Via DCist. Maryland's Attorney General Douglas Gansler is in full support of gay marriage, making his case during a state senate judicial committee hearing.The committee hearing was to debate proposed legislation that would grant marriage and all marriage rights to gay couples in the state.

"This bill is fundamentally about equality," Gansler told the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. "It would be wrong for me to have this job knowing there's something so wrong in our society and just ignore it." He said qualms about same-sex unions seem to be limited to older people: "For the younger generation, this is a non-issue."

Predictably, the Family Research Council who also testified at the hearing, said in an email to its subscribers, "If the sponsors think that reserving the definition of the word 'marriage' to churches and religious institutions will somehow make government subsidies for homosexual relationships more palatable, they should think again."

It's interesting that the gay marriage controversy has pretty much been left behind since 2004. Now, some states like Maryland are taking lessons from anti-gay groups and pushing legislation in the states.