“[Connecticut’s] justices of the peace can no longer refuse to perform a same-sex ceremony simply because the couple is gay Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in a legal opinion released Tuesday. “Although no state law requires justices of the peace to marry any particular couple,” as public officials they “cannot refuse to perform a marriage for discriminatory reasons,” Blumenthal said in a statement.” [Stamford Advocate]
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