This week, lawmakers will vote on same-sex marriage in New Jersey. Here’s to hoping that equality — a view that continues to gain popularity in high places — wins out.
In September, Bill Clinton described why he now approves of marriage equality and no longer restricts his position to civil unions.
Bill Clinton on marriage equality [video link]
I realized that I was over 60 years old, I grew up in a different time, and I was hung up about the word.
I had all these gay friends, I had all these gay couple friends, and I was hung up about it, and I decided I was wrong.
That our society has an interest in coherence and strength and commitment and mutually reinforcing loyalties, and if gay couples want to call their union "marriage," and a state agrees, as several have now, or a religous body will sanction it, I don't think the states should stop the religious bodies from sanctioning it. I don't think the rest of us should get in the way of that. I think it's a good thing, not a bad thing.
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