Declaring that "times have changed," the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled yesterday that gay and lesbian couples have the same rights as heterosexual couples - and kicked open the door to same-sex marriage.
But the court left it to Garden State lawmakers to either rewrite the marriage statute or create some form of civil unions - and gave them six months to do it.
Until then, gay New Yorkers still will have to shlep to Massachusetts - the only state where gay marriage is legal - if they want to formally tie the knot.
"I still think this is an enormous victory," said Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer who led a failed bid this summer to overturn New York State's ban on gay marriage. "All that's left open is whether you use the word marriage or not."
Mayor Bloomberg also hailed the ruling.
"I've always believed it's not the government's business who you marry, and I'm committed to work in Albany to change the laws in New York," he said at an event in Chicago."
Of course. The government, as the duly elected overseer of it's society, shouldn't care if you march into a chapel with a billygoat or Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Or if you want 6 or 7 spouses. Or if you favor a harem of 9 year-olds. How's about hitching up with that old baseball glove you sleep with anyway. And if a government doesn't have a stake in the core beliefs of the society it represents, then hell, divorce should be just as easy. Kick the old bag out when she's getting as wrinkly as that Wal-Mart suitjacket.
And hell yeah, the times have changed. So many people rape and murder and rob you blind that perhaps it's time to make those peccadillo's legal as well.
Liberals. Linear thinking. The twain does not meet.
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