A Partial Victory for Equality
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Doug Ireland reviews the New Jersey Supreme Court decision granting civil recognition to same-sex couples.
Znet
October 26th, 2006
The New Jersey Supreme Court's long-awaited decision on same-sex marriage today, October 25, was a Solomon-like decision that cut the baby in half, so to speak -- giving a partial victory to gay and lesbian couples and a potential victory to marriage equality opponents.
While the majority ruling held that the Garden State's constitution requires that "committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes," it gave the state legislature 180 days to decide whether to call a "statutory scheme" to achieve that equality "marriage," "civil unions," or something else.
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