By a 55%-40% Margin NJ Voters Favor Same-Sex Marriage Rights

By 55-40 Percent, New Jersey Favors Marriage for Gays, the State's Highest Support Ever, Bucking National Trend; 49 Percent Would Consider Voting for Jim McGreevey Again.

Stunning 81 percent of voters say legislature has better priorities than to try to ban gay marriage in the state constitution.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-04-2005/0003542123&EDATE=

GO New Jersey!!

First Connecticut passes civil unions voluntarily, and now this... come on, NJ...... become the first state to legalize marriage without a court order!! Freedom is on the march, you know!

<< Freedom is on the march, you know! >>

Watch for the sale of torches and pitchforks to skyrocket in the coming weeks!

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I find this unsettling . . . VERY. Since when are our civil rights up for a vote in-or-out by the majority? Since when?

Since when did our Founding Fathers include minority rights in our constitution including our Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment and in other areas of the constitution -- to be voted upon by the majority? I'll tell you the answer = N E V E R.

Precisely why the minority rights were included was to protect the minority from the majority. PERIOD. And if the majority in the state or federal legislature doesn't have the balls -- oops, excuse me -- to promulgate laws to protect the minority from the majority, then guess who interprets the constitution to protect the minority from the majority?

Of course, our courts do. Our courts hear lawsuits of the minority complaining about their denial of their constitutional rights. As was done in Massachusetts. It's all very simple.

Simple, that is, IF one is able to cut through all of George Walker Bush's religion-into-law political crap and others like him.