Tag Archives: Group: New Jersey Family Policy Council

“Mr. Costello disingenuously casts the arguments for upholding marriage as ‘subjective religious concepts.’”

OneNewsNow: “Because of a tight budget, New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie has taken action on state spending for abortion facilities by eliminating their funding. … Democrats are introducing legislation to reinstate those eliminated funds, but the NJFPC president does not believe that will settle well with many voters.”

Len Deo, founder and president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, writing in the Times of Trenton: “Advocates for same-sex marriage — having failed to convince the people’s elected representatives and having dismissed out of hand the right of the people to decide the issue at the ballot box — now say they will take their cause back to the courts. Why? Because, they say, the people are not to be trusted. Indeed, some of the senators who held the minority view on same-sex marriage, in rejecting calls for a ballot referendum, actually said the issue absolutely cannot be left to ‘the people.’”

NorthJersey.com: “Len Deo, founder and president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, suggested that the bill would fail despite shepherding by two of the state’s most prominent Democrats.”

NJ.com: “Both sides — those who say they want to ‘protect marriage’ as it is, and those who call for ‘marriage equality’ — are recruiting and mobilizing volunteers to pressure lawmakers. A bill that would allow gay marriage is expected to be debated in Trenton during the lame-duck period between the Nov. 3 election and start of a new legislative session in January . . . ” Len Deo of the New Jersey Family Policy Council is quoted.

Boston.com (AP): “Both sides — those who say they want to ‘protect marriage’ as it is, and those who call for ‘marriage equality’ — are recruiting and mobilizing volunteers to pressure lawmakers. A bill that would allow gay marriage is expected to be debated in Trenton during the lame-duck period between the Nov. 3 election and start of a new legislative session in January.”

Devon Williams reports on Citizen Link: "He caters to homosexual activists but wants to avoid angering the majority of his state. Gov. Jon Corzine wants to give New Jersey homosexuals the right to ‘marry,’ but he has said he will …