New Jersey News
Oct. 25th, 2006 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiI'm spammity today but I know some of you get news via LJ so...
From CNN
-- Gay couples have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples under the New Jersey state constitution, the state Supreme Court rules.
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americablog has the ruling itself which indicate that the legislature has 180 days to either legislate marriage or, if they don't, civil unions will then be allowed, or so it seems.
From CNN
-- Gay couples have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples under the New Jersey state constitution, the state Supreme Court rules.
ETA:
americablog has the ruling itself which indicate that the legislature has 180 days to either legislate marriage or, if they don't, civil unions will then be allowed, or so it seems.
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Date: 2006-10-25 07:57 pm (UTC)"But the high court stopped short of fully approving gay marriage in the state, and gave lawmakers 180 days to rewrite marriage laws to either include same-sex couples or create new civil unions."
I just hope this doesn't end up hurting states with constitutional amendments on the line in two weeks, like VA (where I'm living now). That one in particular is scary enough to affect unmarried opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples alike -- and I can see the pro-amendment side using this to scare people into voting "yes" when it's already pretty close.