The Connecticut legislature is taking up a bill to implement the state supreme court’s October 2008 decision in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health requiring the recognition of same-sex marriage. The bill currently contains only a narrow religious-liberty exemption protecting clergy from having to solemnize a same-sex marriage “in violation of [their free exercise] right[s]“ – in contrast to the exemption in Vermont’s recent statute that protects religious conscientious objections to same-sex marriage in other contexts as well.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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