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Newark Mayor Booker Says Legislature, Not Voters Should Call Gay Marriage Debate
By Katie Colaneri, WBGO News
Newark. January 25, 2012
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is weighing in on the debate over same-sex marriage in New Jersey as democratic lawmakers push for legislation to legalize it.
Mayor Booker says he’s all for putting important state matters like taxes to voters. When it comes to legalizing same-sex marriage, he believes the legislature must decide.
“We should not be putting civil rights issues to a popular vote to be subject to the sentiments, the passions of the day.”
Booker is one of five New Jersey mayors, also including Hoboken’s Dawn Zimmer, who are members of a national coalition supporting marriage equality.
He says the current state of the laws has turned gays and lesbians into second-class citizens, and that the referendum Governor Christie wants could only serve to emphasize this disparity.
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