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“Homosexual behavior is always wrong, according to vast scope of Judeo-Christian history, so it is tragic to behold the State of Illinois – or any government entity – recognizing immoral same-sex relationships and treating them like marriage. Moreover, for the City of Chicago and Gov. Pat Quinn to celebrate homosexuality with a mass Civil Union ceremony June 2nd is an …

Today Illinois becomes the sixth state with legalized civil unions. Long lines are expected to form early Wednesday at the Cook County Clerk’s downtown office of vital records as couples from across Chicago gather to be part of a historic moment — the issuing of the state’s first civil union licenses. The doors will open at 7:30 a.m. and the …

The red-caped loons were there!

Porno Pete LaBarbera and his merry band of KKKloset Kases staged an anti-gay marriage rally in downtown Chicago yesterday. Opponents of the new law that will allow same-sex civil unions rallied at the Thompson Center today demanding that Illinois voters be allowed to decide the fate of the issue through referendum. Days before a measure that will give gay couples …

The first action from Porno Pete’s latest hate group will be an anti-civil unions protest today in downtown Chicago. LaBarbera is once again trying to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the Illinois ballot, something he laughably failed at in 2006 due to “questionable” petition signatures. IDMI is a statewide effort to preservee the historic, traditional definition of …

Catholic Charities of Rockford, Illinois announced yesterday that they will suspend all foster care and adoption services rather than comply with the state’s new civil unions law. Officials cited a lack of clarity in the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act, which does not specify whether religious child welfare agencies must place children with couples in civil unions. …

Good As You tips us that the Illinois Defense of Marriage Initiative is fighting against the “proponents of communism and fascism” who want to “control the lives of the Free World” through their “unGodly behavior.” OK, then.

Catholic Charities of Peoria, Illinois says that it will continue to deny its adoption services to gay people despite the recent failure of a bill that would have exempted them from anti-discrimination laws. Civil unions go into effect in Illinois on June 1st. “The Catholic Church is not going to be OK with Catholic Charities processing applications from anyone in …

Illinois Republicans have quietly added an anti-gay adoption amendment into a bill to assist the blind. Windy City Times reports: An amendment to a proposed bill in the Illinois Senate states that “a child welfare agency that is religiously based or owned by, operated by, or affiliated with a bona fide religious organization may decline an adoption or foster family …

The Seventh Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling against an Illinois woman who sued Wal-Mart for religious discrimination. According to the woman, she has a God-given right to scream anti-gay epithets at her coworkers. Gay City News reports: According to the unsigned ruling, Tanisha Matthews, who describes herself as an Apostolic Christian, worked as an overnight stocker …

The same group whose anti-abortion billboard was yanked in Soho is posting thirty of the above billboards around Chicago’s black neighborhoods. Think Progress reports: As the Guttmacher Institute notes, these groups are “exploiting and distorting” the fact that “the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women” to falsely blame the “aggressive marketing by abortion …

JMG reader Patrick writes: “I just happened across the old Protect Marriage Illinois website, (the one set up by the Illinois Family Institute a few years back when they unsuccessfully tried to get a marriage referendum on the ballot), and after years of inactivity, it’s currently displaying a message stating that a ‘Citizen Petitions to Protect Marriage in Illinois’ is …

Porno Pete is asking his followers to send in proof of “pro-homosexuality propaganda” in public schools, using the above display from an Illinois high school as an example. Each pro-homosexual law makes it easier for school administrators and teachers to allow the one-sided promotion of homosexuality in their school, as occurred recently at Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Illinois …

“In Great Britain, Christians are now effectively second-class citizens, judged ‘unfit’ to care for foster children. If they are unfit to foster children, logically they are also unfit to adopt, and possibly as one British lawyer suggested to the press, unfit to parent their own children, too. Could it happen over here? Yes. We see the first steps of the …

Yesterday Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed the bill abolishing the death penalty in his state and commuting the sentences of prisoners on death row. Today Amnesty International updated their above map, which is interactive on their site. Among the 35 states still making executions, Texas has almost five times more prisoners on death row than the number two state, Virginia.

Two Illinois bed and breakfast hotels have turned away a gay couple’s request to hold their civil unions ceremony, with one lodging manager emailing the couple to tell them to repent. “We will never host same-sex civil unions. We will never host same-sex weddings even if they become legal in Illinois,” Timber Creek operators told [Todd] Wathen in an e-mail. …

Former Obama administration White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel today coasted to an easy victory in Chicago’s mayoral race. “I want to extend my congratulations to Rahm Emanuel on a well-deserved victory tonight,” Obama said in a statement. “As a Chicagoan and a friend, I couldn’t be prouder. Rahm will be a terrific mayor for all the people of …

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn will sign his state’s civil unions bill today in a 4PM ceremony expected to be attended by a huge crowd. A capacity crowd at a historic downtown Chicago venue? No, it isn’t a concert or even the big game — it’s to watch civil unions become legal in Illinois. When Gov. Pat Quinn signs the historic …

The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to hear Rahm Emanuel’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that he does not meet the eligibility requirements to be mayor of Chicago. It will hear the case without oral arguments or new briefs, allowing for a faster ruling on the matter. The quick proceedings are necessary, with the race less than a month …