Connecticut civil union statistics
The Office of Legislative Research publishes interesting reports every month. This one, published in May, was about the following:
You asked for statistics on the number of civil unions performed in Connecticut by town.
The table below displays information provided by the Department of Public Health showing the number of civil unions by town, from October 1, 2005, when the law authorizing civil unions took effect, through the end of March 2007.
The long and short of it is that there are several towns where there hasn’t been a single one (Barkhamstead, Deep River, Franklin, Hartland, Harwinton, Ledyard, North Canaan, Scotland, Sherman, Sprague, Union and West Haven) and the leaders are the major cities and towns (Hartford, Bristol, New Haven, Danbury, Enfield, Groton, Greenwich, Guilford, Hamden, Manchester, Stamford, West Hartford, Branford and Bridgeport).
In all, there were 649 unions in 2005, 722 in 2006 and 78 this year, for a total of 1449.
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about 3 years ago
What this shows that in Connecticut, which, despite its size, is a fairly diverse state (from NYC bedroom communities and yacht clubs to “urban areas” to the backwoods) has a fairly uniform distribution of homosexuals wishing to tie the knot. Even in towns where there were “zero” unions, the next town over had some.
I would like to see the anti-gay-marriage crowd try to explain away these stats.