The Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled today that homosexual couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples. While the ruling is just they have left it to the Legislature as to wether or not this means “marriage” or civil union. The court has issued a demand to the state legislation that they have 180 days to rewrite state marriage laws to either include homosexual couples or define civil unions.

The ruling of the court in a 4-3 ruling was, “The issue is not about the transformation of the traditional definition of marriage, but about the unequal dispensation of benefits and privileges to one of two similarly situated classes of people.”

What irks me is that states have spent tons of our tax dollars making it illegal to get married if you’re gay, when it’s not really about the concept of marriage as much as it is about the disproportional rights of straight couples compared to gays. Under civil unions gay couples would obtain rights such as the right to inherit possessions if there is no will and health care coverage for state workers.

The concept of a “marriage” according to many conservatives is a practice held dear by the church and many do not believe in homosexuality or look down upon it. Personally, I don’t see why we need to even bother with marriages for homosexuals as you’re giving fuel to the religious folk to fight something that really doesn’t concern them in my opinion. If you afford homosexual unions the same rights as a married couple without calling it marriage is it any less sincere? Not to me it’s not, after all one can get “married” in a court room… does that make their marriage any less than someone who got married in a church?

I say let em have their spousal rights… and focus on something that REALLY matters, like border security etc.