Posted on 06/29/2011 12:06:15 PM PDT by markomalley
Seven gay and lesbian New Jersey couples, along with many of their children, are going to court to try to force the state to recognize gay marriage.
The families say in their legal complaint that the state's civil union law designed to give gay couples the same legal protections as married couples has not fulfilled that promise.
One man says he was denied being able to make urgent medical decisions for his partner. Another saw his partner and children's health insurance canceled by a skeptical auditor. One woman had to jump through legal hoops to adopt the baby of her civil union.
Along with the gay advocacy groups Garden State Equality and Lambda Legal, the couples planned to announce details of the lawsuit on Wednesday. The advocacy groups provided a copy to The Associated Press on the condition that no details be published before Wednesday morning.
The lawsuit, to be filed in state court, comes less than a week after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law allowing gay marriage in that neighboring state. But it's the latest step in a nine-year legal battle in New Jersey.
States afford gay couples a hodgepodge of rights. New Jersey is one of seven states that offer the same legal protections of marriage, but call it either civil unions or domestic partnerships. Once New York's new law takes effect next month, six states and Washington D.C. will make full marriage available to gays. Another state recognizes gay marriages entered into elsewhere and three offer some legal protections for gay couples. But 41 have laws or constitutional amendments barring gay marriage.
New Jersey's civil union law is cast as the villain in the suit.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
The New Jersey civil union law came about because of a lawsuit.
Several years ago, the gay activists sued New Jersey over their marriage law, as they have sued various other states.
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that it was a form of discrimination to deny legal status to same-sex couples, HOWEVER, that court said it was up to the legislature to deal with how that legal status was defined. The court declined to impose same-sex marriage at that time.
As a result the New Jersey legislature created civil unions in that state.
So now, against this backdrop they are in court again, suing for full marriage. We’ll see if the N.J. courts are persuaded that the civil union law isn’t working.
Gay couple CANNOT have “their” own children.
They can be a custodian of others.
Just a short trip across the NJ state line into NY. So its not really about the happiness of being gay-married—its a political pushing of their perverted agenda all across the nation.
However this turns out, you can take this to the bank:
NJ gets gay marriage within days of electing its next Democrat governor.
That is also why they need media/public school indoctrination
If you want to get married that bad, sell your house and move to NY.
What, no one is buying homes right now? Whose fault is that?
These people are like a malignant cancer that just spreads and spreads.
“If you want to get married that bad, sell your house and move to NY. What, no one is buying homes right now? Whose fault is that?”
Barney Frank and Herb Moses
I see a silver lining in this law suite. If the gays win, then NJ will also have to honor Concealed Carry Permits from other states, such as ones from Florida and Utah. Florida and Utah will grant a permit to NJ residents. The lefties could hand us a big win for NJ gun owners.
It’s worth nothing that many of the complaints these people
have are shared by many Truly Married (tm) couples. Without
a proper “Health Care Proxy” a wife (husband) can be shut
out of making decisions on medical care for her husband
(his wife). A husband has to jump through legal hoops that
worsen all the time to adopt his wife’s child by another
man; a Truly Married (tm) couple now has to pray night and
day that a child of one of their siblings, for whom they
are designated caretaker in the event of the sibling’s (and
spouse’s death goes to the them and not some interloper
ad hoc household better connected with TPTB. and so on.
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