{"id":10276,"date":"2013-09-27T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T21:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10276"},"modified":"2013-09-27T18:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T01:53:55","slug":"nj-judge-orders-marriage-equality-must-move-forward-in-state-following-scotus-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10276","title":{"rendered":"NJ Judge Orders Marriage Equality Must Move Forward in State Following SCOTUS Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not sure what’s going on, of late. But still more good news today<\/a>…<\/p>\n

A New Jersey judge ruled on Friday<\/a> that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry, finding that failing to do so deprives them of rights that are now guaranteed by the federal government following a ruling by the Supreme Court in June. <\/p>\n

It is the first time a court has struck down a state ban on same-sex marriage as a direct result of the Supreme Court’s ruling, and it comes as Gov. Chris Christie continues to oppose allowing gay marriage in the state. His administration may appeal.
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\nLawmakers passed legislation in 2012 to allow same-sex marriage, but it was vetoed by Mr. Christie, a Republican who is considered a leading candidate for his party’s 2016 presidential nomination.
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\nJudge [Mary C.] Jacobson’s opinion said same-sex marriages would be allowed starting Oct. 21.<\/p><\/div>\n

If Christie would like to be a true<\/i> conservative here<\/a> — one who believes in equal protection for all, as per that thing called the U.S. Constitution — he’d give up the ghost on this one and not<\/i> appeal Jacobson’s decision. But, Republican primary voters<\/a> don’t want actual conservatism. They want Rightwingism. Your move, Chris.<\/p>\n

Either way, this continues to signal the ultimate end — and probably sooner than we all suspect — of marriage discrimination across the entire nation. (Yes, they’re coming for you Utah, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, et al! Get over it.)<\/p>\n

And it also represents still more surprisingly good news for a Friday — for any day, actually — following on this very good news previously<\/a>. This can’t continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure what’s going on, of late. But still more good news today… A New Jersey judge ruled on Friday that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry, finding that failing to do so deprives them of rights that are now guaranteed by the federal government following a ruling by the Supreme Court in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,309,50,126,127,313],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-christie","category-gay-marriage","category-new-jersey","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution","category-us-supreme-court","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}