Yay!

[pegkerr]

Hurray for New Jersey!

Except--not quite far enough. The call for equal treatment is welcome, but I hope that by punting it back to the legislature that the court won't be simply inviting the legislature to create a second-class type of marriage.

Still . . . a step forward. Hopefully. And New Jersey, unlike Massachussetts, doesn't have that law with the residency requirement, which might eventually force a test of DOMA before the Supreme Court.

Comments

[joelrosenberg.livejournal.com]

You really want a test case on DOMA before the SCOTUS? The folks at Lambda and HRC don't, at least not for the foreseeable future. Right case, right court, right time, and at least two legs of the stool are missing right now.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying I want a test case, I'm saying that it might happen.

*Sigh* What I want is equality. And yeah, the present SCOTUS very well might screw THAT up.

[joelrosenberg.livejournal.com]

They'd pretty much have to -- Lambda and the HRC don't even know what they want other than SSM; they've been ducking central issues about other nontraditional marriages (poly, adult incestuous relationships, etc.), and, realistically, they're not ready to fight the issue in Federal court until they know what they want.

[chaeche.livejournal.com]

Yay New Jersey! Maybe I should move there.