Mr. Dwyer is circulating two petitions - one for his own bill that would send a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the voters and another for a bill by Del. Ben Barnes, D-College Park, that would create civil marriages for same-sex couples.
His goal is to move the debate from the relative obscurity of the committee to the floor of the House...
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