On Election Day, Arizona residents will once again be asked to add an amendment to their state constitution that would outlaw marriage between same-sex couples.

The New York Times published an article detailing the fight over the amendment, including a comment from Victory Endorsee Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. Simena, who is chairwoman of anti-amendment Arizona Together, claimed that the right’s allegations that marriage equality harms other peoples’ marriages is ridiculous.

“Their claim that we have to protect marriage from attack is ridiculous, because there’s no such attack,” she said. “It’s a fake threat.”

The NY Times reports:

Supporters of this year’s measure, Proposition 102, say a constitutional amendment is necessary to prevent “politicians or judges” from overturning the state law, an apparent reference to neighboring California. The State Legislature voted to place the measure on the ballot in June, shortly after same-sex couples gained the right to marry in California.

“The people of Arizona have their own way of doing things, but at the same time, we are also part of the United States,” said Kelly Molique, a spokeswoman for Yes for Marriage, the main backer of the measure. “So we see what’s going on in other areas.”

When Arizona voters turned down the 2006 ballot measure, they became first in the nation to do so. Until then, backers of such statewide constitutional bans had a 27-for-27 winning streak.

Since then, opponents of same-sex marriage have had further cause for concern: courts in California and Connecticut said laws in those states barring such unions were unconstitutional, bringing to three — along with Massachusetts — the number of states where same-sex couples can marry.

Backers of the Arizona measure have raised more than $7 million to promote it, with major financing coming from Focus on the Family Action, the conservative Colorado organization that is also backing a ballot measure in California that would reinstate that state’s ban on same-sex marriages.

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The opponents have raised less than a tenth of the money raised by supporters, a gap they say may have to do with the amount of national money pouring into the fight over the California measure, which is expected to be one of the most expensive ballot measure campaigns ever.