Connecticut's Not All Bad

The home of John Rowland and Joementum isn't entirely in lockstep with the G.O.P., it seems.

HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 1 -- Connecticut became the third state to offer same-sex couples a legal way to unite, issuing its first licenses for "civil unions" Saturday in what seemed too low-key to be a milestone in a cultural fight that has divided the nation.

Of course, there are still a few righteous men:

A few blocks away, in a deserted downtown that showed few signs of anything but Saturday going on, a Reclaim Connecticut Protest on the steps of the state capitol drew a few dozen opponents of civil unions.

Brian Brown, a leading opponent of civil unions in the state, told the crowd that much more political activism would be needed to fulfill their eventual goal: a constitutional amendment eliminating same-sex unions.

"This is a tragic day for our state's children," said Brown, whose organization, the Family Institute of Connecticut, contends that children develop best in a household with heterosexual parents. "We have a lot to do and a very short time to do it."

Yes, Bri, it's a tragedy that homosexuals are allowed to enter into civil unions while heterosexual family men like former Waterbury, CT mayor Philip Giordano sit in prison because of their sexuality. How can Giordano's three young sons develop into morally straight men when they are deprived of a male, heterosexual role model?