The Star-Ledger editorial:

N.J.’s gay marriage vote: Three spineless senators abstain

Picking on NJ state senators Steve Sweeney, Paul Sarlo and James Beach for abstaining actually misses the main point. The whole lame duck session idea is hatched by spineless politicians to allow them to ram through unpopular bills and put them into law before a new legislature and governor is seated.

It’s a disgracefull way to make law, and it should be abolished. Instead liberals are using these last few days to try to rush through gay marriage, medical marijuana and in-state tuition at state colleges for illegal aliens. That’s spineless, that’s what cowards do, try to act when they hope nobody is looking and they won’t be held accountable.

The true spineless ones are senate president Senator Dick Codey, who could have put this up for a vote anytime in the past two years, and NJ governor Jon Corzine who said he did not want gay marriage debated while he was running for re-election. Oh, and put the spineless tag on assembly leader Joe Roberts, who pulled the gay marriage bill off the floor because he wanted the senate to go first.

If this is such a great idea, it should have been brought up for a vote earlier in the year. It’s not like they were busy doing anything else, like trying to reign in spending or cut property taxes.

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