In a one-hour session that included brief remarks to gay journalists as well as answers to questions they posed, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine made clear that he sees full marriage equality for same-sex couples as inevitable in the Garden State, but also believes that, from a strategic political perspective, achieving that milestone is best left to a time after the 2008 presidential election.
“I think we’re in the process of evolution,” he said at the September 9 event. “I don’t know whether it’s three years or five years, but in some time frame in the not so distant future I suspect that New Jersey will embrace the moniker of gay marriage or same-sex marriage.”
The issue was the key focus of Corzine’s informal gathering with roughly two-dozen members of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
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