Homosexual Marriage In NJ Via The Lame Duck

Below is a message from Steve Lonegan that immediately affects NJ & could easily spread to other states. Steve's message pertains to NJ's lame duck Senate getting ready to pass a homosexual marriage bill. The point is that the Democrats do not have the votes to pass such a measure so four Republicans came from nowhere to provide the needed votes for passage. Worse yet, if possible, Governor-elect Chris Christie who had campaigned as a traditional values conservative opposing homosexual marriage & who also had accepted support from groups like the NJ Family Policy Council has remained silent on the matter.

Now I had some great discussions with many of you just before the election re the importance for all of us to find candidates who live & will govern by the principles that our country was founded on. This was also one of Alan Keyes main points in his speech @ the Woodbridge Tea Party on October 24. Chris Christie was not such a candidate - I thought Christie would come in and tinker around the edges for a few months & it would not be long before you would not be able to tell the difference between Christie's & Corzine's governance. I never thought it would be this soon that the similarities would surface but I sure am glad that neither Carol or I voted for Christie.

Just read the horror story below & if this is important to you call any of the people Steve lists @ the end of his message if you have not worn your fingers out during the last ten months.

Last Friday "gay" marriage was DOA. State Senate Judiciary Chairman Paul Sarlo, a Democrat, said that he wasn't going to bring the bill to enact it before his committee, because he didn't think it had the votes to pass during the "lame duck" session. But something happened over the weekend. According to NJN, four liberal Republicans in the New Jersey Senate - Bill Baroni, Jennifer Beck, Kip Bateman, and Sean Kean - said that they would provide the votes to pass gay marriage in New Jersey. That's right, the Democrats lacked the votes to pass gay marriage, so they weren't going to even try. Then four liberal Republicans crossed-over to help and now it looks like New Jersey will have gay marriage. This is a flip-flop, because legislators like Jennifer Beck are on record as opposed to ramming through votes during the lame duck session, after an election, when no one is paying attention. Voters in thirty one states have voted on and defeated gay marriage. Apparently, these four "Republicans" would deny New Jerseyans the right to vote on this culture changing issue, and they would condone slipping it through in the still of the night. During his run for Governor, Chris Christie campaigned as a traditional values conservative and is on record as opposing gay marriage. State Senator Tom Kean Jr. - the leader of the Senate Republicans - is on record as supporting an amendment to the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Christie and Kean have each received the benefits of the support of New Jersey's traditional values conservatives. Both have been favored by groups like the New Jersey Family Policy Council. Now, they have fallen silent. We needn't have gay marriage in New Jersey. A strong, clear statement by Governor-elect Chris Christie and Senator Tom Kean Jr. will help these four Republican State Senators to think again. As Kean said in 2006, when the State Supreme Court first raised the issue of gay marriage, "The eyes of the country are on New Jersey." Please call Governor-Elect Christie and Senator Kean and ask them to implore these four Republicans to oppose a vote by the legislature on gay marriage and support putting the question on the ballot for all the voters of New Jersey to decide. Contact Governor-Elect Chris Christie c/o Senator Joe Kyrillos (Transition Team member) 1715 Highway 35, Suite 303, Middletown, NJ 07748 (732) 671-3206 SenKyrillos@NJleg.org Contact Governor-Elect Chris Christie c/o Senator Sandra Cunningham (Transition Team member) 1738 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City, NJ 07305 (201) 451-5100 SenCunningham@NJleg.org Contact Senator Tom Kean Jr. 425 North Ave. East, Suite C, Westfield, NJ 07090 (908) 232-3673 SenKean@NJleg.org Contact Senator Bill Baroni 3691A Nottingham Way, Hamilton Square, NJ 08690 (609) 631-9988 SenBaroni@NJleg.org Contact Senator Kip Bateman 36 East Main St., Somerville, NJ 08876 (908) 526-3600 SenBateman@NJleg.org Contact Senator Jennifer Beck 32 Monmouth St., 3rd Floor, Red Bank, NJ 07701 (732) 933-1591 SenBeck@NJleg.org Contact Senator Sean Kean 1955 Highway 34, Bldg. 2A, Wall Township, NJ 07719 (732) 974-0400 SenSKean@NJleg.org On to Victory, Steven Lonegan