New Jersey court sends gay marriage to legislature

TRENTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) New Jersey's Supreme Court today granted same-sex couples the same civil rights afforded by heterosexual marriage and ordered state lawmakers to decide within six months if they want to change the state's definition of marriage.

The nuanced 90-page ruling was neither a definitive victory nor a defeat for gay marriage, which has faced legal and political roadblocks in much of the United States and is legal only in Massachusetts.

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