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Not Content with Civil Unions - NJ Considers Gay Marriages

August 22, 2007 |

Civil Unions were never the end and if one thought so… well then you head was under a large rock and probably crushed. This will not end until Gay Marriage is approved. It probably won’t end there for other frontiers are ahead for the activists. Here is the current situation.

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Adults in the New Jersey are split over allowing gay and lesbian partners to enter wedlock, according to a poll by Zogby International for Garden State Equality. 48 per cent of respondents agree with giving same-sex couples the same freedom to marry as heterosexual couples, while 45 per cent disagree.

In addition, 48 per cent of respondents would let gay couples get married, 30 per cent would retain the current structure that allows New Jersey’s same-sex partners to enter civil unions, and 20 per cent would prefer to grant no legal recognition to homosexual partnerships.

In 2004, marriage certificates were issued to same-sex couples by local governments in the states of California, Oregon, New Mexico and New York. In May 2004, the state of Massachusetts allowed gay and lesbian partners to apply for marriage licenses, the first state-sanctioned homosexual weddings in the United States.

Civil union and domestic partnership laws in Vermont, Connecticut, California and New Jersey grant same-sex couples all state-level rights and obligations of marriage—in areas such as inheritance, income tax, insurance and hospital visitation. Other forms of domestic partnership exist in the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Maine. There are more than 1,000 federal-level rights of marriage that cannot be granted by states.


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  1. WILLIAM DAKOTA on August 23, 2007 8:17 am

    If two persons love one another, why can’t they get married? I have been gay all of my life but marriage has never entered my mind. Actually, I haven’t had sex with anyone, in over 11 years. Today, almost everyone knows at least one gay person. If gay marriage was legalized here in the states, how would this affect your lives? Are you worried that more people would accept being gay?
    Last year Canada legalized gay marriages. Has this changed that country? If everyone in the world loved someone, or something, there would be no room in their heart for hate.
    With marriages ending up to (50%) in divorce, it seems that is a more serious situation than allowing gay marriages. Think of the broken homes, that involves children. Which is worse?
    People are starting to realize that gays exist. They have existed ever since time began. Cavemen had drawings showing same sex persons together. All of Greek history show gay people together. “BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN,” was a box-office hit. Many television shows have a gay character in them. Many entertainers have come out of the closet. The fact is, a lot of people who are spreading hate against gays, are persons insecure with their own sexuality. By attacking gays, they feel more “straight.”
    I know of a past Judge in Lima, who is gay. A past District Attorney has a gay son, who left Lima and owned a gay bar in San Francisco. [edited for personal attacks.......]

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