's office has just issued an opinion at the request of the Department of Public Health about CT recognizing other state's laws on same sex relationships. Here is the link to that opinion:http://www.cslib.org/attygenl/mainlinks/tabindex7.htm    

 

Below is an Associated Press article about this opinion:

 

      AP STATE WIRE
     

Blumenthal: Out-of-state civil unions to be recognized

September 20, 2005 
Associated Press 

 

      HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut will recognize civil unions and domestic partnerships from other states but not same-sex marriages from neighboring Massachusetts when a new law allowing civil unions takes effect here Oct. 1.

      Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that Connecticut will not recognize same-sex marriages because the legislature has defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

      "Civil unions performed in other states are entitled to full faith and credit in Connecticut, and cannot be repeated here. Out-of-state same-sex marriages have no legal force and effect here," Blumenthal wrote in a legal opinion requested by the state's Department of Public Health, which administers marriage licenses.

      Those married, same-sex couples, however, will be able to enter into civil unions in Connecticut.

      Currently, Vermont is the only state outside Connecticut that allows civil unions. Massachusetts is the only state that allows same-sex marriages. Several states, including California, New Jersey and Maine, allow some form of same-sex domestic partnership.
     

 
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