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I'm very pleased to note that Connecticut's legislators have joined Vermont's in approving

a measure that strives to strike a balance between the rights of gay couples and the rights of religious institutions that object to same-sex marriage.

A spokesman for Gov. M. Jodi Rell said she will sign the bill.

Votes in both the House of Representatives and the Senate came after hours of often impassioned discourse that touched on broad themes of religious liberty, freedom from discrimination and the state's long history of tolerance. The debate capped a multi-faceted campaign by gay marriage opponents that included newspaper and radio ads and messages from the pulpit.

I became very attuned to this issue (and its concomitant vote) because for the last several days I received unsolicited homophobic robocalls (and one mailing) from something calling itself the National Organization for Marriage, which apparently still believes that "gay marriage has real consequences for religious liberty." Exactly what those consequences are aren't entirely clear to me, but that's their position, and they're sticking to it.

It's kind of instructive to review how Lewis Black feels about this dire threat (salient portion starts about 3:40 in):