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Contents:

• JUDGE: GAY UPL ILLOIS UNTY N MARRY NOW WHOUT WAG FOR NEW LAW
• LAWMAKERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS
• MARRY YOU MT!: GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS
• ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE BILL PASS AS STATE POISED TO BEE 15TH TO LEGALIZE SAME SEX MARRIAGE
• WHE HOE MARKS LGBT PRI MONTH ON EVE OF LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS
• ILLOIS: BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE LIFTED COOK COUNTY
• PNEERS IN ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE LAWSU READY FOR WEDDG BELLS AFTER 50 YEARS OF WAG
• RIGHTS OF LBIANS, GAYS, BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS
• WILL ILL. LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS?
• JUDGE: GAY UPL ILLOIS UNTY N MARRY NOW WHOUT WAG FOR NEW LAW
• LAWMAKERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS
• ILLOIS: BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE LIFTED COOK COUNTY
• WHE HOE MARKS LGBT PRI MONTH ON EVE OF LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS

JUDGE: GAY UPL ILLOIS UNTY N MARRY NOW WHOUT WAG FOR NEW LAW

Judge says gay upl "have already suffered" om no right to marry.

Same-sex upl Chigo and surroundg Cook County n marry immediately and won’t have to wa until June 1 for a state law legalizg gay marriage to take effect, a feral judge led Friday. “There is no reason to lay further when no opposn has been prented to this Court and mted gay and lbian upl have already suffered om the nial of their fundamental right to marry, ” U.

LAWMAKERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS

Last month, the gay rights group Lambda Legal and the ACLU filed a class-actn lawsu Illois on behalf of same-sex upl who wanted to immediately obta marriage licens Cook County. Dwight Kay (R-112) also troduced a Hoe Jot Rolutn Constutnal Amendment, HJRCA 6, that lled for a siar amendment banng gay marriage.

MARRY YOU MT!: GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS

2 The Illois Observer, "Conservative Democrats Seek to Ban Illois Gay Marriage, " Febary 15, 2013. Lawmakers approved gay marriage Tuday a historic vote that saw supporters overe cultural, racial and geographic divis and put Illois le wh a growg number of stat that have extend the right to wed to same-sex more than a year of tense lobbyg by both sis, gay lawmakers ma emotnal pleas to lleagu to give their fai equal rights even as opponents argued that dog so would unravel the foundatn of society.

Rolvg the gay marriage qutn also allows state lears to get a divisive issue off their plat before next year's big statewi electn, even as long-standg fancial issu headled by the state's $100 billn public worker pensn shortfall rema unrolved. Print Barack Obama noted his relatively recent nversn last year to supporter of gay marriage.

ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE BILL PASS AS STATE POISED TO BEE 15TH TO LEGALIZE SAME SEX MARRIAGE

"Michelle and I are overjoyed for all the mted upl Illois whose love will now be as legal as ours — and for their iends and fay who have long wanted nothg more than to see their loved on treated fairly and equally unr the law, " Obama said a vote Tuday pped a year which prospects for gay marriage often were dim. Supreme Court's landmark lg that stck down the fn of marriage as between a man and a woman for the purpose of receivg feral hailed as a major victory, the move created a suatn which gay upl livg stat that regnize same-sex marriage have more rights than their unterparts stat that haven't legalized gay marriage. The two-class system was a clear narrative that advot uld e when lobbyg lawmakers who were on the fence, ntendg jt didn't make sense for gay upl Illois to be nied accs to benefs that were available to upl livg jt across the borr Iowa.

WHE HOE MARKS LGBT PRI MONTH ON EVE OF LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS

Advot soon received addnal help om Pope Francis, who warned that the Catholic Church uld lose s way by focg too much on social stanc, cludg opposn to homosexualy.

"If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?

ILLOIS: BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE LIFTED COOK COUNTY

" Francis said ments sparked a wave of soul-searchg by several Catholic lawmakers who had battled to rencile their relig beliefs wh their sworn duty to reprent their nstuents who were creasgly supportive of gay rights even as Cardal Francis Gee remaed opposed. "For those that jt happen to be gay — livg a very harmon, productive relatnship but illegal — who am I to judge that they should be illegal?

PNEERS IN ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE LAWSU READY FOR WEDDG BELLS AFTER 50 YEARS OF WAG

Madigan had e unr fire om some gay rights groups who argued that he wasn't dog enough to build support the chamber he ntrols, but advot say he was cril roundg up the fal need vot the last several, Madigan acknowledged that he helped persua "a signifint number of people" to vote for the legislatn.

"It was over five, " Madigan said, addg that was not over addn, Ain-Amerin lawmakers who had been divid on the issue provid some key vot favor, and three Hoe Republins me speaker gave much cred to Harris, the bill's sponsor, sayg he was steadfast the face of "unwarranted cricism" om some the gay muny who were not happy wh the way Harris was handlg the bill. The legislatn would not require relig anizatns to wed gay upl, and church officials would not be forced to allow gay upl seekg to marry to e their opponents say the bill don't go far enough to protect relig rights. "My nvictn happens to be that this (gay marriage) is wrong, but my nvictn is that Scripture is right.

RIGHTS OF LBIANS, GAYS, BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS

"J loved everyone, " Dunk Majory Lear Barbara Flynn Currie likened the nial of gay marriage to laws agast terracial marriage s Rep. "Homosexualy has nothg to do wh race, " Flowers said.

Sara Feigenholtz, D-Chigo, said the issue mattered very much to the fai that would be impacted, readg a letter om a 10-year-old girl beg raised by a gay uple who asked, "Will you let my two dads be married?

WILL ILL. LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS?

You had Ain-Amerins, you had Latos, you had whe, gay and straight. Greg Harris, left, is ngratulated by lawmakers as gay marriage legislatn pass on the Hoe floor durg the veto ssn on Tuday. Kelly Cassidy, who’s gay, put the marriage bate Illois the ntext of her personal life, talkg about her three children and s implitns for them: “Josh, Daniel, and Ethan are watchg today.

” Gay marriage advot often say their children live wh the shame and stigma of unmarried parents, prumably while their schoolmat—also two-parent hoeholds, this scenar—are dropped off by married parents. But they do speak to the ep social nservatism which gay marriage wrapped. I prefer the term “gay marriage” to “marriage equaly, ” bee the latter occlus the fact that the stutn many gays and lbians (but by no means the majory of them) clamor for is fact embedd a long history of sexism, misogyny, and racism, which f people and particularly women and children as objects of posssn.

JUDGE: GAY UPL ILLOIS UNTY N MARRY NOW WHOUT WAG FOR NEW LAW

We should nsir the enomic ramifitns of centivizg marriage for anyone, gay or straight, by way of refg benefs (like health re and immigratn stat) to those who won’t marry (nsir that not marryg is, for many, a polil choice).

LAWMAKERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS

And we need to foreground the enomic unrsi of gay marriage, stead of focg on s social nventns.

For s supporters, the nversatn about gay marriage reli upon emotnal and affective pots about legislatg love and ignor the fact that marriage acc and disburs enomic benefs, and that the abily to ga those pends on your class stat. Wdsor was chosen as the platiff that se bee she uld be imaged as a gay everywoman, a ltle old lady bbg flt ston for warmth a ld, dank New York apartment, wakg up one day to the shockg news that she would have to pay more than $600, 000 state and feral tate tax followg the ath of her spoe. Will the abily to marry actually provi average gays and lbians var kds of benefs?

ILLOIS: BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE LIFTED COOK COUNTY

Tuday and the state senate ncurred a ltle more than an hour later votg 32-29 favor of Pat Qun has prevly said he would sign the bill to Pat Qun, who has long supported legalizg gay marriage the state, was planted Sprgfield awag the vote. A historic vote Tuday the Illois Hoe posned that state to bee the largt the heartland to legalize gay marriage, followg months of arduo lobbyg efforts by both sis Print Barack Obama's home state.

"Polls show support for gay marriage has surged sce 1996, when Gallup found that 27 percent of Amerins backed . Now Gallup fds the majory support givg gay and lbian upl the right to marry.

WHE HOE MARKS LGBT PRI MONTH ON EVE OF LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS

Rybak even went to Chigo to enurage gay upl to hold their nuptials his cy if they were tired of wag for Illois lawmakers to act.

Although Illois once appeared poised to bee the first Midwtern state to approve gay marriage the Legislature, Mnota did sooner and started holdg s first same-sex weddgs over the summer. Iowa allows gay marriag too bee of a urt lg, not a legislative issue ed ternal nflict among Illois Republins as the party works to balance efforts to appeal more to younger voters, mori and women wh the more socially nservative posns of some party months, the lears of several black mega-church lobbied the districts of black Hoe members wh an aggrsive roboll mpaign agast gay marriage, placg an unfortable spotlight on the mostly Democratic black uc.

Relatedchigomarriage equalyobama gay marriageGay Marriageillois-marriage-equalyBefore You GoGay Marriage In The Uned Stat. Greg Harris, a primary sponsor of the bill who is openly gay, appld activists and advot who lobbied for the legislatn. Many of those state bans also face legal challeng, wh nearly 30 lawsus filed across the untry after two Supreme Court cisns the summer that favored gay marriage rights.