Gay Marriage Bill Sponsors On Illinois Failure: We're Sorry

June 3, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Gay Marriage Bill Sponsors On Illinois Failure: We're Sorry Three days after the Illinois House of Representatives failed to take a vote on the state's gay marriage bill, a group of the legislation's leading sponsors on Monday issued an public apology addressed to same-sex families and advocates for the bill statewide. Continue reading... Rape Survivor Speaks Up Month After Unsolved Crime PHOTO: Patrick Stewart Learns The Mysteries Of Deep Dish PHOTOS: Ann Lurie's Massive Mansion For Sale Police Recover $500K In Stolen Chocolate, Booze, Fountains?! Teen Fatally Shot When Strangers Crash Family Birthday Party Teen Killed By Lightning Days Before High School Graduation Is This The Fanciest Walgreens Ever? Teen Fatally Shot When Strangers Crash Family Birthday Party WATCH: Teacher's Epic Resignation Video Is This The Fanciest Walgreens Ever? Teen Fatally Shot When Strangers Crash Family Birthday Party GEOFFREY R. STONE Same-Sex Marriage in Illinois: The Role of the Black Church The usual liberalism of the Black Caucus in Illinois apparently does not extend to protecting the equality rights of gays and lesbians. The explanation for this apparent puzzle seems to rest less in the views of the legislators than in the politics of religion in the African-American community. Continue reading... WAYMON HUDSON Marriage Equality Stalls in Illinois: An In-Depth Look It seems the long road to full equality in "The Prairie State" will continue to wind on, at least for now, as marriage equality supporters look ahead to both the veto session in the house and the current marriage lawsuit making its way through the Illinois court system brought by Lambda Legal and the ACLU. Continue reading... KELLY KLEIMAN LaBute and Moliere Occupy Chicago Theater The gap between privilege and its absence gets bigger by the day, and in contemporary discourse it's considered revolutionary (or at least rude) to point that out. But as long as we're talking about the 17th Century, or the go-go 90s, or even 2004, it's safe to speak the truth. Continue reading... MICHAEL ROSENBLUM Chicago Sun-Times Fires Photogs, Trains Reporters on iPhones Instead A lot more or the 'traditional' architecture of newspapers and TV news is going to change before this is all over, and this is no bad thing. This is how old industries reinvent themselves to survive and thrive in a very different world from that in which they were first created. Continue reading... ANDREA KOVACH Illinois General Assembly Extends Medicaid Coverage to Low-Income Residents With those words the President of the Illinois Senate asked the clerk of the chamber torecord the votes on Senate Bill 26, as amended, the bill which would put Illinois in the column of states that will, come January 1, 2014, offer Medicaid coverage to all low-income state residents. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003