Maine GOP gubernatorial candidate Peter Mills, who is currently a state senator, told Pine Tree Politics he supports full marriage equality for same-sex couples and believes 30 years from now the issue will not even be up for debate.

Meanwhile Dede Scozzafava (pictured), a GOP congressional candidate in New York who supports marriage equality for same-sex couples, is running against a Democrat who opposes it, according to the Washington Blade. Scozzafava’s position has cheered LGBT Republicans while alarming some conservative political groups, the Blade reports:

Charles Moran, a Log Cabin spokesperson, said Scozzafava represents the views of New York’s 23rd congressional district because “she fiscally is fairly conservative, but … on the social issues she’s very much mainstream in what the district believes in and also what America believes in with marriage equality.”

Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, said his organization contacted New York Republican officials and asked them to remove Scozzafava as their nominee in the race.

“It is a slap in the face to the voters of this district,” he said. “This is a socially conservative district and we hope that the nomination will be removed and someone else will be put in her place because this is not a good move for the Republican Party by any stretch.”

Support for marriage equality is growing in some conservative circles, though most quickly among pundits and other unelected officials.  Scozzafava and Mills are among the first Republican candidates to adopt the position as part of a campaign.