Comments on: Poll: Support for gay marriage up in NJ

By: jess

jess — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:30:26 +0000

im praying this goes thru!!! me & my gf are planning to get married in the near future and it will amazing just to say “yes im married” instead of “im in a civil union….” i live in NJ and i would love nothing more to see change really happen!!! mood(excited)

By: nick

nick — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:38:33 +0000

omq im soo happy dat da world isz finally chanqinq der prospective of qay marriqe … now hopefully florida chanqesz der waysz 2

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:21:13 +0000

The next real battle ground. But think of what else is coming….

NH, NY, just possibly Iowa, who knows – don’t hold too much hope on the CA supreme court deal.

But it may be that a lot of good moderately conservative repugs realize that prop 8 was a step back into the backwardsness.

And they realize what it is like to be discriminated against legally at the ballot box.

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:12:22 +0000

Lots of hope here, but as I am learning in this battle, now is not the time to sit back and lick wounds, but to work harder. Prop 8 may well have been the shot heard round the county – waking up a lot of moderately conservative people to the fact that the war against religious based hate and terrorism has to be fought here at home as well as abroad.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:22:00 +0000

This poll is likely not true. Another poll came out and showed that it was much closer (48%-43%). Considering that polls in California right up to the election showed most opposed to Prop 8 (which subsequently passed with a 600,000 vote majority), it’s quite likely that at least a narrow majority of New Jerseyans are against gay marriage.

By: Alexander16IL

Alexander16IL — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:36:00 +0000

YAAAAAAAY! Go New Jersey!!!!!!! I was born in New Jersey and I’ve always wanted to go back, now I have an even better reason

By: Sebastian Rio

Sebastian Rio — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:17:47 +0000

I’m glad to hear that!!! but we’ll see about it.

By: KenTX

KenTX — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:12:18 +0000

Robert: “No amount of federal legislation can overturn states’ consitutional amendments, one of the downsides of the federalist system of government.”

This could be easily overcome with the removal of the Federal DOMA. If it were removed, the principal of supremacy would come into play. It would without a doubt require court battles, but we would be arguing from a much stronger position. This is how loving v. virginia came down, since there was no federal prohibition against interractial marriage it was decided that federal law trumped. Of course, there were attempts in congress at the time to amend the constitution to outlaw interracial marriage.

By: Robert, NYC

Robert, NYC — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:10:47 +0000

I think this will pass the legislature in NJ. However, NY where I live won’t get anything this year, maybe not next year either. Republicans are regrouping in the state and are planning a challenge to tack back governance of the state as well as unseating Kirsten Gillibrand, the recently appointed state democratic senator. We have a conservative, democratic triumvirate, Diaz, Espada and Kruger who are holding up the bill already waiting to come to the floor for a vote. All three are against marriage equality. If they’re not unseated in the primaries, forget about marriage equality in our state. We’ll never see marriage equality in every state, not while 29 or 30 states now have DOMA in place,more than half the country. No amount of federal legislation can overturn states’ consitutional amendments, one of the downsides of the federalist system of government.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:55:23 +0000

Rick N’ Nick,

The antigay bigot at the top of the Delaware legislature Thurman Adams is 79 and this may be his last time in office I was told.
DE I was told, may be in line for a civil unions bill in the future. I was also told that the DE legislature is impervious to the world outside of DE and “will not be told what to do”. That is their attitude to the situation evolving in NJ, NY, New England and more pro-equality states. In terms of equality, little Delaware is the land equality passed by. Same with PA. MD is better now under O’ Malley (O Maille in the Irish Gaelic)than it was under Ehrlich and even more so is NJ, are the 2 bright spots in the MidAtlantic regions.

MA 49, CT 48, NJ 47 (marriage very likely there this year, CA 46 if Prop 8 overturned ME 45 (if it survives this assault by the radical far right wing FRC invaders on its march to equality.)

They must be stopped in Maine and sent packing or else they will be enboldened to continue their assault on other of the states that are on the way to achieving equality.

And Steve, the word from inside Maine is that ME gov Baldacci is progay marriage as are both houses of the Maine legislature. There is a progay marriage bill that is or will be advanced in Maine legislature this year and that Steve is why all the Family Research Council crazies and their cohorts 800 of the them are mucking around with the state of Maine in its capital city Augusta. They are not up there for a vacation. They are afraid that the Maine of 2009 and no longer the Maine of 1999, is about to become legally a marriage equality state. Why else all of this hullabaloo right now in Maine instead of in some other state?