Even as the state Legislature moves forward with civil union legislation, the state Bar Association is lining up on the side of marriage equality (I saw this first on BlueJersey). It’s president, Wayne Positan, said the Assembly bill “needlessly creates ‘a multitude of questions’ simply to avoid calling the union of two people of the same sex a ‘marriage.'”
“Why not just call it what it is?” Positan asked. He said a rival bill by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) that would recognize same-sex marriages is “the best way of complying” with the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Oct. 25 decision. That ruling said same-sex couples must be allowed to form relationships that carry all the rights and responsibilities of marriage but left it up to lawmakers whether to call them something else, such as civil unions.
Positan said creating a new legal structure called civil unions will “create a lot of work for lawyers” resolving arguments over what the new terminology means. He said allowing same-sex couples to marry is “a nice, simple, concise way of dealing with it as opposed to a lot of contrivances to get to the same place.”
South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
The Blog of South Brunswick
Hank Kalet 
Marriage equality doesn\’t solve all of the problems. For one thing, NJ may need to go to court to protect the rights they grant to NJ residents if those rights do not receive full faith and credit from other states. However, it solves a lot of problems with the \”separate but equal\” pushers.I still say the best move is to take marriage out of the state\’s hands, have civil unions for both hetero and homosexual couples, and leave \”marriage\” to religious institutions, but I have been told that is not going to ever happen.