Assemblyman Ruben J. Ramos Jr. (D-Hudson) had the following publised on the Hoboken Patch :
“This past summer, Hoboken’s waterfront was illuminated by the rainbow-colored lights of the Empire State Building when New York passed the most important piece of civil rights legislation in decades — Marriage Equality. While we celebrated this important achievement, we were reminded that New Jersey is still a place where some loving couples aren’t afforded the same rights and privileges under the law as our friends inNew York…”