The Box Turtle Bulletin passed on a local TV station’s report of the National Organization for Marriage’s tiny rally in Augusta, Maine. It is the first stop on cross-country bus tour the organization hopes will help energize conservative voters to come out in full force in this November’s election. The tour will arrive at the state capitol in St Paul on Wednesday, July 28 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm, and will make subsequent stops at the Granite City Baptist Church in St Cloud on Thursday, July 29 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm, and in Rochester at an as-yet-undetermined location on Friday, July 30 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm.

The National Organization for Marriage, a group which helped local efforts to overturn Maine’s law, made Augusta its first stop on a 20-city tour, targeting areas where it feels traditional marriage is under attack. Brian Brown, the organization’s executive director, told his crowd of about 50 people that court cases in Massachusetts and in California affect the marriage issue across the country.