N.D. MAY VOTE ON MARRIAGE AMENDMENT: From the Associated Press

Supporters of a North Dakota constitutional amendment to limit marriage to heterosexual couples say they have collected more than enough petition signatures for their campaign to put the issue to a November vote.

Only 25,688 signatures are needed to put the amendment on the statewide ballot this fall, but the North Dakota Family Alliance's Web site, which posts updated signature totals daily, said the petition had 38,457 signatures as of

The petition may have more than 40,000 names by the time it is submitted to Secretary of State Al Jaeger's office on Aug. 3, said Christina Kindel, director of the alliance. ...

The amendment says: "Marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman. No other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage, or given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect.''

It is intended to block North Dakota recognition of same-sex marriages. North Dakota law already bars state recognition of any same-sex marriage performed outside the state, and opponents of the amendment say that makes the amendment unnecessary.

Similar items with be on ballots this summer and fall in Oregon, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana and Utah.

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