A landmark election last week in Nova Scotia, Maine’s Northeastern neighbor, has sidelined the two historically-dominant political parties and brought a democratic-socialist government to power, a first in the history of Eastern Canada.

In an email sent Thursday, The Maine Marriage Initiative, a group or religious and conservative political organizations led by the Portland Catholic Diocese, announced that supporters should be prepared to begin gathering signatures soon to enact a "people's veto" of Maine's equal marriage legislation.

The email stressed the importance of gathering the signatures in time to make the November ballot.