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Support Gay and Lesbian Marriages in New Jersey

Support Gay and Lesbian Marriages in New Jersey

Closed — 87 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 22 years, 10 months ago
I am a student at William Paterson University in New Jersey. For one of my classes, I had to create an action poroject about sexism. I recently discovered that New Jersey does not support Gay and Lesbian Marriages. I am starting a petition as my action. Once I recieve a lot of names, I will send it to the appropriate source down in Trenton. The ACLU believes that anti-gay marriage laws violate the \"Full Faith and Credit\" clause of the U.S. Constitution, which states: \"Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records and Judicial Proceedings of every State.\" The idea behind this clause was to make sure that in a nation where people could freely more from state to state, each state would respect each others laws. Moreover, the ACLU believes these laws violate equal protection, since they seek to discriminate against lesbian and gay Americans based on homophobia. The laws also violate the right to interstate travel under Supreme Court precedent, which has held that a state cannot discriminate against people entering its territory by imposing unconstitutional conditions on the right to enter.

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David Murphy
22 years ago Featured

Equality for all citizens regardless of who they love. End the discrimination now.

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Mike Doyle
22 years ago Featured

Its 2013 already. Time to catch up with the rest of the country NJ.

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Sarah Hamilton
22 years ago Featured

Love is love plain and simple. Everyone deserves to marry who they want.

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Jen Reyes
22 years ago Featured

Finally some action on this!! So happy to help out.

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Linda Morales
22 years ago Featured

My neighbors have been together 20 years and its ridiculous they cant wed like anyone else. FIX THIS.

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Jason Klein
22 years ago Featured

About time. This state has been dragging its feet for way too long on this.