All is not well in Connecticut

Well, the good news is that the Connecticut Civil Union bill passed overwhelmingly in the Senate on Wednesday.

The bad news is that the bill will be going back to the Planning and Development Committee. At every stop our opponents attempt to amend it with a so-called “Defense of Marriage Amendment” (DOMA) that would limit marriage as ONLY between one man and one woman. They want to do this so that in the future, we will be blocked from ever achieving full marriage equality.

I have written a personal letter to my senator since he was one of the 9 senators who voted for the DOMA the first time around. I posted my letter to him. It won’t make a difference - he won’t change his mind.

On top of this, Governor M. Jodi Rell has stated that she may not sign the Civil Union bill if the DOMA isn’t part of it. Right now, Connecticut is ONE of only NINE states that does not have a DOMA. In a couple of weeks, we may have one.

This is really getting me down. Why can’t they just let us have the dignity of basic equality? I’m so tired of this already.

They are going to do whatever it is they want to do. There’s really nothing I can do about it at this point. I’m going to do yard work this weekend. At least when I’m doing that, inequality doesn’t matter - unless the next bill says that gay couples can’t own property together. Honestly, nothing would surprise me anymore.