Posted on 12/21/2006 10:29:51 AM PST by Froufrou
New Jersey's governor signed legislation Thursday giving gay couples all the rights and responsibilities of marriage allowed under state law _ but not the title.
When the law goes into effect Feb. 19, New Jersey will become the third state offering civil unions to gay couples and the fifth allowing gay couples some version of marriage.
Connecticut and Vermont also offer civil unions for gay couples, while Massachusetts allows gay couples to marry, and California has domestic partnerships that bring full marriage rights under state law.
"We must recognize that many gay and lesbian couples in New Jersey are in committed relationships and deserve the same benefits and rights as every other family in this state," Gov. Jon S. Corzine said in signing the legislation.
The Legislature passed the civil unions bill on Dec. 14 in response to a state Supreme Court order that gay couples be granted the same rights as married couples. The court in October gave lawmakers six months to act but left it to them to decide whether to call the unions "marriage" or something else.
Gay couples welcomed the new law, but argue not calling it "marriage" creates a different, inferior institution. Even some same-sex couples who attended the bill signing remained lukewarm about the law.
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Every NJ queer deadbeat can now sponge off employers' benefits.
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No. We must not.
That part doesn't bother me so much as the determination to be considered normal...the very insistence decries the reality that it can't be.
It won't be long before there are NJ-based lawyers who specialize in divorce cases involving homosexual clientele. The primary utility for marriage seems to be for people who genuinely wish to have their own biological children, from my estimation.
~ Blue Jays ~
If you're normal and you know it clap your hands!....
If you're normal and you know it clap your hands!....
If you're normal and you know it then you life will surely show it!....
If you're normal and you know it clap your hands!........
You're scaring me...
If you're paranormal and you know it clap my hands!....
LOL!!........;^)
What about heterosexual couples that aren't married? I'd say that this is a clear case of discrimination against them - and while the NJ Supreme Court (A.K.A. the 9th Circus, Eastern Division) won't find that to be the case, maybe the US Supreme Court will. It'll be interesting to find out.
As for me, as an estate planning lawyer (formerly from NJ, but now thankfully living in Texas) I am for giving any 2 people who have shared a life together the inheritance, hospital visitation and medical decision-making rights that this bill gives them. Of course, a simple visit to a lawyer could accomplish the same thing without having the State ratify a relationship that undermines the family, but we all know what liberal Dems are about these days.
You've never heard that song?.........
What about the celibate crowd? What do they do for benefits? Why should the government discriminate against them?
"Do you....bone smuggler take this turd burgler to be your lawful bedded perv?"
I know we can't secede from the Union, but the Constitution doesen't say anything about kicking a state out!.............
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
This Democrat radical also signed a bill into law that gives transgenders and transexuals the same rights as individuals of the sex they are mocking.
See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756539/posts
Sort of makes me wonder what Corzine was doing when he was allegedly working on that family farm back in Illinois.
Abraham Lincoln NOT.
We tried. Didn't work........
~snorrfle!~ Please, may it never come to that...
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