Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act
An equal marriage bill was introduced in the Illinois House last week. Cosponsored by Rep. Greg Harris, Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, Rep. Constance A. Howard, & Rep. Harry Osterman, the bill would change the definition of marriage to be between any two persons (not closely related by blood) rather than “a man and a woman”. There is a group of people getting together next Tuesday March 6th at 5:30 in the Geneva Room of the McKinley Foundation to hash out what type of action we could take to help the bill pass. Anyone who wants to attend is welcome.
Please RSVP to me (reames@uiuc.edu) if you want pizza (which I will be buying). Feel free to just show up, but if you don’t RSVP I won’t promise there will be enough pizza for you.
5:30 pm, Tuesday, March 6th
Geneva Room
McKinley Church and Foundation
809 S. Fifth St.
Champaign, Il 61820
House Bill 1615:
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=1615&GAID=9&SessionID=51&LegID=30427
Equal Marriage Illinois Champaign County - the local equal marriage activism group in Champaign-Urbana which is hosting the meeting
http://www.equalmarriagecc.org/
February 28th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
I think that’s a wonderful idea to change the meaning of marriage between two persons. I also think because it’s the states who issue the marriage licenses, they cannot discriminate on the basis of a person’s sexuality.