By Brody Levesque (Bethesda, Maryland) Sept 5 | As efforts heat up to preserve the new marriage equality law in Maine, the leading organization, Protect Maine Equality.org, launched an aggressive television ad campaign supporting it on Thursday. The measure, which was signed into law by Governor John Baldacci in May, was to have taken effect on September 12. It is currently suspended pending the outcome of the referendum.
In an announcement on Wednesday by Maine's secretary of state, opponents of the law had garnered enough support in seeking to repeal the marriage equality law. According to the Bangor Daily News, Secretary of State, Matthew Dunlap, said that there were enough signatures to officially qualify for placing the referendum on the November ballot.
The referendum, known as Question 1, will appear on the November 3 ballot as follows:
“Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and religious groups to refuse to perform these marriages?”
Maine became the second state after Vermont to approve marriage equality through the legislature without first being ordered to do so by the court. It will now be the first state where residents vote on legislatively passed marriage equality.
Here are the two ads:
In an announcement on Wednesday by Maine's secretary of state, opponents of the law had garnered enough support in seeking to repeal the marriage equality law. According to the Bangor Daily News, Secretary of State, Matthew Dunlap, said that there were enough signatures to officially qualify for placing the referendum on the November ballot.
The referendum, known as Question 1, will appear on the November 3 ballot as follows:
“Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and religious groups to refuse to perform these marriages?”
Maine became the second state after Vermont to approve marriage equality through the legislature without first being ordered to do so by the court. It will now be the first state where residents vote on legislatively passed marriage equality.
Here are the two ads:
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