yay new jersey!

alafairnadia

time to move if you wanna get married.

apollonia666

Well, MAYBE, in six months! The majority ruled that all the legal protections of marriage must be given to same-sex couples. The legislature is given 180 days either to amend the marriage statutes or to create some other system to give same-sex couples the same legal rights under state law that heterosexuals have (as Vermont, Connecticut and California do). Three of the seven judges would have ruled that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry outright. There were no dissents.

Here's the decision, for anyone who wants to read it:
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/supreme/a-68-05.pdf

Either way they go, though, it's good!

stacey

This is fanfuckingtastic!!! I hope other states will follow suit.

jangille

That's great! Why deny the "pleasure" of marriage to just us straight people

Seriously - good news. I hope the rest of the country follows suit. The government has no business in our love lives ('cept when it comes to unwilling/underage/otherwise unable to consent partners).

armchair_warrior

if people want to commit financial suicide :P let em hehe. marriage is such a antiqued system.


plus everyone should have the damn right to marry whom ever they want to. except for those who want to marry their goats.

doctorj

First the military, now marriage. Why do gays want in on society's worst institutions?

apollonia666

doctorj wrote: First the military, now marriage. Why do gays want in on society's worst institutions?

Well... try meeting people who have been together for years but then can't get put on their partners' medical insurance, or can't visit each other when they're in the hospital, or get pushed out of medical decisions by their partners' homophobic parents, or lose everything when one partner dies. There's a LOT about marriage that people who aren't shut out of it take for granted.

doctorj

apollonia666 wrote: [quote=doctorj]First the military, now marriage. Why do gays want in on society's worst institutions?

Well... try meeting people who have been together for years but then can't get put on their partners' medical insurance, or can't visit each other when they're in the hospital, or get pushed out of medical decisions by their partners' homophobic parents, or lose everything when one partner dies. There's a LOT about marriage that people who aren't shut out of it take for granted.

(of course, and doubly so in the US. By rights I ought to have added a :P or given attrib. for the quip to The Onion)

grandzu

Flexichick wrote: The government has no business in our love lives ('cept when it comes to unwilling/underage/otherwise unable to consent partners).

'cept also when the intrusion is in your agenda's favor, then by all means, get the govt involved.:roll: