[NJ] AG bans marriage licenses for gays

(red)Star Ledger ^ | 3/10/2004 | Rudy Larini

[Incorrigible]

The order came on the third day Asbury Park officials were granting marriage license applications to gay couples. The city on Monday conducted New Jersey's first same-sex marriage.

Attorney General Peter Harvey said he hoped the letters he sent to Asbury Park officials would halt gay marriages in the city, sparing him the need to seek a court injunction.

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"The Legislature created the marriage statutes. So if the Legislature wants to permit same-sex marriages, it can do so by changing the laws that it enacted," he said.

Oh please!  Since when have any of the Democrats in NJ, especially the McGreevey administration, had respect for the constitutional process?  Something tells me that the (red)Star Ledger's rosy numbers on gay marriage polls in NJ aren't as rosy as the NJ Democrats polling numbers.

McGreevey comes up for election again on Nov '05.  He mustn't want this to be an issue he needs to take sides on.

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Gay couple married in Asbury Park, a NJ first

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[Incorrigible]

Actually, I meant to say that the Star Ledger's polling numbers on gay marriage must be rosier than the Democrat's internal polling numbers.

[billbears]

But children are what it is about for Maria Luiken and Debra Stalk of Marshall's Creek, Pa., who came to Asbury Park with their son and three daughters to apply for a license to marry.

"We have children. We have a family and we just want the same rights as everyone else," Luiken said.

No, what you 'ladies' have is not a family. It's a travesty. I wonder if any of the children are allowed to see their father(s).

[Seth1]

Maria Luiken and Debra Stalk of Marshall's Creek, Pa.

[Qwinn]

"This is a gay community." The 2000 census estimated that about 3 percent of Asbury Park's population of 17,000 is gay.

Meaning, I suppose, that the other 97% is just disenfranchised heterosexuals. If 3% makes the -entire- community "gay" from their perspective, that really says something.

Qwinn

[ChevyZ28]

This has been the entire contention of gay community all along. If one person living in a community is gay, then the whole community is gay. I wonder how the other 97 percent really feel about this issue.

[freeperfromnj]

Did you see the front page of today's Asbury Park Press? There's a picture of a lone protester outside City Hall holding up a sign that says "The Freak Show" and a picture of Bart Simpson. He said "if gays can marry, I can marry Bart Simpson".

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PHOTO: JOSEPH J. DELCONZO, SPECIAL TO THE PRESS

Tom Perry protests gay couples' applications outside city hall. If they can marry, "I want to marry Bart Simpson," Perry said.

[petercooper]

finally an AG with balls

[Coleus]

[Duke809]

I called the Gov's office yesterday to lodge a complaint about the Asbury Park officials disobeying the law.

I spoke to a aide to the Gov, who was probably hired off the street or maybe as a political payback, because she sure was a pinhead.

I tried to explain that there are many laws in NJ that I despise and I guess it's OK for me to just ignore the ones I don't like. She told me I shouldn't do it because I could get arrested. Then I asked her why the State Police haven't arrested anyone from the Asbury Park's administration. She gave me the old "hamana-hamana-hamana"

I told her I wanted to file a formal complaint, not against gay marriage, but against elected officials just ignoring laws they don't like. She didn't get it. I must have told her 10 times, but still, this woman was as sharp as a bowling ball.

They must have gotten a boatload of calls yesterday, because what the article above DOESN'T SAY (as reported by all three local news programs) that if they continue to issue licenses, criminal charges will be filed AND THEY WILL BE ARRESTED.

Key word here is ARRESTED. I guess they don't have the courage of their convictions when push comes to shove. Also on the 11 o'clock news, they were saying the NJ does not have a law banning gay marriage. But a AG offical they interviewed said because they don't have a law specifically banning gay marriage, DOES NOT MAKE IT LEGAL.