What's In A Name? (NJ same-sex marriage)

[MrCoffee]

The New Jersey Supreme Court held that same-sex couples are entitled to equal social and economic status as opposite-sex couples, but that the State does not have to call it marriage.

What do you think? Is the word "marriage" crucial to the issue?

[MrCoffee]

1. Edited because the poll dropped the quotation marks when i posted it

sorry about that

[nam78_two]

2. A troll seems to have voted for # 4

Same-sex couples don't have the "right" to use the word marriage? :eyes:

[MrCoffee]

3. I fixed that option...the poll got all jacked up when i originally posted it

[meegbear]

4. Separate but equal partnership ...

Jim Crow matrimony.

[MrCoffee]

7. i gave the NJSCt opinon a quick scan, and i don't think that's a fair

assessment.

It looks like the NJSCt is pretty serious about making every right and privilege available to opposite-sex married couples equally available to same-sex couples.

[TheBaldyMan]

5. as long as it carries the same legal protection it doesn't matter ...

what you call it.

Here in the UK we've had 'civil partnerships' for a couple of years now. Finally the politicians came round to the view as the vast majority of the population. People call it getting married or a civil ceremony or whatever.

As long as couples can settle down and be happy together that's the important thing.

on edit: oops, voted before the options changed - change mine from other to first option.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Civil marriage isn't connected with religious rites of marriage

except in the minds of pea brains who don't understand that when they are married in a religious ceremony it's only legal because the state has granted that privilege to the officiant.

I don't like playing word games. If the pea brains can be shut up by calling the civil event a 'union' I'm fine with that so long as 'civil union' is the only recognized legal term for what is now deemed 'marriage' in civil law.

[MrCoffee]

8. WOW. I'm honestly surprised by the results so far.

[Warpy]

9. The rights are paramount

After all, you can call it whatever you want to, even if the state has gotten stuffy about it so the preachers won't get offended.

[sallyseven]

10. Thank god. Massachusetts has been the only

sane state so far. It did not change anything in my life, nor my childrens, not any of my relatives either. It doesn't hurt and you won't even notice that gays can marry. Some people are just too stupid to understand.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. Yes it is important. There is no such thing as seperate but equal. nt