The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned the state's three-year-old ban on same-sex marriage Friday.
Connecticut is the third state to legalize same-sex marriage, after California overturned a similar ban in May and Massachusetts took similar action in 2004, according to The New York Times.
The legislation passed in a 4-to-3 ruling. The court found "the state had failed to provide sufficient justification for excluding same-sex couples from the institution of marriage," according to the Times.
Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote that the court found that the "segregation of heterosexual and homosexual couples into separate institutions constitutes a cognizable harm," the Times reported.
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