The National Organization for Marriage’s blog has the news on this huge defeat for gay-marriage advocates. Following a stunning defeat in the New York legislature, which many observers said would make passage in New Jersey more difficult, the powers that be in the New Jersey state senate have called it quits:

Yesterday, faced with the prospects of defeat in the Senate, bill sponsors Loretta Weinberg and Ray Lesniak petitioned Senate President Richard Codey to postpone the vote. It has now been postponed indefinitely!

Of course, Loretta Weinberg refuses to admit her defeat, but the evidence is indisputable. Four Democrat senators have now publicly stated their opposition to same-sex marriage, with just one Republican defector — virtually assuring the bill’s demise.

And our internal vote count suggests it could have been a landslide — just like we saw in New York last week.

Same-sex marriage advocates couldn’t stomach another overwhelming and very public defeat. So rather than bring the bill to a vote, with little or no chance for victory and significant risk of being humiliated, they have put the vote off indefinitely.