Sounds like this bill was on its way to the legislative afterlife regardless. They had two years to act on it. But they clearly weren’t interested. So, faced with growing criticism from gay groups at the end of the term, the Democratic caucus decides to blame Blegojevich. Since he’s “going down” anyway, he might as well fall on his sword for this one too.

The governor might be guilty of many crimes. But there’s something about this civil union story that doesn’t add up logically. I think Rod’s former friends in the legislature are using him as a recepticle for all the trash they want to dispose of.

However, we don’t need for guests on talk shows to agree with us, we need our judges and congressmen(and women) and President to agree with us.

The easy hardline bigots like Huckabee are pretty easy to deal with, but it’s the soft bigots like Barack Obama who talks about equal rights out one side of his mouth, while vehemently opposing marriage equality on the other side.

Just like Democrats can BUY a Senate seat…

What a bunch of hypocrites the Democratic Party is. We love gays, but we won’t recognize them. But we’ll sell a Senate seat…

There were bad choices on gov’s part. The people’s business has to come to standstill for his likely criminal trial and so at least perhaps an interum governor will now have to be found.

His downfall and the paralysis it will cause Illinois was his own irrespobsibility and his citizens, unfortunately will have to pay the price in not getting their business done.

It is up to the citizens of his state to pull together as one and to elect a progay governor.

The local equality org can educate the people of the state about equality for all same as the other equality orgs in the other states are doing. The “squeaky wheel gets the grease”. If gays in Illinois don’t speak up for their rights, they will be forgotten in the midst of the gov’s arrest, what’s the state to do next about replacing him, and the economic problems.

If only the Democrats controlled Illinois! Errrr, scratch that.

They’re *always* “too busy.”

In FAR too many legislatures, voting for equal rights for LGBTQ people is the untouchable political third rail of death, much as voting for integration was in the 1950s-1960s … and indeed President Lyndon Johnson’s courage DID cost the Democrats the Old South, from the time of the passage of the Civil Rights Act until the election of Senator Barack Obama … and even then, at best the Deep South turned “purple” in and around large cities and university towns.

Somebody should do an anthropological study to determine how the segregationists of the 1950s became the homophobes of 2008. The warped version of religion popular in the South explains a lot of it, but not all.

Bud Burgoon-Clark
San Diego CA USA