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TagsAnti- and pro-gay activists cross paths at Satehouse
The National Organization for Marriage's "Summer for Marriage, One Man-One Woman tour made a stop at the Statehouse Tuesday and gay activists were there to meet them.
The 23-city, 19-state tour made Trenton a stop in anticipation the state Supreme Court will hear a case involving six same-sex couples currently in civil unions who want the right to marry.
The gay couples maintain that civil unions have not provided them equal rights the high court held they should have in a 2006 decision that led the Legislature to create civil unions.
The anti-gay marriage tour is covering many of the key battleground states in what proponents say is ongoing to preserve marriage as one man and one woman.
Among the anti-gay marriage proponents were Trenton Catholic Diocese Bishop John M. Smith, Brian Brown, National Organization for Marriage president; Len Deo, New Jersey Family Policy Council president, and Jennifer Roback Morse, The Ruth Institute president.
"We have a different message from our opponents today,'' Steven Goldstein, Garden State Equality chairman told The Star-Ledger. "Outside is a message of hate and prejudice.''
Anti-gay marriage proponents did not like being describe as prejudiced.
Brown told The Star-Ledger the tour stopped in Trenton because he fears "judicial activism'' by the Supreme Court.
"What if Martin Luther King Jr. would have listened to those who tried to silence and tell him that his faith has no place in the public square -- that he should be silent?, Brown told The Star-Ledger. "You are a part of a new civil rights group -- a civil rights group dedicated to protecting the most fundamental and basic institution known to mankind: marriage.''
Several same-sex couples spoke about how hard it was for children whose parents are not allowed to marry.
— TOM HESTER SR., NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
What does a "coloreds only" water fountain provide that a "whites only" doesn't? It's the same water, isn't it?
Civil Unions are Separate But Equal, which is unconstitutional.
Yeah, Correta would be appalled to have her husband's name attached to that. What do they mean by this part of the article though, "The gay couples maintain that civil unions have not provided them equal rights the high court held they should have in a 2006 decision that led the Legislature to create civil unions."? What rights don't a civil union provide in NJ? Just wonderin.
Onward, Joe Mustich, Justice of the Peace,
Washington, Connecticut, USA.
And kudos to CT where we legalized civil unions in 2005, and marriage equality in 2008, so now I can perform non-religious civil marriage ceremonies for couples, many of whom have been together for 20, 30 and 45 years.
And to the anti-marriage folks, please find another issue......