Why not seek to pass a marriage amendment through the Illinois General Assembly?
We have tried, but for two years now, House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) has effectively killed the marriage amendment bill by assigning it to the Rules Committee**. If it were to come before the entire General Assembly, we are confident that it would receive the needed two-thirds vote needed to pass a constitutional amendment.
[**NOTE: In a letter-to-the-editor of the Chicago Free Press (a homosexual newspaper), Andy Thayer of the Gay Liberation Network and Blake Wilkinson of Equal Marriage Now brag about their success in thwarting the people’s right to amend their state constitution, saying, that the “various bills for amendments are successfully bottled up in committees by Democrats and a few Republican moderates who have made the political calculation that, for the time being, their political futures are best served by not handing the most ardently conservative Republicans an issue. This is a marriage of convenience between these politicians and some LGBT leaders, a marriage which could be unceremoniously annulled if public opinion shifts.”]
To date, 19 states have passed protection of marriage amendments by an average vote of over 72 percent. The American people overwhelmingly and clearly reject the idea that marriage could be anything but the union of one man and one woman. This is an issue that the citizens of
