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• SUPREME COURT RUL FAVOR OF ANTI-GAY WEBSE DIGNER
• NEW JERSEY HAS S FIRST GAY WEDDGS
• NEW JERSEY GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED BY JUDGE
• NJ ERNOR ENDS GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT AS UPL WED
• NEW JERSEY JUDGE RUL STATE MT ALLOW GAY COUPL TO MARRY
• MAYORS OFFICIATE AS NEW JERSEY LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
• VAN DREW, ONCE AN OPPONENT OF GAY MARRIAGE N.J. LEGISLATURE, VOT FOR ON HOE FLOOR
• AS GAYS WED NEW JERSEY, CHRISTIE ENDS COURT FIGHT
• GAYT PLAC IN NEW JERSEY FOR 2020
• GAY MARRIAGE
• QUEEN ELIZABETH RIPS CHRIS CHRISTIE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• N.J. GAY RIGHTS ADVOT: MARRIAGE NEAR
• N.J. JUDGE SAYS LAWSU TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAGE N GO ON

SUPREME COURT RUL FAVOR OF ANTI-GAY WEBSE DIGNER

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“This is a huge victory for New Jersey’s same-sex upl and their fai, ” add Hayley Gorenberg, puty legal director of gay rights group Lambda Legal and the anizatn’s lead attorney on the se. Same-sex upl mt be permted to marry New Jersey, a state judge led Friday, argug that the parallel label “civil unns, ” which the state already allows gay upl, is illegally preventg them om gettg feral benefs.

NEW JERSEY HAS S FIRST GAY WEDDGS

“We argued that limg lbians and gay men to civil unn is unfair and unnstutnal, and now the urt has agreed, ” said Hayley Gorenberg, puty legal director of Lambda Legal, a gay rights anizatn. Image ptn, Lydia Torr (left), 44, and Jenelle Torr, 42, wed at Newark cy hallGay upl New Jersey have been exchangg vows on the day the US state allowed same-sex marriage.

A judge led last month that New Jersey mt regnise gay after the first ceremoni were held, Republin Governor Chris Christie - a potential 2016 Whe Hoe ndidate and clared opponent of gay unns - dropped a legal appeal agast the marriag are now legal 14 stat and the District of Columbia.

NEW JERSEY GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED BY JUDGE

"Married gay upl New Jersey n now receive all the state and feral benefs of Christie dropped the appeal hours after the first weddgs began on Monday. "Although the Governor strongly disagre wh the urt substutg s judgment for the nstutnal procs of the elected branch or a vote of the people, the urt has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constutn and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law, " his spokman, Michael Drewniak, said a Republin had prevly said marriage was between a man and a woman, and argued that a popular vote should terme the on Monday, four same-sex upl livg the state of Tennsee but wed other stat filed a lawsu challengg Tennsee's law prohibg regnn of their su argu that Tennsee's laws, cludg a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, vlate the US nstutn's guarante of equal protectn and due Supreme Court stck down a key portn of a law preventg feral regnn of same-sex marriag stat that allow earlier this ptn, After exchangg vows Lambertville, New Jersey, Beth Asaro, left, and Joanne Schailey celebrate wh their dghter Kate, 13Image ptn, Jam Credle (right) and Pierre DuFrne kiss after tyg the knot at Newark cy hallImage ptn, US Senator-elect Cory Booker (right) nducted some of the ceremoni, cludg this one for Joseph Pansidi (centre) and Orville Bell, both 65More on this storyRelated Inter LksThe BBC is not rponsible for the ntent of external s. Image ptn, Gay rights activists om New Jersey sought a lg on their state's ban on same-sex marriage the wake of a key Supreme Court judgement JulyA New Jersey urt has lifted a ban on same-sex marriage but state Governor Chris Christie has said he tends to appeal agast the cisn.

Thirteen US stat, cludg much of the North East, currently allow same-sex ptn, Superr Court Judge Mary Jabson lifted a ban on same-sex marriage the state of New Jersey on FridayThe lg follows a June US Supreme Court cisn strikg down key parts of a law that prohibed the feral ernment om grantg benefs to same-sex same month, a group of same-sex upl and gay rights groups sued the state of New Jersey.

They said the separate classifitn of "civil unns" did not entle them to the same benefs as married Jabson led their favour, fdg the separate labels exclud gay upl om certa benefs, such a filg a jot feral tax return.

NJ ERNOR ENDS GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT AS UPL WED

Chris Christie dropped his fight agast gay marriage New Jersey on Monday, amg the cisn a pragmatic way: No pot fightg a losg hours after gay upl began exchangg vows wh the blsg of New Jersey’s Supreme Court, Christie announced he was whdrawg his appeal to the high Jersey is the 14th state to legalize gay marriage.

As the Republin ernor seeks re-electn two weeks om now and ponrs a n for print 2016, Christie’s cisn holds both risks and benefs for lighted gay rights activists and uld enhance Christie’s appeal to pennts and morat of both parti. The urt agreed to take up the se but unanimoly refed on Friday to lay the start of gay weddgs the meantime, sayg the state had ltle chance of prevailg s appeal.

He nomated an openly gay judge to the Supreme Court and signed legislatn last summer barrg therapists om tryg to turn gay youngsters a bate last week, Christie said if one of his children me out as gay, he would “grab them and hug them and tell them that I love them. Christie was not many tablishment Republins ntend that social issu ultimately will take a back seat to enomic on as gay marriage be more wily accepted Ameri. Rters reports: "Judge Mary Jabson Mercer County Superr Court Trenton issued the orr as part of long-nng ligatn brought by a group of gay upl agast the state.

NEW JERSEY JUDGE RUL STATE MT ALLOW GAY COUPL TO MARRY

But the judge explas that civil unns are not seen as equal to marriage by the Feds, so they do not give upl accs to some feral benefs like pensns and fay leave that married straight upl and gay upl receive. "Jabson's lg reprents a victory for gay-rights advot, although the cisn is expected to be appealed: first to an termediate urt, and then to the state Supreme Court. By Victoria Cavaliere NEWARK, New Jersey (Rters) - Weddg bells rang for the first time for same-sex upl New Jersey jt after midnight on Monday when the state beme the 14th the natn to legalize gay marriage.

The marriag took place after New Jersey's Supreme Court led on Friday agast a requt by Republin Governor Chris Christie to eeze a lower urt lg favor of gay marriage until the top urt uld hear the state's appeal January and issue a fal cisn. In Newark, ne upl, both gay and straight, took their vows the Cy Hall rotunda a ceremony officiated by Booker, who said his tenure was endg on a high note.

The ceremoni Newark went off mostly whout a hch, though one man was ejected after yellg out that gay marriag were "unlawful the sight of God. When a bill legalizg gay marriage me to the floor of the New Jersey State Senate 2012, Jeff Van Drew – then a Democratic state senator – cid to break wh the Democratic uc and vote no.

MAYORS OFFICIATE AS NEW JERSEY LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE

Prsed for his personal belief on gay marriage, which enjoys huge popular support natnwi, Van Drew said that the Supreme Court is his “gui” on the issue while tacly offerg his support for marriage equaly.

VAN DREW, ONCE AN OPPONENT OF GAY MARRIAGE N.J. LEGISLATURE, VOT FOR ON HOE FLOOR

Christian Fro, the executive director of the proment New Jersey LGBTQ group Garn State Equaly, said that he was happy Van Drew had broken ranks wh the Republin Party, which remas formally opposed to gay marriage. In 2006, the New Jersey Legislature took the first step towards givg gay upl legal regnn by tablishg civil unns, grantg them many of the benefs of marriage whout gog so far as to ll “marriage.

Van Drew remaed agast gay marriage 2012 when legislative Democrats ma a send attempt, but his opposn wasn’t enough to stop the bill om passg 24-16 the Senate and 42-33 the Assembly; Christie vetoed almost immediately afterwards. Van Drew was far om the only Hoe Republin to support the Hoe’s gay marriage legislatn; 47 Republins voted favor, reprentg nearly a quarter of the Republin uc. But Van Drew said that such urgency is misplaced, and argued that nservativ Congrs and on the Supreme Court have ltle sire to go after gay marriage.

“Nobody the Republin Party is gog after gay marriage or terracial marriage or any of this stuff… But sce was a vote, I wanted to say for the rerd that I regnize what the Supreme Court did.

AS GAYS WED NEW JERSEY, CHRISTIE ENDS COURT FIGHT

Chris Christie abandoned his long fight agast same-sex marriage, ncludg that signals om the urt and the march of history were agast cisn not to appeal a judge’s lg that allowed the weddgs removed the last hurdle to legalized same-sex marriage New Jersey, makg the 14th state, along wh the District of Columbia, to allow gay upl to Christie’s advisers said beme clear late on Friday that the fight had to end after the State Supreme Court announced would not grant the ernor’s requt to block same-sex marriag while he only did the urt cisn say that his appeal had no “reasonable probabily of succs, ” was also unanimo — signed by the jtic Mr. But he also signed a bill outlawg so-lled gay nversn therapy, which angered Makela for The New York TimEven if he lost on the marriage issue, his ais said, Mr.

GAYT PLAC IN NEW JERSEY FOR 2020

A aln of state and natnal gay rights groups was phg to overri his veto of same-sex marriage legislatn, but they were far short of the vot they September, Judge Mary C.

GAY MARRIAGE

Jabson of State Superr Court led that the state had to allow gay marriag to ply wh the Uned Stat Supreme Court cisn June that guaranteed same-sex married upl the same feral benefs as heterosexual married upl. Contug to oppose same-sex marriage agast the imag of the jubilant weddgs might have hurt that Democratic opponent, State Senator Barbara Buono, sought to remd voters that he had tried “to block the rights of gays and lbians at every turn.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH RIPS CHRIS CHRISTIE ON GAY MARRIAGE

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N.J. GAY RIGHTS ADVOT: MARRIAGE NEAR

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N.J. JUDGE SAYS LAWSU TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAGE N GO ON

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.