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New Jersey defeats gay marriage bill
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by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | January 7, 2010 at 03:40 pm
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The gay marriage bill which Jon Corzine had promised to sign into legislation and which the Garden State Equality advocacy group had wanted urgently to pass before Chris Christie's inauguration has died, 7 votes shy of the 21 Senatorial votes it needed to pass.
This defeat follows major defeats in Maine, which repealed gay marriage, and in New York, where it was defeated by 38 state Senators.
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey's state Senate has defeated a bill to legalize gay marriage, leaving it unlikely the state will have a gay marriage law in the very near future.
The bill needed 21 votes to pass; only 14 senators approved the measure Thursday.
Gay-rights advocates had pushed hard to get the bill passed before Jan. 19, when RepublicanChris Christie becomes governor. Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine promised to sign the bill if approved by the Legislature but Christie has said he would veto it.
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at 16:10 on January 7th, 2010
This is sad.
at 17:02 on January 7th, 2010
I think this was inevitable and ultimately it will be decided in the courts, as it was in Canada.
at 17:43 on January 7th, 2010
Very unfortunate. Thanks for this, smk!
at 17:57 on January 7th, 2010
Good - another one bites the dust!
at 18:04 on January 7th, 2010
What a shame. Just when equality is in sight, it is knocked down. Though I'm not gay, This is very disappointing to me.
at 19:17 on January 16th, 2010
i think this is a good thing you know i used to be a democrat but i am now an independent beacause i feel like the democrat is very far left its almost like mind control i mean it seems like if your a democrat i find myself having to agree with everything democrats belive its almost like im feeling like its a cult or something where i feel like to be a democrat you have to agree and belive in all there agendas which bothers me cause that is why i switched to independent cause i felrt like it got to much i used to be a big democrat until i felt like i was being forced into something that i really dont belive in.now of days for the most of the young people they look at indepent or republican as a bad thing, im tired of partys dissing partys dem and rep, and as young people we should look at the big picture and i feel like if your a man you should feel good about being a man, and if your a woman you should feel good about being a woman and dress like a woman act like a woman and dont try to be something that your not.being young at times we have an identity sometimes but you just have to accept who you are and what you where born as.im so tired of being saying well we elected a black president i mean so what hes black he is a man accepts hes a man has a great wife and has it all together so what hes black do you see him trying to change his aperance try to be someone hes not no. hes straight.he has a great wife. and has it all together what i mean is he didnt choose to be black its just that god or whatever you belive made him that race.so im tired of everyone using that excuse,instead of looking at his race look at his family and you will see that that is a great american straight family. so just cause your young doesnt mean that you have to be dumb and get confused with some people that have no identity and dont know who they really are.just cause of there low self esteem.
at 19:56 on January 16th, 2010
We are entering a time in our history where we should be coming together as a People to explore the mysteries of creation in the vastness of space.. and we are at war around the world, divided over personal freedoms and still fighting for equal rights here on earth. At the wake of the recent deaths in Haiti, we should be treasuring the time we have together in this life. We need a major wake up call as a People to reassess what is really right and wrong, and when it comes to the issues of love, there can't be evil in it, the wrong is in trying to extinguish it.