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:Eric Ethington (Author) | March 2, 2011
Illinois – A legal challenge against adoption agencies which refuse to foster children with gay parents may be coming soon, and the state is now researching the legal precedents for religious organizations which run adoption and foster care agencies who enforce the ban but receive government funding. Several other states have already changed policies to refuse government funding towards any [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 31, 2011
Illinois – Governor Pat Quinn signed civil unions for same sex couples into law this afternoon, saying “This legislation represents a giant step toward equality.” Illinois is now one of 5 states (plus DC) which grants all or most marriage benefits to gay couples. Video below! The law will go into effect June 1st of [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 16, 2010
Chicago, Illinois – Rahm Emanuel just released a statement saying that he supports the right of LGBT people to get married. Um…. since when? Anyone else remember what he was like working with Clinton? Well.. now he’s running for Mayor of Chicago of course! You can’t keep a good politician down! I’m loyal to President [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 3, 2010
Illinois – Governor Pat Quinn has announced that he is postponing signing the newly legislatively-passed civil unions bill until January. Meanwhile Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says that Civil Unions aren’t enough, he wants full marriage equality. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is on his way out of office but before he leaves, he had this to [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 1, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: The Illinois State Senate has just passed a Civil Unions bill by a vote of 32-24 and 1 abstention! The bill now moves on to Governor Pat Quinn who has promised to sign it into law. Congratulations Illinois! One step closer to full equality! Although Civil Unions do not provide all the same [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 30, 2010
Moments ago, the Illinois State House passed a law legalizing civil unions for same sex couples by a vote of 61-52. Congratulations and well done! The bill now moves on to the Senate. Openly gay Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago), who co-sponsored SB 1716, started his opening statement at 5:17 p.m on Tuesday. “Once in every [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 30, 2010
Springfield, IL – The State Legislature is expected to vote on a civil unions bill today around noon! Governor Pat Quinn promised weeks ago that if the bill got to his desk, he would sign it before the new year. According to several groups though.. it’s going to be a close vote. Fingers crossed fingers crossed! [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 11, 2010
Chicago, Ill – With the election of pro-lgbt Governor Pat Quinn, the odds are looking substantially good for a civil unions law to be passed before the end of December. Governor Quinn is calling for the law to be passed immediately, and many are predicting that a bill will be presented to the legislature as [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 1, 2010
Chicago – Illinois Republican Representative Mark Kirk is the newest homophobe to be outed! As a result of his “Nay” on the DADT Repeal vote, BlogActive released proof that Mr. Kirk is actually a closet case. Within hours of the DADT repeal vote I was contacted by two people who knew Kirk from his [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.