{"id":7256,"date":"2005-04-14T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/04\/14\/i-suppose-of-both-sides-are-pleased-and-offended-its-a-good-law.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:44:31","slug":"i_suppose_of_bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/14\/i_suppose_of_bo.html","title":{"rendered":"I suppose of both sides are pleased and offended, it’s a good law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connecticut seems well on its way to being the first state to have a non-court-ordered civil unions law for same-sex couples.<\/a> The state Senate earlier approved a measure that, somewhat amended, has now passed the state House. The governor is expected to sign the amended bill if the Senate then passes it.<\/p>\n

Gay rights folks are happy because it provides a legal mechanism for recognition and protection of their relationships and rights.<\/p>\n

Opponents are unhappy, because (they say) it “harms marriage” — noting (with some justice) that it’s just marriage-by-another-name. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, opponent are happy because the House inserted an amendment to explicitly identify “marriage” (marriage-by-its-own-name, so to speak) as being between one man and one woman. Thus somehow belying the argument that the civil union law is the same as marriage, since it now, quite clearly, would not be.<\/p>\n

Which, in turn, has made gay rights folks unhappy.<\/p>\n

I suspect, if both sides are willing to hold onto the parts that make them happy, <\/em>and not go ballistic over the parts that make them unhappy, <\/em>that this is something that most on both sides can live with. Which, to my mind, makes it a good law (all to rare a duck these days).<\/p>\n

(via Scott<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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