New Jersey

Mountain Meadow’s mission is to empower all youth from LGBTQ and other non-traditional families. The Summer Camp program takes place in Southern New Jersey - about an hour from Philadelphia - from August 10 to 23. The two-week residential camp for up to 80 youth (ages 9-17) plus a staff of 40 has been the primary program of Mountain Meadow since 1981.

The educational video is titled That’s a Family! and it was produced specifically for elementary school students by Women’s Education Media as part of The Respect For All Project.

It's a documentary that helps kids understand the many different types of families - including foster parents, adopted families, gay and lesbian parents, divorced parents, single parents, grandparent-headed families, guardians, and multi-racial families. Religous beliefs are also highlighted in the film.

Pastor Salvatore Roggio, of Millville, New Jersey, was compelled to hang a sign outside his church that read, "Help for the Homosexual" promoting the week's sermon delivered by "ex-gay" Greg Quinlan.

"I do not believe that people are born gay," Pastor Salvatore Roggio said, speaking in front of the sign.

A New Jersey lesbian couple has filed a civil rights complaint against a Methodist church association that refused to allow them to use it's campgrounds for their civil union ceremony.

STORY UPDATE: State withdraws tax break for campgrounds.

As New Jersey marks the 6-month anniversary of it's civil unions law, a recent Zogby poll shows 63% of N.J. voters say they'd be fine with the legislature upgrading civil unions to marriage equality.

• 72% say legislators would be in no electoral danger if they enacted marriage equality
• 61% say they expect the state to enact marriage equality within a couple of years

A revealing and biting piece written by the CEO of Garden State Equality sheds light on civil union legislation in New Jersey - and how it effects companies like UPS.

CEO Steven Goldstein goes back to the planning stages of the bill in his NJ.com blog.

UPS announced it will offer health care benefits to all civil union partners of hourly employees in New Jersey who are covered under collectively bargained union plans. Management and administrative employees in the state already have such benefits.