New Jersey Gay Marriages to Begin Next Week as Delay Is Rejected
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New Jersey’s highest court cleared the way for gay marriages to begin Monday, making the state the 14th to allow same-sex marriages while handing a defeat to Republican Governor Chris Christie.
The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously rejected Christie’s request that it block such marriages while the state appeals a judge’s ruling that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry. The governor sought a stay of Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson’s Sept. 27 decision that New Jersey’s civil-union law unconstitutionally discriminated against gay couples. The state’s highest court has scheduled oral arguments in that appeal for Jan. 6 and 7.