Gov. Jon Corzine wants to give New Jersey homosexuals the right to "marry," but he has said he will wait until after the fall elections to sign any bill into law.
"Governor Corzine knows that the majority of New Jersey residents do not support same-sex 'marriage,' " said Jenny Tyree, associate marriage analyst for Focus on the Family Action. "That's likely why he is waiting until after the elections to push for the redefinition of marriage."
Next year, however, may not be much better for such a drastic measure: The governor and the Legislature face re-election.
When Corzine ran for the U.S. Senate and when he initially ran for governor, he said he believed marriage was the union of a man and a woman.
“Governor Corzine has flipped on this position,” said Len Deo, president and executive director of the New Jersey Family Policy Council. “Now he's starting to say he sees same-sex 'marriage' coming to New Jersey. Well, he doesn’t see it coming, he’s going to help bring it unless we can stand up and stop it."
Deo's group is gathering grassroots support for a constitutional amendment to protect marriage.
“We are pressing the Legislature to move a state constitutional amendment to, once and for all, define marriage as the union between one man and one woman only,” he said.
It then would go to the voters.
