Gay Marriage Passed the Illinois Senate. Now It Goes to The House.

[mucifer]

Hopefully it will pass there. Governor Quinn has said he will sign it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-illinois-senate-approves-gay-marriage-20130214,0,5929022.story



We have civil unions here now. Hopefully marriage will be legal for LGBT soon.

[surrealAmerican]

1. k & r

Let's do this!

[PeaceNikki]

2. I just read that Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady announced his support for gay marriage

and that has caused a ruckus among the party. Fundies are gnashing their teeth claiming that they will primary any Republicans who support this.

Nationwide, the GOP needs to get the religious right to loosen their grip on the party.

[mucifer]

4. I think I typed what you typed at the same time

[nickinSTL]

7. The GOP chair can support it, but not my supposedly Dem. senator

Bill Haine, apparently more conservative than the GOP. Great.

Well, good news is, he's 100% in support of passing concealed carry

[mucifer]

3. I heard on the local news that there has been a lot of threats of right wing

money to primary the repubs if they vote for LGBT marriage. It really sucks. But, there is a lot of optimism about it passing.

[PeaceNikki]

5. I just read a great comment on a piece about the GOP chair..

http://blogs.suntimes.com/politics/2013/01/republican_party_chair_in_illinois_throws_full_support_behind_same-sex_marriage_in_illinois.html

On Wednesday, Pat Brady, chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, said he was putting his "full support" behind marriage equality legislation pending in Springfield.

"More and more Americans understand that if two people want to make a lifelong commitment to each other, government should not stand in their way," Brady said. "Giving gay and lesbian couples the freedom to get married honors the best conservative principles. It strengthens families and reinforces a key Republican value - that the law should treat all citizens equally."

"Importantly, the pending legislation would protect the freedom of religion," Brady added. "No church or religious organization would ever be required to perform a union with which it disagrees."

The comment was:

Kevin T. Keith | January 2, 2013 6:28 PM | Reply
As usual, "the best conservative principles" are simply liberal principles the conservatives were decades too late on.
It's a relief to see conservatives finally coming around on this issue (to position themselves politically - nobody believes they actually mean what they say). But make no mistake: this is yet another issue on which conservatives are simply abandoning their traditional backwardness and adopting the liberal position, then claiming it is conservative. From abolition onwards, including suffrage for blacks and for women, birth control, aid to the poor (EITC was a Nixon program), gay rights, and so many more, conservatives devoted themselves to decades, if not a century or more, of misery for those under their thumb, then caved completely when being on the wrong side of history became a political liability. Gay marriage is just another one (and the third or fourth such example just involving gays alone - even when they're right, conservatives manage to be wrong for decades before they finally join with liberals all the way).
This is a benefit to all who believe in equality, but mostly a benefit to Republicans who can finally put another one of their vile embarrassments to rest. (Those groups do not overlap.)

Well said, Keith T. Well said.

[joeybee12]

6. KNR

[Louisiana1976]

8. K&R!