NJ: Garden State Equality Cuts Off Democratic Party, Will Donate to Individual Candidates

Garden State Equality, New Jersey's largest gay rights advocate, announced Monday it would end donating to political parties. The new policy comes just weeks after the New Jersey Legislature overwhelmingly spurned a gay marriage bill. The group is one of the nation's largest to lobby lawmakers for gay rights and lists more than 65,000 active members.

While lawmaker's failure to approve gay nuptials was not listed as a reason for the new policy, the group did mention the loss in its statement.

“The only LGBT civil rights law New Jersey does not have is marriage equality,” the group said after listing several gay rights milestones. “After the state voted down a marriage bill earlier this year, Lambda Legal announced at a Garden State Equality news conference that our side is going back to court.”

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