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Video: First same-sex weddings in New Jersey as state legalizes gay marriage
Wedding bells rang for same-sex couples in New Jersey just after midnight on Monday (October 21) when gay marriage became legal in the state.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat who will be leaving office this month after his election to the U.S. Senate last week, opened City Hall at midnight to perform some of the state’s first gay marriages.
The marriages came after New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday (October 18) against a request by Republican Governor Chris Christie to freeze a lower court ruling in favour of gay marriage until the top court could hear the state’s appeal in January and issue a final decision.
Moments after the state’s highest court denied Christie’s request, New Jersey municipalities were able to begin officially accepting applications for marriage licenses from same-sex couples.
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