Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times
In Olympia, Wash., Joseph Backholm delivered petitions on Wednesday seeking a voter repeal of a new state law allowing same-sex marriages.
Evenly matched ballot fights over same-sex marriage have been about as rare in American politics as transits of Venus. Opponents have won by a knockout in state after state, with voters consistently preferring to define matrimony as a compact only for heterosexuals.
In Olympia, Wash., Joseph Backholm delivered petitions on Wednesday seeking a voter repeal of a new state law allowing same-sex marriages.
But as a consortium of groups opposed to Washington State’s four-month-old gender-neutral marriage law filed their petitions here in the capital on Wednesday — the first salvo in a battle to repeal the statute at the ballot box in November — independent polls suggest that the playing field, at least here, may be levelling.
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