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Posted on 11/24/2009 4:25:12 PM PST by NYer
Supporters of a proposed New Jersey law that would allow men to “marry” men and women to “marry” women were gung-ho going into November’s election.
Prospects looked good in the state legislature, and Gov. Jon Corzine had promised to sign the “marriage equality” bill whether he was reelected or not.
Everyone expected to see the Garden State’s civil union law supplanted by a same-sex “marriage” bill by year’s end, and even after Corzine lost to Republican challenger Chris Christie Nov. 3, people still assumed the bill would get the signature of the lame-duck governor.
But when legislators returned to Trenton Nov. 23, many were not so sure, The New York Times reported today. “Several of the 23 Democrats [in the Senate] have expressed reservations about it,” the paper said.
The off-year voting that saw a same-sex “marriage” law rejected in Maine and the election of two Catholics who support many traditional values elected in New Jersey and Virginia seems still to be having reverberations.
“The push to legalize same-sex marriage in [New Jersey] could become a casualty of the election results,” the Times said.
The paper reported that while supporters expect the bill to fare well in the General Assembly, Democrats in the Senate meeting to discuss the measure yesterday “did not schedule it for a vote because they appeared unable to muster the 21 votes needed to pass it.”
“Some Democratic legislative leaders—including the majority leader, Stephen M. Sweeney, who will become Senate president in January—have said that they view Governor Corzine’s loss as a gauge of the public’s unease with the troubled economy, and fear that voters might resent elected officials who appear distracted by social issues,” the paper reported. “He said he did not think this was the right time to enact the bill.
“Other Democrats worried that if they passed a same-sex-marriage bill while Mr. Corzine was on his way out of office, they might anger voters, energize Mr. Christie’s conservative base and alienate socially traditional Democrats.”
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If they did pass the law and get it signed could a new election get it revoked again, and if it did what would happen to the people who got “married” in the meantime?
Don't know but I think we can look at California as an example of what happens in such a situation.
Sometimes I think that the election of the Bamster last November was God's way of giving the electorate a collective cold slap in the face. Look how many people in the past year have put down their remotes and started raising hell about how our country is being carved up and looted from us. Not just financially but spiritually also.
It's almost like God saying to all of us "Hey Dummies!!!! Look I gave you the greatest country in world history and YOU"RE BLOWING IT!!! Wake up before it's too late!!!"
That’s the situation that happened in CA last year. As I recall, Rosie O’Donnell and her whatever flew out to CA to ‘get married,’ but when the law was repealed the marriage was overturned? I guess they’re married in NY now.
amen, bro
I wonder if the real reason is to give Dems a bone to throw in the next election. Why make it law on their way out when the issue could be used to help them get back in next time around? Gotta give the gays and their supporters a reason to keep voting (for Dems).
They don’t even mention the debacle with scuzzyfazza and her left wing pro-homo agenda support.
Existing marriages would continue. This is as it should be — even the Nuremburg Laws didn’t dissolve existing “Jew-Aryan” marriages.
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