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The Chicago Tribune reports on yesterday’s March On Springfield. Gay marriage supporters flocked to the Capitol grounds by the busload Tuesday, waving rainbow-colored flags and wearing rain-soaked bridal veils to pressure lawmakers to make Illinois the 15th state to legalize same-sex unions. The show of force that police estimated at 3,000 people ran up against the political reality that there’s …

“Overwhelmed, wearied and confused by years of attacks of all kinds a slim majority of Mainers grudgingly handed the sodomy movement the keys to Maine’s home. Tragically marriage, family, decency and common sense are all collapsing in the Pine Tree State. The truths of Genesis 19 and Romans 1 are becoming evident. I am encouraged by the efforts of Dave …

Activists and allies from all over Illinois are converging on Springfield this morning for today’s marriage equality march on the Capitol. Follow along at the Twitter hashtag #IL4M. A video live-stream of the event begins here in a couple of hours.

REMINDER: Tomorrow is the March On Springfield for marriage equality as the Illinois legislature meets for its fall veto session. Opponents and supporters of same-sex marriage are gearing up for another push in the Illinois Legislature. Supporters are planning a march and rally in Springfield on Tuesday, the first day of the Legislature’s fall session. Gov. Pat Quinn and other …

Illinois already includes gay people in its public accommodation laws, but that hasn’t stopped the local Catholic stormtroopers from lying about what the pending marriage equality bill will mean for busineses. (Which is nothing, of course, since that law is long established and has nothing to do with same-sex marriage.)  Freep the fuck out of this.

The Catholic Conference of Illinois, the Illinois Family Institute, and NOM are jointly promoting October 23rd as “Defend Marriage Lobby Day” at the state capitol.  Brian Brown writes: You may have heard media reports in the past week that the sponsors of the same-sex ‘marriage’ bill are reconsidering their strategy of calling the bill for a vote during the veto …

Illinois Unites, via press release: Because the Illinois House of Representatives has failed to enact the freedom to marry, Steve died before he and Robb could be married as Steve had wished. Their inability to marry in Illinois compounded the couple’s anguish, denying them more than a thousand federal protections available to married couples in the wake of the Supreme …

The Illinois Family Institute, an SPLC-certified hate group and the former home of Porno Pete, has posted two of the above (top) billboards on Interstate 57. The billboards will be up for three months and are presumaby intended to sway the public about the protracted marriage battle in Illinois. (Via Good As You)

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, seen above officiating at Minnesota’s first same-sex wedding, is in Chicago today to launch “Marry Me In Minneapolis,” a campaign that invites Illinoisans to visit his city for their gay marriages. Rybak’s message is that Chicagoans no longer have to make a long and expensive trip to the coasts to get married, just the six-hour drive …

“This is first of all a rational issue before it’s a faith issue. That is, it’s nature that tells us what marriage is, that in marriage, men and women aren’t interchangeable. We didn’t invent marriage. The church didn’t invent marriage. The state didn’t invent marriage. Nature gives us marriage. The Chinese are not Americans, and they’re not Catholic. They know …

Earlier this year the Republican Party of Illinois ousted its chairman, Pat Brady, after NOM and other anti-gay groups called for his removal for endorsing same-sex marriage.  But Brady now has a new gig. The ACLU hired Next Generation Public Affairs, a governmental affairs and public relations firm co-founded by Brady and Matt Strawn, former chairman of the Iowa Republican …

Groupon’s world headquarters is in Chicago.

“Arguing that marriage should be available to any human beings who profess to love each other not only ignores unique biological fruitfulness of male and female unions, but it also makes us wonder when — and why — plaintiffs would ever draw the line. Stretching plaintiffs’ rationale to the limits of their logic, why or how could they bar or …

Today in Illinois the Cook County Circuit Court heard oral arguments in the anti-gay Thomas More Society’s bid to dismiss the marriage equality lawsuit brought in May 2012 by Lambda Legal and the ACLU. Lambda Legal writes via press release: Today we urged the court to ensure that same-sex couples and their families get their day in court. We put …

Wheaton College professor Donald Ratcliff yesterday pleaded guilty to aggravated possession of child pornography. Ratcliff, who had been a professor of Christian education at the college since 2006, was arrested at his Carol Stream residence in March 2012 after police executed a search warrant. They found 500 illegal images on a computer they took from his home office, Assistant State’s …

And the hits keep coming! Via press release: Just two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Illinois will file a motion for summary judgment, asking for a swift ruling in favor of the freedom to marry in Illinois. The filing will be immediately followed by …

The Thomas More Society is representing two downstate Illinois county clerks who are defending against the ACLU’s lawsuit to legalize same-sex marriage.  Totally not gay US Rep. Aaron Schock is very sorry that he couldn’t be there for the group’s annual function, but he recorded the below video clip to congratulate them for their hard work to deny civil equality …

The Illinois Family Institute, an SPLC-certified hate group and the former home of Porno Pete, is calling on its followers to contact the Chicago police and demand that the above list of “public morals codes” be enforced at this weekend’s Chicago Pride events. The IFI writes: Though open containers with alcoholic beverages are illegal during the Gay Pride Parade, missing …

UPDATE: DuJan has a new fan at NOM.

Nutcase homocon blogger Kevin DuJan (above right) may be facing a lawsuit from a Chicago teacher whom DuJan claims makes racist jokes about his students during his moonlighting gig as a stand-up comedian. Kevin DuJan, the same blogger who speculated that President Barack Obama was a gay man with a cocaine habit, posted a story on his HillBuzz blog on …