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February 19, 2007

...getting a civil union. The ancestral homeland of New Jersey just became the third state in the nation to offer civil unions for gay couples. As I reported last fall, the New Jersey Supreme Court mandated that the state legislature had to create a legal arrangement with equivalent rights to marriage for the state's gay couples, though it deferred to the legislature on whether to call these arrangements marriages or civil unions. The state chose the latter.

Currently, only Massachusetts allows marriage for gay couples. New Jersey joins Vermont and Connecticut in offering civil unions

Related ITA entries:

Speaking of Marriage... by D. Darlington
Are Gay Marriage Bans "Rational"? by J. Claybourn
Homosexual Marriages and Adoptions by J. Claybourn
Can you Feel the Love Tonight? by J. Claybourn
On Nurturing and Marriage by J. Claybourn
On Nurturing, Nature, and Advocacy by P. Musgrave

Posted by David Darlington at February 19, 2007 09:03 AM

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