Harris Hints at Illinois Same Sex Marriage Vote Next Week

Illinois Observer ^ | October 31, 2013 | IO News Staff

[GIdget2004]

It seems likely that the Illinois House will be voting on same sex marriage legislation when lawmakers return to Springfield next week.

State Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago), the measure’s chief House sponsor, strongly hinted on Wednesday night that he plans to call the bill for a vote during the last week of the fall veto session which begins on Tuesday, November 5.

“I think my colleagues should be prepared next week to make history on marriage equality,” Harris told The Illinois Observer during his fall fundraiser in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood.

“I spent the day making calls on marriage,” Harris said. “I very happy.”

Another Democratic lawmaker contacted by The Illinois Observer echoed Harris.

“Greg says he’s calling the bill next week and that’s he got the votes,” said the legislator. “I don’t know who he has flipped.”

[Theodore R.]

I’m surprised IL was not the first state to hop onto this heresy.

[Dilbert San Diego]

A few more liberal states will follow, I’m sure.

Then, what about the conservative states? I’m sure Lambda Legal and the ACLU are going to sue them, saying that they don’t have the right to define marriage.

We live in a politically correct world now. We live in a liberal world, and on the subject of marriage, only judges and liberals are allowed to define marriage.

[bigbob]

I would pick nits only to argue that Illinois has a lot of red-state areas that are unable to overcome the dominance of the blue-state influence of Chicago. Since there are enough big city Democrats to control both Houses of the state legislature, crap like this continues to get rammed through.

We don’t really want to secede from Illinois but we sure wish Chicago would.

[Pollster1]

They might as well vote on whether unicorns are real in Illinois. The fact that their government pretends something exists doesn’t change whether it actually does exist.