Gay Organizations Helping Fund Fight for Gay Marriage in Maine

Maine's same-sex marriage debate increasingly seems to be a coast-to-coast affair. Earlier this summer, the campaign seeking to repeal Maine's new same-sex marriage law said it had retained Schubert Flint Public Affairs, the high-power firm that ran the successful effort to ban gay marriage in California. Now it appears Sacramento, Calif.-based Schubert Flint may face some familiar foes. This past week, Equality California, the San Francisco-based group that fought to maintain gay marriage in that state, said it planned to support similar efforts in Maine. During a conference call in which Equality California officials talked about trying to reinstate gay marriage there in 2010, they also pushed support for their Maine counterparts. Full Story from the Kennebec Journal

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