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The New Jersey Supreme Court, as you know, has left it to our state legislature to establish either civil unions, which would perpetuate a separate, unequal and inferior status for same-sex relationships, or true marriage equality.  The Supreme Court has given the legislature 180 days -- through April 2007 -- to decide which.  Garden State Equality has already secured three legislators to sponsor a 100-percent marriage equality bill, with more legislators to come.

We at Garden State Equality ask you to sign this petition asking the legislature to support the marriage-equality bill, and to reject any civil-unions bill as a substitute.   We will present personally this petition to Governor Corzine and the legislature.  Please provide all the contact information requested. 

As the New Jersey experience has painfully shown, contraptions short of marriage -- like New Jersey's domestic-partnership law and also civil union laws -- don't work in the real world.   Hospitals and other employers have told domestic-partnered couples across New Jersey:  We don't care what the domestic partnership law says.  You're not married.

To ensure that this becomes the biggest petition New Jersey has ever seen, please use the "Tell-a-Friend" link above to forward this e-mail to your family, friends, colleagues and members of your organization and congregation.  

And to strengthen Garden State Equality's fight for marriage equality at this unprecedent time for New Jersey's LGBTI community -- and the millions of straight New Jerseyans who insist on equality for all -- please consider a donation.   DONATE TO GARDEN STATE EQUALITY NOW