NJFPC Files for Intervention Status with NJ Supreme Court!

(TRENTON) The New Jersey Family Policy Council (NJFPC) announced today that it has asked the New Jersey Supreme Court for the right to intervene in the Lambda Legal Defense lawsuit before the Court in aid of litigants rights, which effectively would re-open Lewis v. Harris, the same-sex “marriage” lawsuit decided in October 2006.

“This is the same 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,” stated Len Deo, Founder and President of the NJFPC.

Demetrios Stratis, Esq. representing the NJFPC stated “We seek intervention because we know that the Attorney General’s office, which is defending the Lewis v. Harris case, has a clear conflict of interest and cannot challenge the validity of the report of the Civil Union Review Commission which states that civil unions are not working. Due to the AG’s conflict of interest, the NJFPC has a much broader arc of freedom to respond to the Commission’s very biased and unsubstantiated conclusions. The facts were broadly misrepresented by the commission and our two rebuttal reports show that plain and clear. The NJ Supreme Court should consider this in its deliberations because the effectiveness of civil unions is the central issue of the case,” concluded Stratis.

Many have told the NJFPC that when it comes to the Court and the potential reopening of the Lewis v. Harris case, the people of New Jersey no longer have a voice. “I believe the New Jersey Family Policy Council can be that voice for the people and stand up for their Constitutional rights 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,” continued Deo.

The framers of our Constitution obviously had no thought to fabricate homosexual ‘marriage’,” Deo added. “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…,” Deo further explained.  Homosexual activists in New Jersey used the courts in the Lewis v. Harris case to force the legislature to adopt civil unions. That wasn’t enough for Garden State Equality (GSE) 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, but the truth be told that GSE has done nothing to make civil unions succeed. In fact they have done everything to show civil unions aren’t working, but they have no evidence except anecdotal stories 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,” Deo concluded.