Posted on 01/07/2010 6:26:38 PM PST by TaraP
The New Jersey Senate voted Thursday against legalizing same-sex marriage, making the Garden State the latest to turn down legislation that proponents have called a civil rights issue.
The Freedom of Religion and Equality in Marriage Act failed by a vote of 20 to 14. The vote was scheduled to take place last month, but was postponed due to an apparent lack of support, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
New Jersey voters are narrowly divided on the issue, with gay marriage opponents finding more support by a 49-46 percentage point margin, according to a November poll from Quinnipiac University. State Democrats favor the measure 60-34, while Republicans oppose it 69-25, the poll found. The margin of error was 2.4 percentage points.
Five states currently allow same sex marriage, while thirty have rejected similar measures in referendum votes. The state senate in neighboring New York, where many New Jersey residents work, rejected a gay marriage bill 38 to 24 in December
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Our Wonderful GOD has BLESSED New Jersey today and Saved Her from More Depravity that Corzine was trying to stick Her with in his last several days of Depravity!!
May Our Wonderful GOD BLESS Governor Christie and New Jersey in this Blessed Period of Rebirth from the Dark Days of Demorat Corruption and Decay!! Let the Gays and Lebos move to Massachusetts where they belong...:-)
Good for NJ...
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Marriage has been for eons. Before modernity, before the middle ages, before ancient times. For the NJ Senate to presume to redefine “marriage” is pathetic and overreach just a bit, to say the least .... Get real ! Nice try egomanics. You will be long gone, when marriage will still be marriage as nature deigns.
Only if we can stick them all on Cape Cod and then tear down the Bourne and Sagamore bridges....
Not one state. Not one single state.
I know a gay couple and this makes no sense to them.They had a local spiritual director bless them.Nice people.We pray.
I really hope the gay advocate groups spent a lot of money on their spectacular FAIL.
Amen my friend!
Good job NJ.Good job.
Thank goodness!
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