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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Interfaith Ministry, Plainfield, NJ

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.

Gay Friendly Wedding Vendors in Northern New Jersey

David Beverly offers interfaith ministry and wedding services to gay and lesbian couples in the Plainfield, New Jersey area. His services include commitment ceremonies, spiritual counseling, and life coaching, and Interfaith Ministry focuses on the LGBT community.

If you’re looking for a gay friendly, affirming wedding officiant in Plainfield, NJ, give us a call.

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: April Beer, Officiant, West Orange, New Jersey

Friday, December 10th, 2010

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Gay Friendly Location Wedding Vendors

April Beer, Wedding Officiant, West Orange, NJThere are a few really important moments in your life, and your wedding day is one of the most significant. You deserve a special ceremony as wonderful and unique as the two of you are. I will work with you to create the perfect ceremony, inspired by you and supported by my own experience.

As your wedding officiant, it’s my mission to help you realize all of your visions and dreams about this day.

I will meet with you and help you determine what’s important to you as a couple, and I’ll then put together a unique ceremony honoring your union. Whatever ceremony you decide to have – civil, interfaith, non-denominational, spiritual, or religious – your wedding day will be remembered by you and your friends and family for the rest of your lives.

I am very active in the gay and lesbian community in New Jersey, and the last year was a great year for civil unions here.

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: All Faiths Ceremonies, Edgewater, New Jersey

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

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Gay Friendly Location Wedding Vendors in New Jersey

All Faiths Ceremonies - Edgewater, NJSheila is an ordained, licensed interfaith minister in Edgewater, New Jersey who will work hard to help gay and lesbian couples create the wonderfully unique, perfect, loving wedding you’ve always dreamed about. Your wedding ceremony will be the cornerstone of your marriage together, and it should reflect your special relationship and encompass the friends and family who love and support you. There are so many ways to be creative with your special day. Sheila will support you and help you to fulfill your own personal wedding dreams.

Sheila likes to meet with her clients initially to determine if she is a good match for you and your wedding ceremony. She’s happy to share her life, history, education, gay & lesbian wedding experience, philosophy and whatever else you might be curious about.

Sheila has a warm heart, unlimited creativity, and she cares a great deal about helping the couples she works with to have the most wonderful and magical ceremony they can envision. She brings professionalism and capability to the table, and can help turn any dreams you have into realty, including any spirituality, heritage, or aspect of yourselves you may wish to express through your wedding. She is also very intuitive, and can offer you many useful ideas that may appeal to you.

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Today’s Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Ultimate Caterer – Marlboro, New Jersey

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

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Gay Friendly New Jersey Wedding Vendors

Ultimate Caterer - Marlboro, New JerseyThe Ultimate Caterer. We start by coordinating the perfect location…. whether a traditional Hall, beautiful Mansion, sophisticated Hotel, elegant Yacht or a Garden Party at your home complete with tenting, greenery, tulling & lights. We have more than 200 locations to show you, each one unique in its own way.

Your Catering Specialist will guide you through planning a menu specific to your tastes. House specialties include Chicken Franchese Marsala, Salmon Poached in Chardonnay with Fresh Dill and Chateaubriand in our famous 4 onion demiglace. Your Celebration will include a menu customized just for you, with your favorite selections from our extensive menus.

Special dietary requirements are never a problem, we offer Glatt Kosher Catering, Vegetarian Menus and traditional ethnic menus including Italian, Indian, Persian, Russian, French, Mexican and more. Our Professional Chefs have extensive culinary training and the area’s top culinary schools place their externs with us for training under our Chefs’ supervision.

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NJ: Jewish Paper Backs Down, Will No Longer Publish Same Sex Wedding Announcements

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

A week after publishing a same-sex marriage announcement for the first time in its history, The Jewish Standard said Monday that it will not publish such announcements in the future because it received a “firestorm” of criticism from Orthodox rabbis.

The Teaneck-based paper decided not to publish gay marriage announcements because it is such a divisive issue within the Jewish community and the paper “has always striven to draw the community together, rather than drive its many segments apart,” editor Rebecca Kaplan Boroson wrote in an editorial posted on the Jewish Standard’s website.

But its decision not to publish same-sex announcements unleashed a new barrage of criticism on the paper from within the Jewish and gay communities.

Full Story from NorthJersey.com

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NJ: Supreme Court Rejects Gay Marriage Case on 3-3 Vote

Monday, July 26th, 2010

The New Jersey Supreme Court will not consider whether the state’s civil union law provides equal rights to gay couples before the case is heard in a lower court.

The court announced Monday that it could not consider the merits of the claim by six same-sex couples that New Jersey’s civil union law is unconstitutional, until there is a trial record.

Gay couples unsuccessfully sued New Jersey four years ago for the right to marry. They claimed that by creating civil unions, the state did not fulfill a court order to treat them the same as heterosexual couples seeking to marry.

Full Story from the NY Times

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NJ: School Board Bans Gay Book

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

A New Jersey school board voted to ban a gay-themed book from a high school library following a complaint from a local chapter of Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project, a conservative group that asks visitors to its website to “Help us restore America.”

The school in question is in Mount Holly, a town located in Burlington County, New Jersey, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 5. The article said that 18 9.12 members attended a March 18 meeting and demanded that three books be taken out of the high school’s library.

All three dealt with issues of human sexuality, specifically gay themes. The article identified the three targeted books, listing one as Amy Sonnie’s 2000 book Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, which is now out of print.

Full Story from Edge Boston

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NJ: Garden State Equality Files Brief With State Supreme Court

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Today, Garden State Equality, along with five children’s and family organizations, filed an amicus brief with the New Jersey Supreme Court. The brief contends that denying marriage to same-sex couples inflicts psychological harm on children being raised by same-sex couples as well as on gay and lesbian youth. The brief was filed in support of the motion filed by Lambda Legal in March asking the New Jersey Supreme Court to grant same-sex couples the right to marry.

NJ’s unequal marriage law hurts children of same-sex couples, as well as gay and lesbian youth

The brief says that testimony collected by New Jersey’s Senate Judiciary Committee, New Jersey’s Civil Union Review Commission, and social science literature support the claim that New Jersey’s separate and unequal civil union law is harming New Jersey’s children by denying same-sex parents the right to marry. The brief also argues that lesbian and gay youth are harmed by New Jersey’s discriminatory marriage law by sending the message that they are not equal to their straight peers and that their relationships can never be granted the legal status that opposite-sex couples can obtain.

Full Story from Examiner.com

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NJ: ACLU Joins Lawsuit for Gay Marriage

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

The American Civil Liberties Union has joined a lawsuit arguing that same-sex couples don’t have full rights under New Jersey’s civil unions law. The ACLU’s New Jersey chapter said Monday that New Jersey’s law “has failed to fulfill the actual promise of equality.”

In 2006, the state Supreme Court ruled that gay couples deserve equal treatment, but left the details up to the state Legislature. It responded by legalizing civil unions. Gay rights groups continued to seek full marriage rights, but in January the state Senate defeated a bill to legalize gay marriage.

Gay couples then returned to court, claiming the state has not complied with the 2006 ruling.

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Full Story from 1010wins

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NJ: Catholic Bishop Objects to Gay Marriage Course

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Seton Hall University is offering a class on gay marriage this fall but Newark Archbishop John J. Myers is not happy about it. The Archbishop said in a statement that the class “troubles (him) greatly” because it doesn’t follow the beliefs of the Catholic Church.

His partial statement from The Star-Ledger:

“This proposed course seeks to promote as legitimate a train of thought that is contrary to what the Church teaches. As a result, the course is not in synch with Catholic teaching,” Myers said. “Consequently, the board of trustees of Seton Hall have asked the board of regents to investigate the matter of this proposed course and to take whatever action is required under the law to protect the Catholicity of this university.”

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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