Poll: Support for marriage up in NJ By Newscenter Staff (-, New Jersey) A new poll of registered voters in New Jersey finds there is a 10 point spread in favor of same-sex marriage. The survey, by Monmouth Ladies seeking casual sex Mishicot University for Gannett newspapers, found 50 percent of voters support marriage rights for and lesbian couples, while 40 percent said they were opposed. In addition, the poll found a similar result when it came to amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage 50 percent opposing an amendment and 41 percent in favor. The release of the poll comes two months after a state mandated review of the New Jersey’s two year old civil union law recommended the legislation be amended to allow for same-sex marriage. A is expected to be taken up by the legislature this year. In , the state Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples must have all the rights of marriage. The Court gave the New Jersey State Legislature days to act on the decision to same-sex couples the rights and benefits enjoyed by different-sex married couples, but left it up to the legislators to decide whether to it marriage or civil unions. The legislature opted for civil unions. But that, said civil rights groups, amounted to separate but equal. A commission established by the state to study same-sex civil unions in New Jersey agreed with that argument. The commission held public hearings last year at which the majority of the testimony came from people who were in civil unions and said they were still not being treated the way married couples are by government agencies, employers and others. For instance, the commission found that companies in the state that are self-insured and therefore are regulated by federal, rather than state, law refuse to provide health insurance to the partners of their employees. A to allow for same-sex marriage was filed in the last session of the New Jersey legislature, but gained little support in an election year from either House or Senate leaders. Garden State Equality believes this year it could have a strong of passage. Gov. Corzine has said he would sign a marriage if it were passed.