Posted on 01/03/2013 3:14:34 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The Illinois Senate could vote as early as tomorrow on a measure to sanction same-sex marriage in the state.
One former member of that body has already weighed in: President Barack Obama.
“Were the President still in the Illinois State Legislature, he would support this measure that would treat all Illinois couples equally," Obama spokesman Shin Inouye recently told the Chicago Sun-Times.
It's unusual for a sitting president to get involved in a state legislative matter (especially, you might argue, a president whose own views on the issue have been unclear until recently). Supporters say it's just another indication that the once-controversial issue is much less so now. They also point to the November elections, in which four states either legalized or declined to outlaw gay marriage.
“Public opinion has been moving so quickly on this,” said state Sen. Heather Steans, D-Chicago, one of the proponents. “The conversation we're having is really different in tone” than in past years.
Illinois in 2010 passed a law allowing “civil unions,” which gives same-sex couples the same general legal rights as married couples. A formal same-sex marriage law would be a largely symbolic addition to that, but one that both sides in the debate are taking seriously.
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The way he tries to involve himself in state matters reminds me of a creepy child molester who “just loves kids”.
Yep; the way he tries to involve himself in state matters reminds me of a creepy wannabe dictator. (Didn’t you hear; he “evolved” on the subject a year or so before he announced to everybody he’d evolved?) To LGTB, or is it LTGB, groups; he “announced” a year or so earlier.
When he was a State Legislator he just voted “present” now he wants to vote in Illinois.
Barrack “Bendover” Obama.
He’s a rabble rouser. A divider. Inserting himself in every emotionally charged debate so as to divide and conquer. He is the evil girl in any TV show.
IL GOP Chair Promotes Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=1138
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There are many things wrong with Illinois politics, but today our attention should turn to the feckless and destructive antics of the chair of the Illinois Republican Party: Pat Brady. On this the first working day of the New Year, the purported standard-bearer for conservatism in Illinois is busy calling Illinois Republican lawmakers, urging them to vote to destroy marriage. Yes, you heard that right. IL GOP Chair Pat Brady is trying to convince Republican state lawmakers that marriage has no intrinsic connection to gender, sexual complementarity, or procreative potential....
Fire his ass.
His followers are a bunch of simple minded morons with no knowledge of civics.
They complain that states shouldn’t do things they don’t like because “Obama won” then look at me like I’m the moron when I point out that he didn’t win a single legislative seat in a single state.
What does Obama have against Illinois? It looks like he is trying to destroy it to the point of Detroit.
Of course he supports gay marriage in Illinois...he plans to live there again some day.
Join Barrack in an act of sodomy.
Join Barrack in an act of sodomy.
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