PORTLAND (AP) — The proposed wording of a ballot question asking Maine voters if they want to legalize samesex marriage is inaccurate and misleading, gay marriage supporters said Wednesday.

Maine’s secretary of state announced last week that the proposed wording for the November referendum reads, “Do you want to allow samesex couples to marry?”

The question should also include wording about how clergy, churches and other religious institutions won’t be required to perform or host same-sex marriages if Maine voters approve the measure, said Matt McTighe, campaign manager for Mainers United for Marriage, a coalition in support of the proposal.

The wording, he said, should reflect the title of the proposed law, which reads, “An Act To Allow Marriage Licenses for Same-Sex Couples and Protect Religious Freedom.”

“The one-part question proposed by the secretary of state falls short, is inaccurate and would create an opportunity for distortion and confusion by voters in November,” McTighe said at a news conference.

Opposition groups disagree.

Protect Marriage Maine, a political action committee that opposes the referendum, is pleased with the simplicity of the question, said Carroll Conley Jr., executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine evangelical organization and a member of the PAC.

Conley said he would prefer if the ballot question asked if Mainers favor “changing the existing law to redefine marriage,” but he said it’s misleading to include wording about religious exemptions.

Under current law, clergy and churches aren’t required to perform marriages for whatever reason, he said. The proposed law won’t protect town officials, florists, photographers, caterers and others who refuse to participate in a same-sex marriage, he said.

“Someone may say this protects religious rights and not realize how restrictive it is,” Conley said. “But it doesn’t refer to all the other ramifications. That’s why we think it’s best to not have it in there at all.”

The Maine Legislature legalized gay marriage in 2009, but the law was overturned in a popular vote later that year.

The question will again be decided by voters after supporters submitted enough signatures to force it back on the ballot. The public has until July 14 to comment on the proposed wording of the question.

The proposed law includes a religious exemption for clergy, churches and religious institutions: “The refusal to perform or host a marriage under this subsection cannot be the basis for a lawsuit or liability and does not affect the tax-exempt status of the church, religious denomination or other religious institution,” the act reads.