Commission says New Jersey should allow gay marriage

[VADem11]

Commission says New Jersey should allow gay marriage
by Susan K. Livio and Claire Heininger/The Star-Ledger
Tuesday December 09, 2008, 8:48 PM

New Jersey should enact a law allowing gay marriage and waste no time passing it because the state's civil unions law fails to adequately protect same-sex couples, a report to be released Wednesday concludes.

The final report of the New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission says it gathered "overwhelming evidence" the civil union law not only fails to provide the same protections as marriage, it also has created economic, medical and emotional hardships for gay couples.

The commission concluded that denying same-sex couples the right to marry is as unjust as government imposing racial segregation laws against African-Americans.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/goldstein.html

Hopefully, this will lead to full marriage equality and NJ will become the first state to have marriage equality through the legislature.

[hendo]

1. good news

I hope it does lead to full marriage equality in NJ, and that that is a sign that it will lead to full marriage equality around the country. SCOTUS needs to rule.

[bluedawg12]

2. Excellent! Commission finds seperate is not equal.

I hope NJ does the right thing.

[defendandprotect]

3. Good to hear and hope they move quickly ... my state ...

I'll send some encouraging e-mails tomorrow --!!

[Maven]

4. K/R!

[Maven]

5. BTW the comments on that site are being freeped.

Some hateful shit there.

[LostinVA]

6. Haruka is reading them now -- TOTALLY Freeped

Look at some of their screen names ""NJBlows," Jerseysucks," etc.).Plus, the big majority are for gay marriage rights -- those comments are NOT representative of the state.