There is no denying that litigation is an expensive proposition - and doubly expensive for the state when it loses civil rights cases because the tax payer has to pay for the prevailing party's attorney's fees. Proponents of "civil unions" over true marriage equality claim one is just as good as the other. But if that's the case, why fight the issue?
The answer is obvious: a legal acknowledgement that two people of the same sex can love each other with the same amount of commitment as members of the opposite the sex can is offensive to various types of bigots that the Republican party needs to get elected. Anti-gay bigots are a Republican special interest group. And money spent keeping gay people in a second class citizen status - whether symbolic or substantive - is money spent to keep this special interest happy.
You rarely hear it framed this way by our damn liberal media, but that's exactly what's happening here in New Jersey.
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