But while many are fighting for equal rights, others including Chris Christie are firmly standing against it. While we knock the Christie campaign repeatedly for their lack of specifics, the issue of marriage equality is one where he leaves no room for ambiguity:Christie not only opposes it personally, but he's signaled he will do what he can to stop it:
Republican Christopher J. Christie said that if is elected New Jersey governor next month, he would do all he could to block the state from allowing gay marriage.
Even if a bill were to be signed before he could stop it, he would try to overturn it:
Should lawmakers pass a gay-marriage bill, Christie said he would support amending the state's Constitution to ban the practice.
I also believe marriage should be exclusively between one man and one woman. While, I have no issue with same sex couples sharing contractual rights, I believe that marriage should remain the exclusive domain of one man and one woman. If a bill legalizing same sex marriage came to my desk as Governor, I would veto it. If the law were changed by judicial fiat, I would be in favor of a constitutional amendment on the ballot so that voters, not judges, would decide this important social question.
"I want to be very clear on this," Corzine said. "I don't call it gay marriage. I call it marriage equality because I believe that we ought to be treating people under our Constitution here in the state of New Jersey as determined by our courts. There needs to be equal treatment under the law. If it's lame-duck, or if it doesn't occur in lame-duck, I'll push for it in the next year."
So while many march for marriage equality today, Chris Christie is leading his own march against it. If the voters don't give him the opportunity, he'll be left standing along while the march passes him by.
