Maine residents begin battle over gay marriages
“There is clearly a lot of support for us winning marriage in Maine. There’s a lot of momentum, there’s a lot of enthusiasm. We’re really getting a lay of the land. We’d be very excited to go forward with a bill.”
Betsy Smith or Equality Maine, a gay-rights group in the northeast state which plans to submit over 33,000 signatures to the legislature in 2009 to ask for a bill to pass the allowance of gay marriages. It’s reported that anti-gay religious leaders are already gathering support for a bill designed to define marriage as solely between a man and a woman. (Morning Sentinel)
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