Thursday, December 21, 2006

Would they upgrade if recommended?

Reading an article about the signing into law of the civil union bill in New Jersey today by the Governor, I found this interesting tidbit:
The bill creates a commission that will regularly review the law and recommend possible changes.
A similar commission is something that, to my knowledge, doesn't exist neither in Vermont nor in Connecticut, the only other two states were civil unions are legally performed, nor anywhere else were gays have some legal recognition, like in California (and apparently, judging by the map, Maine, which was a surprise to me).

It will be interesting to see what the findings of this commission are and what their recommendations will be.

And if the commission finds that there's no reason not to change the name of civil unions to "marriage," will the politicians have the courage to follow its recommendations?

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