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AP: SSM simmers as an issue

 

Maggie and NOM-RI are featured in this AP story:

Maggie Gallagher, chairwoman of National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage, said her group is working to increase that number by adding Indiana, Wyoming and possibly North Carolina, the only state in the South that does not have such an amendment. In Wyoming, the proposed amendment is heading to the full House after clearing a committee on Tuesday. It has already passed the Senate.

Gallagher said the group hopes it can block legislative efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland and Rhode Island, as well as in New York, where a similar measure could emerge this year. She said that she doesn't believe there are enough votes in New York to pass potential legislation, and that she's especially hopeful in Maryland, which has a voter referendum process similar to the one in Maine. Voters in that state repealed same-sex marriage in 2009 after legislators approved it.

If the bill is approved, Gallagher said, "the people of Maryland will, like the people of Maine, reverse their legislators' decision."

...The Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Marriage has aired TV and radio ads targeting Chafee...

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