New Jersey Poised to Become 14th-Gayest State

Look forward to the fist-pumping at the wedding receptions

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The courts have declined to listen to Gov. Chris Christie and issue an emergency delay to a ruling that New Jersey must start recognizing same sex marriage. The Garden State will open up for the inevitable garden parties come Monday. Courtesy of the Associated Press:

A lower-court judge had ruled that same-sex weddings must be allowed starting Monday, and the state's highest court upheld that ruling Friday. It denied a request from Gov. Chris Christie's administration to delay the weddings.

Christie had wanted the weddings delayed while the state Supreme Court decides the broader question of whether same-sex marriage should be legal. The court will hear arguments on that in January.

So dudes and gals will be able to marry each other there, but they still can't legally pump their own gas. The mayor of Lambertville wants to officiate at the first legal wedding there. Senator-elect Cory Booker, though, may try to steal the guy's thunder, according to a BuzzFeed report. Jeez, Booker, you won already. Can't somebody else be a camera hog about it?

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[Hyperion]

New Jersey Poised to Become 14th-Gayest State.

Progress, comrades, progress. So, where are they at on abortions? Only the combination of those 2 criteria can indicate where they fall on the freedom index.

[SIV]

Angling for a cocktail party invite?

[Bo Cara Esq.]

If I recall rightly Christie vetoed an earlier bill for recognition on the grounds that it did not give protections from anti-discrimination laws to people of faith opposed to SSM, so I actually side with Christie in that.

[Eduard van Haalen]

I may have missed that part of the veto message when I looked it up, but I found this article in the AP:

"Divide over religious exemptions over gay marriage

"..."The religious community would have done much better to ask for protection for their religious liberty instead of trying to stop same-sex marriage and try to prevent it for everybody," said church-state expert Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia, who is recommending the more pragmatic course. "The more same-sex marriage seems inevitable, the less likely we are to see religious liberty protection in blue states."

"But Matthew Franck, of the Witherspoon Institute, a conservative think tank, argued the only real protection for religious freedom is maintaining the traditional definition of marriage. He said same-sex marriage advocates are unlikely to tolerate for long any "deviations from the 'new normal' they wish to create," so he predicted religious exemptions granted now will eventually be repealed....

"...Others reject such accommodations. Rose Saxe, an ACLU senior staff attorney, said the call for a middle ground, "while trying to sound reasonable, is really asking for a license to discriminate." And the Rev. Darlene Nipper of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said religious groups have another choice: They can accept same-sex marriage."

http://www.times-standard.com/.....y-marriage

[Eduard van Haalen]

Poor little country mouse Douglas Laycock thinks that he can broker a deal to recognize SSM in exchange for religious exemptions. The SSM people make clear that such a deal is not in the cards.

[Gojira]

Well sarcasmic must be really happy about this.

[OO=======D]

Whats that 4 doing there?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Well, Christie tried, and that's all needed to get his presidential primary spot.

[Paul.]

Romney II, This Time We Mean It?

[Jerry on the boat]

Well, I guess New Jersey could use some tidying up there.

[Paul.]

So dudes and gals will be able to marry each other there, but they still can't legally pump their own gas.

Dudes marrying gals? When will the insanity stop?

[Live Free or Diet]

I've always considered New Jersey (beginning 1949) and Oregon (1951) to be among the worst states because it's illegal to pump your own gas. Supposedly for safety reasons. At least Oregon's bikers have been free to take their lives into their own hands since 2001.

I wonder how they fill their lawn mowers?

[Paul.]

I'd imagine you walk up, wave your gas can and say "Fill'er up on low grade" and wait.

I drive through oregon a couple of times a year, I should ask next time. Although I have an awesome trick I usually pull where I arrange my trip so I buy no gas in Oregon. Fill up right at the border in Vancouver, go into Oregon, do my thing there, then fill up right as I go back over the border in Vancouver again.

Puts a smile on my face.

[Scarecrow Repair]

I've found my out of state plates guarantee fast service, The slightest move towards the pump brings 'em running. And if it's by credit card or exact cash, any move towards replacing the hose afterwards brings out arm waving if they aren't close enough to get to it before I do, but what are they gonna do, send the state police after me?

[Steve G]

The Article Title of the Year award goes to....

[GILMORE]

Oh, new jersey... you were always the gayest gaystate in gay-merica to *me*

...actually, no. There's nothing even remotely 'gay' about Perth Amboy. Or Newark...at night. Or (shudder)...Trenton. Even the turnpike is decidedly Not-Gay. New Jersey, you'll always be a sad, pathetic heterosexual depressing wasteland of suicidal suburbia and cities so badly mismanaged you make NY state look like a model of municipal governance. I salute your determined perseverance as a national model of mediocrity.

[JidaKida]

Sometimes man, you jsut have to roll with it.

http://www.Got-Privacy.com

[thorax232]

Gays want to be equal serfs asking for permission from the government too!