Senate sends gay marriage question to Maine voters

[brooklynite]

Source: New England Cable News

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine voters will get their second chance since 2009 to decide whether the state should recognize marriage between same-sex couples.

The Senate on Wednesday went along with the House and voted to kill the citizen-initiated bill, sending it to voters this November.

In 2009, Maine voters repealed a legislatively passed gay marriage law 53 percent to 47 percent.

The latest effort to force a referendum comes after gay rights activists say many Mainers have changed their minds about the issue and are now willing to accept same-sex marriages.

Read more: http://www.necn.com/03/14/12/Senate-sends-gay-marriage-question-to-Ma/landing_politics.html?&apID=bad8a75a89d74d93893d0e55014b935d

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As Maine goes...

[SWTORFanatic]

1. Conservatives must know this is just another move in stalling the inevitable.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. What is with the game of pong?

Legislature sends it to a vote, voters send it to the Legislature, where Legislature sends it back to a vote.

Is this going to happen every 2-4 years depending on who is in power and/or who is running with down ticket draw (thinking Snowe here)?

Forgetting the insanity of "voting" for civil rights for a moment, who out there in Maine finally gets to make the call?

[SWTORFanatic]

3. Like I said it's just a stalling move.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. At some point, someone needs to put on the collective big boy panties

and take responsibility for this legislation. If not, it is just going to get passed back and forth, no?