By ANDY SOLTIS with Post Wires
Posted: 4:33 am
October 11, 2008
Gay New Yorkers can take a quicker drive to a wedding chapel now that Connecticut's highest court has struck down a law banning same-sex marriage.
Yesterday's 4-3 state Supreme Court ruling makes the Nutmeg State the nation's third, after Massachusetts and California, to legalize marriage between two men or two women.
Gay-rights experts expect a significant number of couples from the city and elsewhere in New York state to make the short drive on I-95 and the Merritt Parkway - especially since Connecticut has no residency requirement for marriage and, unlike Massachusetts, no waiting period.
The ruling is to take effect Oct. 28, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said.
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