Happy, But Not Satisfied -- from "Newsweek"

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Gay-rights activist Evan Wolfson discusses the political implications of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriages.



By Debra Rosenberg
Newsweek

Oct. 30, 2006 - Will last week’s New Jersey Supreme Court decision on gay marriage have an impact on next week’s election? The ruling opened the door to make the state the second in the nation—after Massachusetts—to allow gay marriage by finding that the legislature must offer same-sex couples some form of marriage or civil union.

Gay marriage was one of the hot-button issues in 2004, but Evan Wolfson, executive director of the gay-rights group Freedom to Marry and author of “Why Marriage Matters” (Simon & Schuster, 2004) doesn’t believe it’s likely to resonate at the polls on Nov. 7. He spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Debra Rosenberg about the court decision, the upcoming vote and the struggle over gay marriage.

Excerpts:

What do you make of the New Jersey decision?

I think it’s a very powerful decision that illustrates the difference between happy and satisfied. I’m happy to see a unanimous high court ruling that gay couples must be treated fairly. But I’m not satisfied because the high court opened the door to equality but didn’t finish the job [because it referred the decision to the legislature]. There’s only one way to provide equality and that is by equal treatment.

(see the rest of the article in: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15487562/site/newsweek/)