Civil unions for same-sex couples
From Times Wire Reports
Hundreds of same-sex couples were granted the same legal rights, if not the title, as married couples as the state became the third to offer civil unions. The unions, which offer the legal benefits but not the title of marriage, were granted automatically to the hundreds of same-sex New Jersey couples who had been joined in civil unions or married in other states or nations.
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