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Connecticut Court Grants Gay Marriage Rights
Same-sex couples now have a right to marry in Connecticut. The state's Supreme Court ruled today that under the equal protection clause of Connecticut's constitution, civil unions discriminate against same-sex couples. Thus, gay couples must have the same rights as straight couples.
Answer to Crime? Keep People Off the Streets With Curfews?
It's just like being a teenager, except your parents are the police! And instead of grounding, they can put you in jail! Curfews are popping up in tons of places, aimed at controlling crime.
Bad Samaritans: Witnesses Stand By as Elderly Man Hit by Car
A graphic and shocking surveillance video shows a 78-year-old man struck by a hit-and-run driver in Hartford, Connecticut. In the minute and a half that followed, before the police passed by, witnesses refused to come to the man's aid.
The video shows cars passing, and dodging the motionless body.
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Flashback: What If You Had to Ask Permission to Get Married?
Sometimes empathy is the most powerful way of moving civil rights forward, which is why this PSA from 2005 is so effective. It depicts what it must feel like for gay people who are barred from legally marrying by showing a man walking from house to house asking strangers if can have his girlfriend's hand in marriage. Wow.
Cop Poses as Twin, Rapes Woman
A Connecticut police officer found himself on the wrong side of the law when he posed as his twin brother in order to have sex with an unsuspecting woman — who not incidentally was romantically involved with his brother. Jared Rohrig has now resigned from his law-enforcement job after being charged with first-degree sexual assault and criminal impersonation.
The woman realized that Jared was not his twin brother after they started having sex and she noticed that Jared didn't have a tattoo on his backside like his brother does.
Stranger Than Fiction: "Nurse of the Year" Not a Nurse
Next time you feel underappreciated, just make up an organization and give yourself a fake award! That's what Betty Lichtenstein did. The Connecticut "nurse" spent more than $2,000 for a dinner honoring herself as the Connecticut Nursing Association's "Nurse of the Year."
Prep Talk: Justifying Hazing at Boarding School
High school girls have many ways of punishing each other, the silent treatment being a classic tactic. But what about seniors marching through dorms with the precision of the gestapo, lining up freshmen, yelling at them, making them perform chores, and forcing them to count to 100 in German? It's not reform school — it's an annual ritual at Miss Porter’s, an all-girls boarding and day school in Connecticut where Gossip Girl-sounding names are as common as class rings.
Gender, Law, and Marriage: We've Got a Ways to Go
"How do we define legal gender? By chromosomes? By genitalia?
DearSugar Needs Your Help: Should I Follow My Dreams or My Heart?
DearSugar and Needy in New York need your help. She has a great job in the fashion industry, but her boyfriend of a year and a half just asked her to move to Connecticut with him so he can attend his first choice law school. She loves him dearly, but isn't sure if giving up her dream job for the man she loves is worth the risk.
Funny or Die Gets Caught Up in Gay-Marriage Storm
K, I thought this was getting old (what with this and this and, oh, that's it) and that Funny or Die's take on the gay-marriage storm was more deadly than funny. But then a Connecticut weatherman comes on and says "there's a cold front coming in and it's gay people," and gay people start falling from the sky, and I laughed. OK, I laughed.
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