Same-sex marriage legislation is coming back to Annapolis this session and, with Gov. Martin O’Malley promising to support the bill this time around, advocates are gearing up for a rematch. Yesterday they released a video featuring Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake adding her support.

“Couples regardless of sexual orientation deserve the same legal protection. It’s only fair. It’s only right,” Rawlings-Blake says in the video released by Marylanders for Marriage Equality.

The other side is ramping up, too. A coalition of Maryland religious leaders last month announced they would oppose the bill, joining the two big opponents from last year, the Maryland Catholic Conference and the National Organization for Marriage.

During the last legislative session, a same-sex marriage bill passed the Senate, but was defeated in the House of Delegates.