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It appears certain that an anti gay marriage amendment will be on next November’s ballot. The group Florida4Marriage said today it has gathered more than the required 611 thousand signatures to get a place on the ballot. The group claims not to have paid to gather any of the signatures. Bill Bunkley of the Florida Baptist Convention says that is because of the strength of his organization.

“I want to remind everyone here that there are over one million Florida Baptists throughout the state of Florida and because this is unprecedented to have gathered 611,000 plus signatures, without people standing in post offices and shopping centers getting paid to do this, part of that in large part was through the efforts of Florida Baptists,” Bunkley said. “And so now we have a 60 percent threshold to look at in November of 2008. We’re excited about that challenge.”

Opponents of the amendment argue it will hurt seniors who live together. That argument help defeat a similar amendment in Arizona, the only state in which an anti gay marriage amendment has failed.