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A Marriage Equality Valentine for Illinois?

A Marriage Equality Valentine for Illinois?

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State Senate president John Cullerton says he'd like to see his chamber approve the marriage equality bill on Valentine's Day.

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The president of the Illinois state Senate want to send same-sex couples a valentine in the form of a vote for marriage equality February 14.

"I'd like to pass it out of committee next week and pass it on Valentine's Day," Senate president John Cullerton said of the pending marriage equality bill during a meeting with the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board Thursday.

Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat, said he believes there's sufficient support in the Senate for the bill to pass and move on to the House. If both chambers approve it and Gov. Pat Quinn signs it as promised, Illinois would become the 10th state in the nation with equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. It would be the second in the Midwest and the first in that region to approve same-sex marriage legislatively; in neighboring Iowa, marriage equality came through a state Supreme Court ruling.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
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