My standing joke is, in the event I get married, I would most likely have to go to Iowa. "Can you imagine how embarassing it would be for a Chicagoan, a resident of one of the major cultural capitals of the world, to admit that he had to go to Iowa to marry his husband?"
Well, it ain't just me. Here's state rep. Deb Mell, announcing her engagement:
She got some congratulations, too.
We have a civil unions bill stalled in committee in the Assembly, and a marriage bill, introduced by my senator, Heather Steans, stalled in committee in the Senate. It's sort of sad that in the first state to repeal it's sodomy laws in 1961, we can't move a little more quickly on this. They can't blame it on the Republicans any more -- they're no longer in control of the Legislature. So what gives?
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