One News Now----Homosexuals have gone to the courts to obtain the right to "marriage"
in Illinois -- in spite of the legislature approving same-gender civil
unions last year.
The
homosexual activist group Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties
Union filed suit against the Cook County clerk in Chicago on behalf of
25 same-gender pairs who were refused a marriage license. Laurie Higgins
of the Illinois Family Institute
tells OneNewsNow the legal action was initiated despite the fact the
state now allows civil unions, which grant the same rights as
heterosexual marriage.
"For those conservatives who were saying, Oh, just give them civil unions and that'll be the end of it --
they were naïve and ignorant," she offers. "I don't mean [they're]
stupid -- I mean [they're] unaware, not knowledgeable; and they should
have been [aware] that this was what was coming."
Higgins
contends that going to court to force homosexual marriage on Illinois
residents is yet another clear example that homosexuals are never
satisfied with civil unions.
"Because yes, they do want the
benefits -- but what homosexuals want centrally is cultural approval,"
explains the family advocate. "They want there to be no formal public
recognition that homosexual unions are different from heterosexual
unions."
IFI executive director David Smith made the following
observation in a prepared statement: "It's now painfully obvious that
the purpose for securing civil unions legislation last year was to gain
legal leverage in the left's attempt to overturn the Illinois Defense of
Marriage law."
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