Milton to Gay Marriage NJ - by Jay Lasser

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE MAY SOON BE ACTUAL LAW N.J.
• NOTABLE MILTON ON THE ROAD TO GAY MARRIAGE EQUALY NEW JERSEY
• SUPREME COURT RUL FAVOR OF ANTI-GAY WEBSE DIGNER
• NJ ERNOR ENDS GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT AS UPL WED
• JUDGE ORRS NEW JERSEY TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
• SIX MONTHS OF GAY MARRIAGE NJ YIELDS NEARLY 3,000 WEDDGS

GAY MARRIAGE MAY SOON BE ACTUAL LAW N.J.

At Weberger Divorce & Fay Law Group, LLC, our attorneys are dited to supportg the needs of the LGBTQIA+ (Lbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, and Transgenr) muny. For the first time sce 2012, the New Jersey Legislature held a vote on gay marriage. But appears the bill, which wr the 2013 Superr Court cisn legalizg gay marriage to law, is head for a quick passage the lame reason: Wh the right-leang U.

Wa, advot believe s 2015 cisn legalizg gay marriage uld be next.

(There’s some reason for that)’s remarkable is that back when there was a real legislative effort to enact gay marriage New Jersey a or so ago, there was a lot of opposn, by most Republins and some Democrats. This time, the only dissentg voice was “ex-gay” Rev. ” — Assemblymember Raj Mherji to “ex gay” Rev.

NOTABLE MILTON ON THE ROAD TO GAY MARRIAGE EQUALY NEW JERSEY

Greory Qulan, who said “No one is born gay. The science is zero” and alleged that the Legislature was “endorsg a relign” wh the gay marriage bill. ”“The fact is that the statut of our state have never ught up to the urt cisns or to the law effect today, which no longer treats same-sex upl as send-class cizens, ” said Assemblyman Raj Mherji, member of the public spoke agast the bill: Gregory Qulan, founr and print of the Center for Garn State Fai, who said he’s an ex-gay and that difyg such marriag is like havg the ernment endorse a fah-based relign.

SUPREME COURT RUL FAVOR OF ANTI-GAY WEBSE DIGNER

“No one is born is born gay. "And so for that reason, there is no jtifitn to dify homosexual marriage or any of the sundry inti that have been put out the last several years.

Wh the US Congrs poised to legalize gay marriage, let’s reflect on some ton om the past 20 years (or so) as the battle for equal marriage New Jersey reached s crcendo. Jim McGreevey, who later me out as gay, was NJ Governor at the time.

NJ ERNOR ENDS GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT AS UPL WED

In 2006 after hearg the Lewis v Harris se, the NJ Supreme Court uld’ve legalized gay marriage outright. Instead the urt orred the legislature to eher amend NJ’s marriage laws (to clu gays) or to create civil unn statut stead.

The legislature went wh civil unns and for nearly a , gay upl NJ had an ferr, separate and unequal, versn of marriage. Then-Governor Jon Corze signed civil unn legislatn December 2006 and by Febary 2007, gay upl were registerg their civil unns around the state, hard-hard albe plete victory the larger battle for equal marriage.

JUDGE ORRS NEW JERSEY TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

It was a heady time for gay activism and felt meangful to be to be part of the battle.

SIX MONTHS OF GAY MARRIAGE NJ YIELDS NEARLY 3,000 WEDDGS

If Coy’s attempt to legalize gay marriage also highlighted that many of the same senators who throned him were barriers to gay marriage, might have jt been a cince. Bill Baroni, who’s gay, was the only GOP senator to vote y that day. A lot changed sce the last senate vote back 2010, namely a new anti-gay ernor (Christie) and a new Senate Print Steve Sweeney who later lled his abstentn on marriage equaly one of the biggt mistak of his reer.

Wdsor was the landmark US Supreme Court se that set the table for gay marriage equaly plac like New Jersey where still wasn’t legal.