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Judge Lifts NJ's Same Sex Marriage Ban

New Jersey's Superior Court last week held that same sex couples may marry in the Garden State beginning on Oct. 21 because the state's ban on same sex marriages denies couples federal benefits. So reports Philly.com.

Noting a trend among government agencies to limit benefits to married couples, the court issued the opinion in Garden State Equality v. Paula Dow, a case in which six same sex couples alleged that New Jersey's civil union designation violates their civil rights. The decision made New Jersey's Superior Court the first court in the country to strike down a ban on same sex marriage based on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent rejection of the Defense of Marriage Act.

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