N.J. voters back gay marriage, poll says

While the bias of this study is obvious, I doubt Garden State Equity would say otherwise it should be noted that Gay Marriage should be legal. Or we should all have to get Civil Unions-you cant have unequal rights under our system.

As a gay New Jerseyan and American, I simply don't understand why anybody would want me not to have the same rights as they have. I didn't have a choice to be gay, so why should I be penalized for being who G-d made me?

While I am for marriage equality, simply because it really doesn't bother me what people want to do with their lives and I'm personally not a real religious person, I don't know what to think about this specific poll.

I think any poll that has Corzine approvals in the 60's and Bush approvals in the 40's has got one interesting batch of people as their sample and may not truly represent the state.

I think this is something we can all agree with on here.(about the poll that is) 

They should honestly make marriage equality a ballot question. I would support it, I think it is a generational change and I'm part of the younger generation that was taught to be much more tolerant and not to discriminate.

I understand however, why one's moralty would get in the way and why most religious institutions would not want to marry a homosexual couple.

But I feel this isn't about their community wanting to get married in churches or places of religion, it's about equality and personally I don't see anything wrong with it.

I do understand and respect why people oppose it, if it is on moral grounds that is. (Not because they think homosexuals choose to be that way)

I am asking this honestly and not as a flame or anything. How can the state codify "love"? I am a single straight man, and I don't get to bestow benefits on anyone. If it's strictly about the benefits (health care, etc.), then shouldn't every person be able to choose someone to give those perks to, regardless of a situation of some sort of unspoken and undefined physical relationship? I think it's anti-single to say that you have to marry someone, man or woman, to take advantage of sharing benefits. Because if you say, "Well you have to have a mutual physical relationship with someone to qualify." I would say that is patently unfair. Just because I'm unlovable! (www.myspace.com/pstchrisp) If you say, "That's what civil unions are for." Then I'd say that GSE's arguments can not be about equal rights in terms of benefits but something else (which is fine). Zogby's polls are sometimes the only ones that get it right, but more often then not he's way off. I think he had Kerry winning with about 320 EV's the day before Election Day '04.

On one point no one is asking religious institutions to marry anyone. I was denied marriage in a Catholic church I married a woman. However, that said the point here is that the state has to recognize all unions equally. IF you do not call it marriage than it is not equal to marriage. This is perhaps the most relevant SUpreme Court Case on this issue "Seperate but Equal" cannot exist in this country. My questions about the poll are sincere-I doubt Corzine's approval is in the 60s and that Bush's are in the 40s that gives me reason to say that the sample might be poor. However, I believe that most NJ residents either support Gay Marriage or could care less about the issue.

Hillary Clinton has more male anatomy than the NJ GOP Republican followship.

This is a winning issue for Republicans that has long tentacles into the traditional Democrat constituency.

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin

If this poll is so accurate, the "gay" community should be anxious to move forward, let's do a real poll at the voting booth. No Zogby poll can count as a true position of the people, that is why we have elections.

I am so sick of this!!!!!  It is in my face every single day like it is the great issue of the time.  Poverty, war, the fiscal ruin of the state, unemployment.... need I go on?  This is crazy... a few want to practice their own brand of relationship, and make everyone say it's ok..... because it is about THEM, all of the other issues mentioned earlier must be pushed off so we address the gay issue.  Talk about selfish!

 Let these posters tell me the gay issue is so important that we should deal with THEM instead of addressing billions in unfunded state liabilities, crumbling bridges, the welfare of our seniors, or education !!!!!!!!!!!!!  SO SICK OF THIS!!!!!!! 

Give it up.... ask the voters the question so we can get on with the real business.   If the gay community goes any other path than a vote of the people I MUST BELIEVE THAT THIS IS JUST A DIVERSION to keep us all occupied. 

Put it on the ballot.

Progressives/moderates: "Should the legal definition of marriage extended to encompass the union of any two adult, consenting human beings?" Conservatives: "Should we all condemn ourselves to eternal hellfire by allowing Satan to run amok in our midst, which will inevitably happen if New Jersey transforms itself into Gomorrah and allows any two people who want to to be married?"

means you did intend it, or at least you regularly use the term fruit derogatively in your everyday life. If you didn't you would have let it go. Says alot about you.

And what is the equality "argument" intended to divert attention from? Is the actual motive the desire to wantonly corrupt the moral fiber of the nation?

Marriage may be "sacred" (to some more than others it would seem), but it is not "natural" in the sense that it is based on the laws of science. Being gay, however, ultimately is...just as being straight is. It's hard-wired into the way our brains work, how our neurons fire and the chemistry of our synapses and glands. You may be able to swing religion however you wish to fit your argument, but the laws of science are immutable and apolitical. Just out of curiosity, how can you feel that gays are not actually out to "corrupt the moral fiber of the nation" and yet simultaneously belong on the "ever growing list of moral corruption," ostensibly right up there with believing in global warming and evolution?