Friday, February 10, 2012

N.J. governor meets with gay lawmaker over marriage fight

Openly gay New Jersey Assemblyman Reed Gusciora met with Gov. Chris Christie this week, and afterward said that, even though they don't see eye to eye on a pending marriage equality bill, they agreed to respect each other's views. Christie wants a statewide vote on whether same-sex couples should be able to marry, but Gusciora said it wouldn't be proper to decide one group's civil rights through a popular vote. "It goes along with the reasoning of the [California] court of appeals that you pit one group of people against another, that you put people like myself up on the ballot for scrutiny, and I don't think that is right," Gusciora said.Philly.com (Philadelphia)/The Associated Press (2/10)

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