“Democrat Reps Split on Gay Marriage”
April 9th, 2007 by Peter
Liberal bloggers have tried hard to foster the false impression that the Judiciary Committee’s African-American members were unanimously opposed to Brian during his testimony against same-sex “marriage.” As is the case with so much else that our opponents would like the public to believe about that hearing, the truth intrudes on their plans. From a Stamford Times profile of Democrat Rep. Bruce Morris and one of his colleagues:
Morris, who is black and a minister, represents predominantly minority South Norwalk. Morris insisted his objections to gay marriage are not religious, and said many of his constituents “feel that marriage is historically, culturally, traditionally and, from a state perspective, a right between a man and a woman.”
Gay couples are entitled to equal rights under the civil unions law passed in 2005. That law, which took effect last year, mirror’s Connecticut’s marriage law in all but name.
Civil unions provide “all the benefits of a married person that the state is legally able to confer,” Morris said. “However, it specifies that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Historically and culturally that has been the case. I haven’t heard any testimony to this point that would support the government redefining marriage.”
