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Article: New Jersey grants gay couples some rights with civil unions law.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
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- December 21, 2006
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Byline: Troy Graham
PHILADELPHIA _ After a long, congratulatory ceremony at the Trenton War Memorial Thursday, Gov. Jon Corzine signed a bill granting civil unions to same-sex couples.
New Jersey became just the fifth state to extend some rights of marriage to gay couples, but many of the speakers said the law was just a stop on the way to full gay marriage _ possibly in the next two years.
"That is something that needs to be our goal," Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts, D-Camden, said. "We need to commit ourselves to achieving that as soon as possible."
The civil-unions law will go into effect in 60 days. Among the rights that gay ...