The Rainbow Minute

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Today's Rainbow Minute at 7.59, 12.29 and 4.49 is read by Sarah Prescott and focuses on Maryland's recent vote in favor of same-sex marriage…

On February 23, 2012, loud cheers and applause were heard from the crowded galleries in Maryland’s statehouse in Annapolis after the vote in favor of same-sex marriage was announced. The 25 to 22 vote occurred just around dinnertime on Thursday. Unlike New Jersey’s governor, Chris Christie, who vetoed that state’s new marriage law, Maryland’s governor Martin O’Malley vowed to sign it into law.

But there may be roadblocks ahead for Maryland same-sex couples wishing to marry.  Conservative and Catholic groups, along with ministers of some African American mega-churches in Prince George’s County, vowed to help repeal the marriage law through a ballet initiative on November 6, 2012.

That would require gathering 55,736 signatures, one third of them by May 31, and the rest by June 30th.