New Jersey court sends gay marriage to legislature

TRENTON, New Jersey - New Jersey's Supreme Court on Wednesday granted same-sex couples the same civil rights accorded to 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.

- REUTERS