December 3rd, 2009
From NJ.com
“On Monday in the Judiciary Committee, we’re going to vote on marriage equality,” Lesniak (D-Union) said, while making the announcement to a crowd of gay marriage supporters on the Statehouse steps today.
“On Thursday (Dec. 10) the full Senate is going to vote on marriage equality,” said Lesniak, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “And God be willing, we’ll have 21 votes.”
There has been an expectation that marriage equality has adequate support in New Jersey to become law. However, recent rumblings suggest that some supporters may have been getting cold feet.
Let us hope that the fury unleashed on the Democratic Senators in New York who voted for discrimination will cause New Jersey elected officials to ask themselves whether they wish to be included on the “must be defeated” list.
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Elliot in NY
December 3rd, 2009
Come on, New Jersey, give us something to celebrate.
Bruno
December 3rd, 2009
The senate leader in NJ flat out said “no” when asked if they had enough votes. It’ll be a vote that will afford the LGBT community to see who their friends and enemies are, just like in NY, but it won’t result in passage.
tristram
December 3rd, 2009
It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. After Maine, the outcome in NY was inevitable, and, if marriage equality is brought to a vote in the NJ Senate, the result will be another ‘unexpectedly’ lopsided defeat.
At this point, each such defeat provides more momentum to NOM in its efforts to roll back equality in places like New Hampshire, Iowa and even Vermont.
And all the bluster in the gay blogosphere about “finding out who our friends are” did not work for us in New York and is no more likely to help in NJ. One or two of NY’s anti-equality eight might conceivably lose his/her seat in 2010 due to that vote, but we might well end up with fewer rather than more votes equality in the next senate.
cd
December 3rd, 2009
Not a single claim of yours is well warranted, tristam.
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