The home state of the Great Emancipator (and possible "friend of Whitman") took a big step for freedom yesterday. The Illinois State Senate approved Marriage Equality legislation with a 34 to 21 vote. Several lawmakers delivered moving words in support of the right to marry on, appropriately, Valentine's Day.
Big thanks to State Senator Daniel Biss for honoring Illinois progressive tradition with shout outs to Jane Addams, Richard Wright, Studs Terkel and Aaron Swartz. I'd like to add one more Illinian? Illinoisan? (there really is no good demonym, is there?) to the list: the great liberal champion Adlai Stevenson.
As the fight for Marriage Equality moves forward remember, in the words of Adlai Stevenson: What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us — what convictions, what courage, what faith — win or lose.
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