Dear Friends of Marriage,
Same-sex marriage advocates are pulling out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to pass a gay marriage bill in New Jersey before Governor Christie takes office in January.
As of today they don't have the votes, and they know it.
The legislature is back in Trenton for a lame duck session this week, and Garden State Equality has declared today an urgent lobby day at the statehouse, calling same-sex couples from around the state to descend on Trenton to push for same-sex marriage.
The Democratic leadership in the Senate has expressed a reluctance to put their members on record unless they know they have the votes to pass it. Judiciary Committee Chair Paul Sarlo recently said he wouldn't move the SSM bill through committee unless the votes were already in place to pass the bill when it got to the floor of the Senate. And incoming Senate President Steve Sweeney suggested to reporters last week that the Senate should use the lame duck session to fix the economy, rather than debate same-sex marriage.
But these leaders have been under tremendous pressure, and late last week, Sen. Loretta Weinberg told the press that she had obtained a commitment from Senate Democratic leaders to move the same-sex marriage bill during this week's lame duck session.
That's right -- same-sex marriage could be voted on in New Jersey before Thanksgiving!
Your legislators need to hear from you right now!
The same-sex marriage bill is not on the published agenda for today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. But in the lame duck session things can move quickly and we need to put our legislators on notice: Don't Mess with Marriage!
Please click here right now to email your state senator and assemblymembers, and then forward this email to everyone you know who will help us stop same-sex marriage at this critical moment. Pass it on to friends and neighbors. Mention it to people from church, and talk about it with your family.
Today, NOM is launching a $500,000 campaign to shine the light on Trenton, making sure all New Jerseyans know about the misguided priorities of Governor Corzine and legislators who, after four years in office, have decided that now, after Governor Corzine's failed reelection bid, is the time to push a gay marriage bill. Click here to listen to our new radio ad.
Faithfully,Brian S. Brown
Executive Director
National Organization for Marriage
20 Nassau Street, Suite 242
Princeton, NJ 08542
bbrown@nationformarriage.org
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Thank you! We owe you a debt of gratitude for going up to bat for our country.
P.S. Please post where each NJ State Senators stands and his or her contact info.
Thank you again.
yes, I'd actually like to know how these guys come down in NJ. Who is for, who is against, and who are the flip floppers?
To call Same sex relationship (sexual/contractual) as Marriage is very unjust, unfair, cheating, confusing and damaging to families, society , nations and world.
In the business world we do not allow new company to use name of established company even though the products are very similar in nature.
Such as car companies have different names. While in same sex relationship there is a great deal of differences compared to normal marriage between man and woman, and hence the relationship sould be called by other names.
One suggestion is to intriduce few more new words for clarity, brevity and simlicity and more importantly preserving sanctity of marriage institution.
Let us call close physical (sexual), contractual and or religious formal relationship between Man and Women as Marriage ; Man and Man as Garriage and woman and woman as Lerriage.
Respective partner will be called Spouse, Gaouse and Leouse.
Respective status will be called Married, Garried and lerried.
Respective verb can be marrying, garrying and lerrying.