Looks like my home state of Maine is gearing up to get marriage equality the law of the land (again). From LGBT Nation:
More than 150 LGBT advocates gathered on the steps of the Lewiston, Maine, City Hall on Thursday to announce a campaign to put the issue of marriage equality back on the ballot in 2012, just three years after it was rejected by Maine voters.
The issue was intensely political when it dominated Maine news in 2009. A bill allowing same-sex marriage passed largely along party lines in the Democrat-controlled Senate and House that year and was signed into law by Democratic Gov. John Baldacci.A people’s veto effort was immediately launched, run by a coalition of evangelical Christian churches and the Catholic church in Maine. Outside support was provided to both sides and overall spending on the referendum question totaled $9.6 million.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Read more here.
