Go Maine! The state’s governor decided to sign the same-sex marriage bill! It goes into effect in September.

Baldacci said in a statement that while he has opposed gay marriage in the past, “I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.”

When empathetic people realize that this is a question of constitutional rights, of equality, they come around.

Maybe this will put pressure on New Hampshire’s governor to sign his state legislature’s bill, too.