Title: Baldacci explains support for same sex marriage

" Yes this does come out in favor of supporting and eat being gay marriage in -- they're going to -- and it a couple of deciding factors and one of them may be -- senator John all God's name out there. Coming wrestled with this issue could you talk about added and go. I ended up supporting a lot."

" I itself that it the issue was that as civil unions should be okay. Marriage should be for the church. And I felt that that was the way -- should mean. But I keep an open mind to the debate discussion and when I found out in what I heard where there were -- inequities in terms of Maine statute because. -- civil marriage is defined in 400 different sections. And by making civil unions had never -- civil marriage -- that would have been inequality in our constitution to allow for that. And so I've come to evolve on the issue. -- being opposed to it to recognizing that the constitution says you must recognize that and and I think that there are families and individuals and our state. That came forward and showed a lot of courage to tell their personal stories which is -- usual remained that there there's already been in public. And you felt like okay it's going on in Maine it's not going on somewhere else -- we get -- every other so those two factors really led me to believe that this is the right thing to do."

" It you can't believe that separate in this case Clinton was -- And that -- was not equal in civil unions didn't equal civil marriage. And it protects the church. And that there's a rigid boundary between church -- in the churches -- free to do what the church would like to do. This is only pertaining to the stayed in his state statutes and as we declared benefits from marriage. For certain individuals we do it for all individuals."

" Governor you learn it better and have any political campaigns of Latin I this year political instinct what is your -- this point it's 5050 right now."

" I think that you're probably gonna see it go back and forth depending upon the cities reporting and the rural areas reporting. Going back and forth but I think it's the exit polls are any indication. This is going to be on the grassroots organization. And I think that's going to be something that's gonna be important. So the great organization here but you know there's still a lot of votes to become."

" Governor thank you very --"