Amick: Marriage equality effort in political limbo
Posted on Aug 03, 2010 at 11:00 am
Early in 2008, then-Speaker of the Assembly Joe Roberts optimistically proclaimed that the freedom to marry in New Jersey "is simply a question of when, not if."
It's now clear that the "when" could be years away.
Families remind us what marriage is all about at New Jersey “Summer for Marriage” tour event
Posted on Jul 22, 2010 at 09:30 am
Freedom to Marry’s Online Organizer Cameron Tolle was on hand yesterday at Garden State Equality’s town hall in Trenton, New Jersey
New Jersey legislators admit that civil unions do not work
Posted on Jul 21, 2010 at 08:57 am
Coinciding with the New Jersey leg of the “Summer for Marriage” tour, video released showing top officials such as Senator Gerald Cardinale detailing the failures of civil unions legislation
Culhane: Should we hate civil unions, or love them?
Posted on Jul 12, 2010 at 03:30 pm
John Culhane on civil unions: "...[they] may well have been – and may, in some states, even continue to be – politically necessary compromises, way stations of a sort on the route to full marriage equality. But we should continue to point out that there’s plenty in a name."
Voice for Equality: Bringing the freedom to marry to N.Y., Dina-style
Posted on Jun 28, 2010 at 06:52 pm
Dina Manzo, who is best known for having appeared on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, is a mother, interior decorator, and the founder of the non-profit organization Project Ladybug. She and her family live in the affluent town of Franklin Lakes, NJ. She has been married to Tommy Manzo, co-owner of the event and catering facility The Brownstone, since 2006. Manzo is her second husband. Tommy's brother and business partner is the husband of Dina's older sister and cast mate, Caroline, making the two both sisters and sisters-in-law. Their wedding was featured on the VH1 television show My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding. A lot of reality stars say they support gay rights, but this former Housewife is putting her money where her mouth is by producing My Big Gay Italian Wedding off-Broadway in New York.
Landmark brief for marriage equality filed in New Jersey
Posted on May 10, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Today, six organizations file a landmark brief with the New Jersey Supreme Court on the profound harm that the state’s failed civil union law inflicts on children.
The brief is from Garden State Equality and five other organizations – the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of Social Workers, the Family Equality Council, PFLAG and COLAGE – in support of Lambda Legal’s motion to the New Jersey Supreme Court seeking marriage equality.
For same-sex couples, a patchwork of marriage laws
Posted on May 10, 2010 at 10:28 am
Many lesbian and gay couples struggle with the classification and recognition of their relationships due to varying marriage equality laws and freedom to marry bans throughout the United States.
ACLU-NJ joins NJ freedom to marry lawsuit
Posted on May 04, 2010 at 01:49 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union has joined a lawsuit arguing that same-sex couples don't have full rights under New Jersey's civil unions law.
The ACLU's New Jersey chapter said Monday that New Jersey's law "has failed to fulfill the actual promise of equality."
Ending the Failed Experiment: A High Court Marriage Challenge to Civil Unions in New Jersey
Posted on Mar 25, 2010 at 10:18 am
Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson and Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy Legal Director of Lambda Legal, discuss Lambda Legal's return to the New Jersey Supreme Court to win the freedom to marry.
Opinion: N.J.‘s Freedom to Marry Debate - Back to Court because Lawmakers failed
Posted on Mar 24, 2010 at 10:04 am
When the state Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that same-sex couples must have the same rights as heterosexual couples under New Jersey law, the justices ducked the obvious question: Can gay couples get married? They left that question to the state Legislature, which found another way to avoid it, passing a law that established civil unions. They’re just like marriages, the law essentially says, but with a different name.