“Although we cannot find that a fundamental right to same-sex marriage exists in this state, the unequal dispensation of rights and benefits to committed same-sex partners can no longer be tolerated under our state Constitution,” Justice Barry T. Albin wrote for the four-member majority.
I clap my hands for the New Jersey Supreme Court for recognizing what is, to me, the obvious.
My only concern is that the ruling, two weeks before elections, will provoke some reactionary types to turn out in greater numbers at the polls. That at least one GOP state assemblyman in NJ is demanding the seven justices be impeached only adds to that concern.
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