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DECEMBER 03, 2007

Marriage amendment close

UPDATE: John Stemberger, leader of the Florida4Marriage effort and the Florida Family Policy Council, called to correct the record and clarify that Verdugo's "self-serving" statement was "not accurate." Those signatures just reached Stemberger's office, he said, and it may be weeks before they're counted.

The Christian Family Coalition says that today it filed the remaining 3,300 petitions needed to bring an amendment to the state constitition to Florida voters next fall.

The group filed the petitions with Florida4Marriage, the sponsoring political committee, and they still must be verified by the state. Assuming the petitions are validated, the amendment limiting legal marriage in Florida to one man, one woman would be scheduled for the November 2008 ballot.

According to Florida4Marriage, the exact goal is 611,009 and "we are not yet finished until it is official in Tallahassee."

"In our system of government, the people of Florida, not unaccountable judges, should define marriage in our state," Anthony Verdugo, chairman of the Christian Family Coalition, said in a statement.

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