Same-Sex Marriage Hits Red Light in Blue Illinois

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What same-sex marriage advocates won in the Illinois Senate on Valentine’s Day 2013 was just reversed. After weeks and months of hard work to accomplish what should have been easy, gay Democrat sponsor Greg Harris could not muster the votes, while Democratic Speaker of the House, Michael Madigan, did not even call for a vote to establish same sex marriage in Illinois.


“Today a broad grassroots coalition of Illinois families of Faith of all creeds and colors took on all the Illinois political bosses from Washington to the Governor’s Mansion to Chicago’s City Hall who tried to pay back the homosexual community for their political support,” said Paul Caprio, Spokesman for the Coalition to Protect Children & Marriage.


Throughout the day, same-sex marriage proponents hammered the Speaker relentlessly, threatening to withhold support for his daughter, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a gubernatorial hopeful.


Equality Illinois and other groups brought in celebrities and generated thousands of phone calls. Governor Pat Quinn pushed hard, purportedly offering back room deals to members of the Black Caucus. But under the leadership of a former Democrat Senator -- the Reverend James Meeks --and Bishop Lance Davis, black legislators pushed back.


Representative Monique Davis, when asked by the Sun Times if same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue, said, “Have they ever hung from trees? Were they ever slaves for 500 years? Then I don’t think so.”


“I don’t think (the issues are) equal… simple as that,” she explained. “African-American people have the same right to be conservative on issues that everybody else has.”


With Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, Obama advisor David Axelrod, Republican State Chairman Pat Brady, Republican Senator Mark Kirk, the Chicago media, and hometown favorite President Barack Obama lobbying hard for the measure, it was a stunning defeat.

Illinois is the first state to stop the gay marriage momentum since North Carolina in 2012.



ROFL


In Obama's home state, gay marriage fails.
 
Sort of like the Southern Rebs bumping fists after shelling Ft. Sumter. "Boy, we sure showed them there Yankee's, didn't we! That'll be the last we see of them."

But any serious researcher will tell you that history has a flow. And now, as then, hatred and bigotry will eventually fail. Some will cry about it, even some that CLAIM to be for individual rights as long as it's just THEIR rights. But the rest of us will move on.
 
Major bitch slap PWNING for the libtardiots.

Even in a commie state like Illinois. They know that people don't want queers to marry. Sure they can have relationships. People don't oppose them being able to dispose of their possessions after AIDS takes their life. Hell, most employers now have queer benefits.

They just don't get to call it a marriage. Call it a Garriage. There is a compromise
 
In any movement like this one - whether it's civil rights for African Americans, the women's movement, or the gay rights movement - there are always a few steps forward, then a step back.

In terms of ILA's and Razorx' language - ewww do you eat with those typing fingers?
 
I don't know why straight men don't take this controversy as an opportunity to outlaw straight marriage - you know, in the name of equality.
 
They just don't get to call it a marriage. Call it a Garriage. There is a compromise

Seriously I have to start a "conservatives say the stupidest things" thread to compliment my 007 thread. What a mouthbreather you are.

sorry you don't get to decide how the word marriage is used. You don't own that word.

Even the dictionary has already betrayed you:

a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (2) : the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage <same-sex marriage>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marriage

lol.


 
Honeymoon over so soon?

Haha, no everything's still good. I just had to throw it out there for my single friends who are still fighting the good fight. :)

This is TMI but this trying for a baby thing is crazy. I've spent my entire life trying to get laid (please pardon my French). Now when the wife says "we need to do it on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday because that's when I'm mostly likely to get pregnant" I all of a sudden don't feel like having sex. I start getting performance anxiety or like some porn actor who's told to have sex on que. It's the damnedest thing.
 
Haha, no everything's still good. I just had to throw it out there for my single friends who are still fighting the good fight. :)

This is TMI but this trying for a baby thing is crazy. I've spent my entire life trying to get laid (please pardon my French). Now when the wife says "we need to do it on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday because that's when I'm mostly likely to get pregnant" I all of a sudden don't feel like having sex. I start getting performance anxiety or like some porn actor who's told to have sex on que. It's the damnedest thing.

LOL

I didn't know you were trying - good luck, I can't wait to hear you are expecting!
 
Seriously I have to start a "conservatives say the stupidest things" thread to compliment my 007 thread. What a mouthbreather you are.

sorry you don't get to decide how the word marriage is used. You don't own that word.

Even the dictionary has already betrayed you:

a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (2) : the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage <same-sex marriage>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marriage

lol.



Sure, I could start a "JPP mods say the stupidest things", but I don't think Damo has enough bandwidth.

I see months of gobbling goo has had its effect on you. Carry on shitbag
 
Haha, no everything's still good. I just had to throw it out there for my single friends who are still fighting the good fight. :)

This is TMI but this trying for a baby thing is crazy. I've spent my entire life trying to get laid (please pardon my French). Now when the wife says "we need to do it on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday because that's when I'm mostly likely to get pregnant" I all of a sudden don't feel like having sex. I start getting performance anxiety or like some porn actor who's told to have sex on que. It's the damnedest thing.

Did you really say "pardon the french" over saying getting laid? Really? I could see if you said "getting some pussy" or "hammering the ole bearded clam", but getting laid? Have we really gotten that PC? Holy fucksticks batman
 
Seriously I have to start a "conservatives say the stupidest things" thread to compliment my 007 thread. What a mouthbreather you are.

sorry you don't get to decide how the word marriage is used. You don't own that word.

Even the dictionary has already betrayed you:

a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (2) : the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage <same-sex marriage>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marriage

lol.



BTW dipshit I didn't define it, thousands of years of man and woman relations have. Just because you can't find a woman doesn't mean you get to redefine things to suit your deviant lifestyle.
 
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