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by William E. May, Ph.D, Senior Fellow
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 Here I examine Charles J. Reid, Jr’s “Marriage: Its Relationship to Religion, Law, and the State,” Douglas Laycock’s “Afterword,” and offer final comments.
I summarized pp. 157-176 of Reid’s chapter in Part I of this review; in them he showed that traditionally in Western civilization and particularly in Anglo-American history marriage was regarded as “a divine institution.” Here I focus on the section “Marriage and the State” (176-187) and on his “Conclusion” (187-188).
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12/11/2008
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The Supreme Court of Connecticut has rendered that state the latest in the growing number of states asserting a state constitutional mandate to recognize marriage rights for same-sex couples. (Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health). In Kerrigan, Connecticut’s highest court held that it was a violation of the state’s constitutional equal protection guarantee to allow same-sex couples all of the benefits associated with marriage, by means of the “civil union” classification, but to deny them the status of marriage.
