Thursday News Roundup

If at first you don't succeed... (0.00 / 0)

One gay couple had to shop around to find a township that would help them tie the knot.

Let's not forget this news from Warren County:

The mayor of Phillipsburg, Warren County, performed one civil union ceremony for a same-sex couple. He said he will do no more.

Mayor Harry Wyant said he is giving up performing marriages and civil unions as of Saturday.

"I thought I could do it; I thought I could get by. I found it somewhat uncomfortable," he said in reports Tuesday.

Let's see if I can say something nice for the poor mayor of Phillipsburg? Umm... At least you tried?

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by: dfa_lewis @ Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 11:47:53 AM UTC

I can't think of anything nice to say (3.00 / 1)

Mayor Harry Wyant doesn't "feel comfortable" performing the duties of his office?  There's a solution for that.  Mayor Wyant could resign and then he wouldn't have to do those uncomfortable civil unions anymore.

Is it in his job description that he only has to do the things with which he's comfortable?  Sometimes I have to do things in my job with which I am not comfortable, but when I accepted the job, I accepted the tasks with which I wasn't comfortable, too.  If I were so uncomfortable that I couldn't do them, then I couldn't do my job.

DBK

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by: DBK @ Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 13:58:17 PM UTC

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It's a cop-out, but... (0.00 / 0)

performing ceremonies is a privilege, not a duty. I'm satisfied that NJ officials can't pick & choose what type of unions to approve. Well, there's that, and the fact that those who opt out bring attention to their unwillingness (or inability) to represent ALL of their constituents.

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by: dfa_lewis @ Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 15:51:23 PM UTC

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Party operatives throw dirt at Weinberg (4.00 / 1)

Here's the latest on the snub of Loretta Wienberg (sic)

The very latest from the Record is today's editorial (Muddying the waters) that actually looks into the allegations and concludes:

But the facts don't add up to any serious breach of ethics. At most, Weinberg may have inadvertently violated a campaign finance law on her disclosure forms. Even that is uncertain... Yes, Thurber asked Weinberg to consider supporting her bid for the bench. But that's the starting point for all state judicial candidates in New Jersey -- with their local senators.

I have to admit, for a print newspaper, sometimes that Record of Bergen County isn't half-bad.

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by: dfa_lewis @ Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 13:27:29 PM UTC