The stage has been set for a political showdown. Today, the California secretary of state said an initiative barring gay marriage had enough signatures to qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot.

According to the Los Angeles Times, “the proposal would amend the state Constitution to define marriage as a union ‘between a man and a woman’ and undo last month’s historic California Supreme Court ruling, which found that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was unconstitutional.”

An organization of religious and conservative activists submitted 1.1 million signatures for the ballot measure. Random sampling by Secretary of State Debra Bowen found that enough legitimate signatures had been collected.

Many critics of same-sex marriage considered the high court’s ruling a rejection of past ballot measures against the practice, most recently Proposition 22 that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. It passed in 2000 with 61 percent of the vote.

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