In a 3-3 vote (one seat remains open after Gov. Chris Christie refused to appoint a new justice), New Jersey’s Supreme Court chose not to hear a same-sex marriage case from six gay couples, declining the lawsuit — which argues the state’s civil unions laws are not good enough — before it snakes through lower courts. This, even though the Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in 2006 that lawmakers must grant gay couples equal rights and benefits.
Sorry, Jersey Gays: Your Marriage Lawsuit Has To Try Harder to Reach the State Supreme Court
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Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
New Jersey provides a very clear example of why the LG community (not including B and T here because they can marry the loves of their lives) cease taking Democrat logic. NJ’s gay community was told 2 years ago that this was a done deal BUT we needed to wait for Jon Corzine and Company to finish up other important work first BEFORE tackling marriage equality.
Well that logic/strategy fails, miserably.
It is against us to wait for this, wait for that. The time for marriage equality is always NOW; that so many same-sex partners cannot and do not share the opportunity to marry the same-sex partner of their choice is ALWAYS wrong.
Ted B.
Not surprising, the NJ Court ruled that Civil Unions had to be equal-to Marriage. There’s still no adjudicated case demonstrating “facts of law” one-way or the other that CU’s, as a result of their prior-ruling, are or are not legally-equivalent in rights and benefits. The plaintiffs can’t just piggy-back onto the old case…they need to go to trial first.
Don’t blame Christie, the Democratic-controlled Statehouse and Gov. Corzine punted for CU’s instead of marriage. Now it must be demonstrated in-court that they failed in creating a strong-enough CU law in the first-place…one that failed to comply with the requirements of the NJ Supreme Court’s initial ruling.
Clint
Mike, while I agree with the rest of your post, whats with the intro about leaving out b and t? lol. that was just stupid.
Eric
Duh, the NJ Supreme Court is an appeals court, therefore you have to lose in a lower court before you can bring a case before it. Someone didn’t pay attention during Civics 101.