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Breaking: Maine Gay Marriage Issue Officially On The Ballot

Posted by: Lez Get Real on September 2, 2009.

9/2/09-by Lez Get Real stafffrown
Maine election officials have announced that anti- gay marriage supporters have reached the threshold of petitions necessary to put the state law on the November ballot.

Maines marriage equality law, passed earlier this year by the Maine House and Senate was scheduled to go into effect this month, but it was put on hold while the secretary of state’s office verified the number of petitions.

With the signatures validated, Gov. John Baldacci on Wednesday signed a formal proclamation putting the matter to a statewide vote on Nov. 3.

Anti-marriage equality proponents needed the signatures of at least 55,087 registered voters for the so-called People’s Veto, and they turned in nearly 100,000 signatures. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap says officials stopped counting once they found that more than 60,000 of the submitted signatures were valid.

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6 Responses to Breaking: Maine Gay Marriage Issue Officially On The Ballot

  1. fred Reply

    September 3, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    And let’s hope the voters of Maine do the right thing, i.e., vote for traditional one man/one woman marriage.

    • fern

      September 3, 2009 at 4:36 pm

      They’ll do the rite thing all rite and if tradition to you is what your father or grandad said you’ve got another thing coming, they’ re past tense honey, who said ‘the times they are a-changing’.
      Just think what was there before tradition? better what was there before God?
      Men, women, F… L…. it doesn’t matter if roles were reversed I still might head butt you Fred! in the traditional way you with a broken nose.

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