In a decision likely to stoke the contentious election-year debate over same-sex marriage, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that state lawmakers must provide the rights and benefits of marriage to gay and lesbian couples.
The high court on Wednesday gave legislators six months to either change state marriage laws to include same-sex couples, or come up with another mechanism, such as civil unions, that would provide the same protections and benefits.
This is a very positive step, and it opens the door to what I think is the ideal solution.
New Jersey should get rid of marriage. They should revise their law to give all couples a civil union, and if a couple wants to get married, they can go to their church and get married. The state should only endorse the civil aspect of the union, it is the church's job to seal the religious aspect of the joining.
I know it will not even be mentioned, but it is the solution that they, and every state, should be looking at.
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South Carolina has an amendment on the ballot to make any union between gays illegal. It doesn't specify marriage, it says any union.
Of course, being South Carolina, it will pass. It is so dismaying to be surrounded by such bigotry and ignorance.
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