New Jersey is for lovers

Kudos to the Garden State for approving same sex unions.

According to the New Jersey bill, two people who enter into a civil union "shall have all of the same benefits, protections and responsibilities under law, whether they derive from statute, administrative or court rule, public policy, common law or any other source of civil law, as are granted to spouses in a marriage."

To me, the issue has always been equality before the law. This bill seems to grant that. As I heard one Jersey legislature put it on NPR this morning (and I am paraphrasing), “the argument has been changed from one of equality, to one of labels”. That, IMHO, is a much less significant discussion.