NJ [Governor]: 1 judge can't force gay marriage recognition

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration says a single judge shouldn't be able to force the state to recognize gay marriage.

That's one of the arguments in legal papers filed Friday by the state in support of its effort to delay implementation of a judge's order last month that gay marriage be legal in the state as of Oct. 21.

The brief for an appeals court comes a day after Judge Mary Jacobson turned down New Jersey's request to delay the effective date of her order while the state Supreme Court decides whether she was right.

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Christie supports civil unions, which the state has had since 2007, but says marriage laws should be changed only by a popular vote.

"I don't think that should be decided by 121 politicians in Trenton or seven judges on the Supreme Court," he said at a debate this week. "It should be decided by the 8.8 million people of New Jersey."

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20131011/US--Gay.Marriage-NJ/

Yep. Christie is running - reaching out to the Christian Fundamentalists.

Edited October 11, 2013 by The Patriot

[mota bhai 2,675]

That has always been his position on SSM.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Yep. Christie is running - reaching out to the Christian Fundamentalists.

'I am for Gay marriage

I am against judicial activism

He is right

[mota bhai 2,675]

I am for activist judges imposing civil unions where same sex partners get the same legal rights as opposite sex partners when the political class is unwilling to do so.

I am not for activist judges taking the step beyond that, into 'marriage', because at that point the question of legal rights has already been settled. CU gives them that. They have it.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I am for activist judges imposing civil unions where same sex partners get the same legal rights as opposite sex partners when the political class is unwilling to do so.

I am not for activist judges taking the step beyond that, into 'marriage', because at that point the question of legal rights has already been settled. CU gives them that. They have it.

I cannot think of a single reason—and have not heard one since I undertook this venture—for continued discrimination against decent, hardworking members of our society on that basis.

Various federal and state laws have accorded certain rights and privileges to gay and lesbian couples, but these protections vary dramatically at the state level, and nearly universally deny true equality to gays and lesbians who wish to marry. The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. It is an expression of our desire to create a social partnership, to live and share life's joys and burdens with the person we love, and to form a lasting bond and a social identity. The Supreme Court has said that marriage is a part of the Constitution's protections of liberty, privacy, freedom of association, and spiritual identification. In short, the right to marry helps us to define ourselves and our place in a community. Without it, there can be no true equality under the law.

http://mag.newsweek.com/2010/01/08/the-conservative-case-for-gay-marriage.html

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I am for activist judges imposing civil unions where same sex partners get the same legal rights as opposite sex partners when the political class is unwilling to do so.

I am not for activist judges taking the step beyond that, into 'marriage', because at that point the question of legal rights has already been settled. CU gives them that. They have it.

The federal government has said they won't recognize CU. they'll only recognize marriages.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The federal government has said they won't recognize CU. they'll only recognize marriages.

There you go. If you want an immigration benefit through marriage, a civil union is not good enough.

Edited October 11, 2013 by The Patriot

[Danno 1,228]

I always get tickled at those people who cling to or repel our systems and principles of governance......... depending on the cause of the moment.

[Darnell 8,478]

Query - why are the gays migrating to New Jersey? The State income tax is abysmal and gay couples receive no tax benefit.

[BatmanUSA 105]

NJ is cheaper than, Fire Island, NY