Gay Rights Activists Bring Marriage into Court Again!

(TRENTON) Six homosexual couples represented by Lambda Legal Defense Fund, a homosexual activist legal group have filed a motion in aid of litigants, which effectively would re-open Lewis v. Harris. This is the lawsuit which the New Jersey Supreme Court commended to the legislature to create an equal structure of benefits which the legislature eventually called ‘civil unions.’ Now they want the NJ Supreme Court to fully redefine marriage to include same-sex couples.

Len Deo, Founder and President of the New Jersey Family Policy Council:

“Activists in the homosexual movement are relentless and have little respect for the people and the democratic process,” said Len Deo, Founder and President of the New Jersey Family Policy Council. “They brought their case before the Courts in 2002 – 2006, and lost. They came to the legislature in January and lost there too. Now they are back in the Courts with their demands. But it’s the people who ought to be making this decision. The activists know that the people want to preserve marriage as the union of one man and one woman as they have in every state where a vote was held.”

The plaintiffs in Lewis v. Harris argued, as the plaintiffs in this lawsuit will likely argue, that same-sex “marriage” is mandated by the New Jersey Constitution in Article I, Paragraph 1 which reads, “All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.”

“The framers of our Constitution obviously had no thought to fabricate homosexual ‘marriage’,” says Deo, “Why do the activists need to pretend that the Constitution addresses an issue that it does not address? Let the people of New Jersey, from whom the Constitution derives its authority, vote on an amendment that does deal with this all-important cultural question…”

Homosexual activists in New Jersey used the courts in the Lewis v. Harris case to force the legislature to concoct a marriage counterfeit known as “civil unions.”  That wasn’t enough for Garden State Equality and the small number of activists they represent. They claim “civil unions” “aren’t working”—that they don’t provide the “equality” that the court required in Lewis.

Since the imposition of “civil unions” in 2007, only 12 “civil union” couples out of 4,170 “civil union” couples filed formal complaints.

“Same-sex ‘marriage’ activists claim that “civil unions” aren’t working, but they have no evidence to back it up,” said Deo.  “This isn’t really about rights and privileges; it’s about a word: marriage. They know that they need “civil unions” to fail to get that word.”