Tag Archives: Religious Freedom and Marriage Act
Our State Lawmakers Need to Hear from You!
Over the Christmas weekend, you may have seen or heard the reports from the media extolling the news that 260 clergy — mostly from the Chicago area — signed a petition in support of redefining marriage. In response to this story, IFI’s Laurie Higgins had some very good quotes in a New York Times article, while I had a short quote in the WGN-TV report that aired four days ago.
It is important that we keep this “news” in perspective. In the state of Illinois, there are over a thousand Roman Catholic churches, over a thousand Southern Baptist churches, …
Lawmakers to Vote on Same-Sex “Marriage” in January?
Multiple media sources are cheerfully reporting that supporters of marriage-redefinition may try to pass their same-sex “marriage” bill during the lame duck session of the General Assembly next month (January 3-9).
State Representative Greg Harris (D-Chicago), who identifies as homosexual and is the chief sponsor of this anti-family legislation, used the lame duck session in 2010 to ram through a same-sex “civil unions” bill. It passed by razor-thin margins in part because many proponents of civil unions dishonestly promised lawmakers that the legalization of “civil unions” was all they wanted.
The ethically-challenged ACLU lobbied heavily for civil unions in 2010, …
