Equality Advocates Make Push Before Corzine Leaves

Eva Sipos’ worries her last chance to get married will disappear in about two months. It will disappear, she fears, the day Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine leaves office and makes way for Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie.

Corzine has promised to sign gay marriage legislation if it makes its way through the Democratic-controlled Legislature. He leaves office Jan. 19.

Christie has promised to veto such a bill that arrives on his desk.

“We’re doomed,” Sipos of Asbury Park said with a groan. “It’s frightening to me how we’re about to go backward.”

Not if gay-marriage advocates get their way. Across the state, they are pushing to get a marriage equality bill through the state Senate and Assembly and onto the governor’s desk while the person sitting at that desk still is Corzine.

“There’s a new urgency since Christie was elected” Tuesday, said Steven Goldstein, chairman of the gay-rights organization Garden State Equality, which held 11 meetings across the state in the last couple of days.

“Chris Christie is not governor until January!” Goldstein declared at one of those meetings, held Thursday night in Asbury Park. “You’ve got to make this battle your lives over the next six to ten weeks!”

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