Same-Sex Marriage Issues

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006 file photograph, Mark Lewis, right, and his partner, Dennis Winslow, along with Diane Marini, seated second from left, whose partner Marilyn Maneely died before the ruling, listen in Newark, N.J., to a lawyer describe a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage in the state. Six couples plus the surviving partner of the seventh, who unsuccessfully sued New Jersey four years ago for the right to marry returned to court Thursday, March 18, 2010, claiming the state has not fulfilled a court order to treat them the same as married heterosexual couples. Mark Lewis said that when he and Winslow entered into a civil union, it didn't feel like they were married. He said that's because it seemed like a bureaucratic formality.