Lawyers representing eight same-sex couples in Connecticut who say their civil unions aren’t enough and they want gay marriage begin presenting oral arguments at the state Supreme Court today. Lawyer: “A law that says every right, every benefit and every legal aspect of marriage is given to same-sex couples shows that this is nothing more than a legislative policy decision of a special legal institution. The legislature already determined a fundamental sameness between couples. Constitutional law has discarded long ago any notion that a separate institution for a minority can ever be equal.”