In a 20-14 vote, the New Jersey Senate struck down a marriage equality bill today. The move is frustrating, but not unexpected considering that the state recently voted in Republican Chri
s Christie as their governor and he promised to veto the bill if it passed. The legislation needed 21 votes to move forward into the State Assembly.
New Jersey does, however, offer civil unions to same-sex couples affording most of the legal rights that marriage does. But that's not enough for some in the LGBT community, especially considerin a unanimous 2006 ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court that stated same-sex couples had to be treated equally under the state's Constitution. Armed with that precedent, Garden State Equality plans to hit the courts to win marriage rights for New Jersey gays.
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Well, i just made that up, so there probably isn't any truth to it, though I'm sure some of them from both parties are in the closet and hypocrites, not just regular bigots.
I don't see how the Supreme Court can rationally deny the right to gay marriage based on precedent, but rationality may not come into play, and I wouldn't be surprised if the conservative-leaning justices find a way to pull an anti-gay-marriage rabbit out of their judicial hats.
The idea of Gay marriage is both rediculous, and destructive to our society of Americans that have been raised, and expect rightly so- to not wake up one morning and find that the sanctity of marriage is no longer a tradition of sacred values reserved for a man, and woman.