Maryland gay marriage foes have signatures for referendum

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Maryland gay marriage foes have signatures for referendum

By Alice Popovici

Tue May 29, 2012 7:42pm EDT

(Reuters) - Opponents of same-sex marriage in Maryland announced on Tuesday they have submitted more than twice the number of signatures needed to put the state's new law allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry before voters in a referendum.

The Maryland Marriage Alliance, a coalition of groups working to preserve the traditional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, said it has collected more than 113,000 voter signatures.

That figure far exceeded the 56,000 signatures needed to bring the law to a referendum. A third of those had to be submitted by Thursday.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/29/us-usa-maryland-gaymarriage-idUSBRE84S1HA20120529

[Fearless]

1. Let's see how many of them stand up to scrutiny. n/t

[Orangepeel]

2. Unfortunately, that's no surprise

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The number of signatures needed is really low, especially since right wingers figured out how to streamline the petition process last year when they put Maryland's dream act on the ballot.

But fortunately, our side is pretty organized.
http://www.equalitymaryland.org/

I haven't seen the wording of what will be on the ballot. I think the vote will be worded so that the vote is whether or not to repeal The Civil Marriage Protection Act (that is, I don't think that opponents of the law get to word it any way they want, like, say, to protect traditional marriage).

I hope so, because we'll have a better chance of winning (in spite of what happened in California).