This also made me smile!
NJ ruled barring same sex marriages is discrimination:
HELD: Denying committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts bears no substantial relationship to a legitimate governmental purpose. The Court holds that under the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes. The name to be given to the statutory scheme that provides full rights and benefits to samesex couples, whether marriage or some other term, is a matter left to the democratic process.
Woohoo!! Go New Jersey!!
HELD: Denying committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts bears no substantial relationship to a legitimate governmental purpose. The Court holds that under the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes. The name to be given to the statutory scheme that provides full rights and benefits to samesex couples, whether marriage or some other term, is a matter left to the democratic process.
Woohoo!! Go New Jersey!!
posted by Meegs | 2:43 PM
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Yes, it was a good day for the citizens of NJ. Now let's see what the legislature does with it.
Heard on the radio: The good news is that homnosexual couples in New Jersey now have the same rights as heterosexual couples. The bad news is that they still live in New Jersey.*
*As a homegrown Jersey boy I used to take umbrage at Garden State slurs, but I now collect them.
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