Six same-sex couples today will ask the New Jersey Supreme Court to allow gays to marry, their attorney said. “Second-class status isn’t marriage. That’s why we’re returning to court,” said Hayley Gorenberg, deputy legal director for Lambda Legal, which is filing the motion asking the state’s highest court to revisit the matter of gay marriage.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2006 in Lewis vs. Harris that committed same-sex couples deserve the same rights and obligations as married people. Later that year, state lawmakers legalized civil unions, which were to confer all the benefits of marriage on same-sex couples without using the term “marriage.”
But gay and lesbian couples and advocacy group Garden State Equality have said the civil union law has not worked and they continued to seek a law giving them the right to marry.
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