Gay Marriage Bill Awaits Governor’s Call in N.J.

Posted on Feb 16, 2012

AP / Rich Schultz

Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver hugs Assemblyman Reed Gusciora after the bill he sponsored legalizing same-sex marriages passed at the State House in Trenton, N.J., on Thursday.

The news that a bill legalizing gay marriage in New Jersey made it through the state Assembly on Thursday would be cause for immediate celebration if Gov. Chris Christie wasn’t poised to veto the measure. Here’s hoping.  —KA

AP via Google News:

The 42-33 vote sends the bill to Christie, who won’t take immediate action. The Republican governor who opposes gay marriage had promised “very swift action” if the bill passed both houses of the Legislature, but the Assembly isn’t required to send the bill to his desk until the close of business Friday. The Senate approved the bill Monday.

“Without question this is a historic day in the state of New Jersey,” Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver said after the vote. She said she had never been more proud of the Democratic caucus for doing “what citizens sent us here to do: to deliberate, to use the legislative process to represent the interests of all New Jerseyans.”

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