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First, the headlines!
NJ Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage
NJ Court Rejects Gay Marriage
New Jersey High Court Leaves Gay Marriage Rights to Legislature

Of these, Fox News is ironically closest to the truth (but even they get some major points wrong).

New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Albin wrote the following:

HELD: Denying committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts bears no substantial relationship to a legitimate governmental purpose. The Court holds that under the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes. The name to be given to the statutory scheme that provides full rights and benefits to same-sex couples, whether marriage or some other term, is a matter left to the democratic process.

So no, Fox, "gay marriage rights" have not been left to the legislature; the rights are exactly what the Court decided they must have.

The New Jersey legislature, and thence the New Jersey governor, have 180 days to get the bureaucratic details in order.

In the meantime, this ruling looks like New Jersey couples who can't wait (e.g., if they have children now who need married parents) can get married in Massachusetts and/or a civil union in Vermont, and the New Jersey judicial system "should" recognize this.