Baltimore, Md., Jun 5, 2012 / 12:25 pm
Marriage supporters in Maryland have announced they gathered well over 100,000 signatures in a marriage petition drive, most likely securing a referendum on the state’s new “gay marriage” law.
Derek McCoy, executive director of the Maryland Marriage Alliance, explained at a May 29 press conference that “every single day we have been getting more and more momentum.”
In what he described as a “momentous” occasion, the alliance submitted more than twice the necessary signatures to place a new state law legalizing “gay marriage” before the people in a referendum.
The Maryland Marriage Alliance joined with several other pro-marriage and pro-family groups to gather petitions to put the Civil Marriage Protection Act on the ballot in November.