Woo! NJ Rules! I'm proud!

[holly_evolving]

Thank you thegreyeminence for enlightening my ignorant ass.

Today the New Jersey state legislature created same-sex civil unions with the same privileges as hetero marriages (Assembly bill #3787). Summed up in two sentences:

“Civil union” means the legally recognized union of two eligible individuals of the same sex established pursuant to this act. Parties to a civil union shall receive the same benefits and protections and be subject to the same responsibilities as spouses in a marriage.

For an encore, they went on to fund stem cell research centers in New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark.

I love my blue state.

Also, fuck all you haters.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, imaplatypus sent to me...

Twelve pirates drumming

Eleven gypsies piping

Ten cats a-leaping

Nine rats dancing

Eight vikings a-milking

Seven fairies a-slacking

Six socks a-larping

Five dra-a-a-agons

Four renn faires

Three dunkin donuts

Two my nieces

...and a heinlein in a mythology.

Get your own Twelve Days:

Comments

[thegreyeminence.livejournal.com]

That… is a perfectly reasonable fear.

For now though, momentum is not on their side. They have to both stop the current trend and roll back changes that were ordered by the highest court in the state just to regain the position they used to hold.