New Jersey Senate Defeats Gay Marriage Measure

The New Jersey Senate Thursday voted against a gay marriage measure. After an afternoon of public debate, the state lawmakers, by a 20-14 margin, defeated the marriage bill, an act that in all likelihood will closet any discussion of legalizing same sex marriage in the state for years. New Jersey has a civil union act in place, passed in 2006, but evidence suggests that civil unions fail homosexual couples in a multitude of ways.