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Mar 06, 2007
Quickie Link: Phillipsburg mayor won't perform marriages, civil unions
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By vanrozenheim
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(PHILLIPSBURG, USA) - The mayor of this Warren County community [in New Jersey] performed one civil union ceremony for a same-sex couple. He said he will do no more. Mayor Harry Wyant said he is giving up performing marriages and civil unions as of Saturday. Steven Goldstein, chairman of Garden State Equality, a gay rights advocacy organization, told the newspaper that his group estimates 30 of New Jersey's 566 mayors have opted out of marriages and civil unions to date.
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