The New Jersey state Senate has dealt equal rights a blow with the rejection of same-sex marriage. With a 20-14 vote, NJ becomes another state where we were so close but now it becomes another setback.

Some are suggesting that we should shift the focus away from same-sex marriage due to recent losses and instead put our energy and resources into civil unions. Although I can understand the rationale of trying to get more states to sign on to the more moderate and less scary civil unions it wreaks of our past failures as a nation, separate but equal. Of course there was never anything equal about that policy. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

What do you think? Weigh in with your vote…