Downstate county clerks move to defend gay marriage ban
July 2, 2012
By: Alex Keefe (http://www.wbez.org)
via Equality Illinois
(FULL STORY)
Two downstate county clerks are stepping in to defend Illinois' gay marriage ban, after high-ranking government lawyers made the rare decision not to defend the state law against a pair of legal challenges in Cook County.
The request to intervene in the lawsuits was quietly filed late Friday afternoon by Clerks Kerry Hirtzel, a Republican from downstate Effingham County, and Christie Webb, a Democrat from Tazewell County in central Illinois.
The two lawsuits challenging Illinois' marriage law are being brought by 25 same-sex couples who were turned away when they tried to get marriage licenses from Cook County Clerk David Orr. (FULL STORY)
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Equality Illinois
CALL Tazewell County Clerk Christie Webb (309) 477-2264 and Effingham County Clerk Kerry J. Hirtzel (217) 342-6535 AND TELL THEM TO DROP THEIR HOMOPHOBIC CHALLENGE TO MARRIAGE EQUALITY!
