Posted on 10/25/2006 12:10:14 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
Edited on 10/25/2006 12:51:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
To comply with the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, the State must provide to committed same-sex couples, on equal terms, the full rights and benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples. The State can fulfill that constitutional requirement in one of two ways. It can either amend the marriage statutes to include same-sex couples or enact a parallel statutory structure by another name, in which same-sex couples would not only enjoy the rights and benefits, but also bear the burdens and obligations of civil marriage. If the State proceeds with a parallel scheme, it cannot make entry into a same-sex civil union any more difficult than it is for heterosexual couples to enter the state of marriage. It may, however, regulate that scheme similarly to marriage and, for instance, restrict civil unions based on age and consanguinity and prohibit polygamous relationships.
The constitutional relief that we give to plaintiffs cannot be effectuated immediately or by this Court alone. The implementation of this constitutional mandate will require the cooperation of the Legislature. To bring the State into compliance with Article I, Paragraph 1 so that plaintiffs can exercise their full constitutional rights, the Legislature must either amend the marriage statutes or enact an appropriate statutory structure within 180 days of the date of this decision.
For the reasons explained, we affirm in part and modify in part the judgment of the Appellate Division.
JUSTICES LaVECCHIA, WALLACE, and RIVERA-SOTO join in JUSTICE ALBIN’s opinion. CHIEF JUSTICE PORITZ filed a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part in which JUSTICES LONG and ZAZZALI join.
LOL -so you oppose society granting (via government) marital privilege and accommodation. That has nothing to do with homosexuals pretending to be "married" and activists courts imposing such leftist ideological rulings as the one just handed down in NJ...
They have the same rights. They have the right to enter into man/woman marriage.
By what legal precedent does is "same-sex marriage" allowed, but polygamy isn't? I should be able to "marry" an inanimate object and receive tax benefits.
Can an atheist or a Buddhist officiate your sacrament?
"For a man united with a man, or a woman united with a woman, the new name they can use is living in a relationship called "sin"."
Are you in favor of giving the government the right to assign the word "sin" to actions they deem to be sinful?
"The added benefit is that the terminology will be consistent with reality, and with millenia of cultural practice and religious truth and doctrine."
You mean with the reality of those who are like-minded to you.
if the limp wrist fits wear it...
& btw thanks for your email, but I don't donate to dem candidates...
Thank you for your fine analysis and help answering my question.
Civil unions ARE marriage.
Civil unions are just marriage without the M.
Civil Marriage by a secular justice of the peace or notary is generally a "civil union".
It is just an interim step before the ABA pushes to eliminiate the word marriage completly.
" It may, however, regulate that scheme similarly to marriage and, for instance, restrict civil unions based on age and consanguinity and prohibit polygamous relationships."
Until, of course, challenged in the state courts and appealled to the logically impaired and socialist activist New Jersey Supreme Court.
In a rational world, the legislature would simply ignore the idiots on the New Jersey State Supreme Court. But New Jersey doesn't act in a rational world and their legislators have only one goal in mind - don't rock the boat, do everything to stay in power.
This might help Republicans nationwide. Most Republican in Jersey lack the testacles to actually DO anything about the State Supreme Court's unending "discovery" of new "rights" and undermining of tradtional ones.
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