The gays in Maine want to get marriage back! They are going for another referendum on marriage equality.
Gay marriage supporters say many have changed their minds since state voters overturned a same-sex marriage law in 2009. They said Thursday they're filing paperwork with election officials to start the process of gathering 57,000 signatures to put the matter on the November 2012 ballot.Well, good luck Maine. We will be watching.
Matt McTighe from Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders says polls show 53 percent of Mainers now support gay marriage. In 2009, gay marriage was rejected by the same margin.
"We believe there's strong support for marriage in Maine. We believe that all families deserve the right to marry. The longer we wait, the longer we delay this right of loving and committed couples to marry," McTighe said Thursday.
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Hopefully they get it right this time.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be swell if several states began the march toward marriage equality and NOM had to spend all their hate dollars all at once and they went broke and Maggie and Brian could join the long line of the unemployed?
Just sayin'.
Good for Maine! Meanwhile in RI we've got the craptastic civil unions bill moving full speed.
ReplyDeleteI say craptastic because of the Corvese amendment. It basically allows religious institutions to discriminate without fear of reprisal, regardless of how tenuous the connection.
I can see a couple of high profile law suits evolving over this bill. Reason being, it CLEARLY sets up two classes of people and that is a violation of not only the RI Constitution but the U.S. Constitution too.