Saturday, January 5, 2013

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Gay Marriage Illinois: With Stalled Push For Marriage Equality In Lame-Duck Session, Doubts Creep In

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Gay Marriage Illinois: With Stalled Push For Marriage Equality In Lame-Duck Session, Doubts Creep In
Jan 5th 2013, 23:56

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The stalling of Illinois' gay-marriage push – at least for now – shows the difficulty of approving legislation to legalize it, even with a nudge from the home-state president, steadily rising support in the polls and national momentum from the November elections.

Democrats control both chambers of the General Assembly and the governor's office in the solidly blue state. Yet the margin of support Senate Democrats were able to pull together for a bill last week was so thin that a death in one lawmaker's family and another senator's extended trip to Israel were enough to push the issue into the next legislative session.


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