TRENTON – Senate President Steve Sweeney, Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg and Senator Raymond J. Lesniak issued the following joint statement on the decision by the Christie Administration to withdraw its appeal in the same-sex marriage case, Garden State Equality v. Dow:
“We have said all along that our State gains nothing by wasting funds to defend an unconstitutional ban on marriage equality. The State’s formal opposition in Garden State Equality v. Dow served nothing more than to deny New Jerseyans of federal marital rights. This is a victory for dozens of loving same-sex couples that wed this morning across this state and for thousands more that will marry in the years to come. New Jersey is now a state that grants equality to all committed families and we are a better state for it.”
