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CHICAGO - Equality Illinois said Monday (July 2) the petition on behalf of two county clerks seeking to defend the state’s discriminatory marriage law offers the exact reason—legal chaos—why statewide recognition of marriage equality is required.
The petition, filed late Friday by the right-wing, ultraconservative activist group Thomas More Society on behalf of the county clerks of Effingham and Tazewell counties seeks the right to defend the current law banning same-sex marriages in Cook County Circuit Court, where two suits have been filed seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional. (FULL STORY)
The petition, filed late Friday by the right-wing, ultraconservative activist group Thomas More Society on behalf of the county clerks of Effingham and Tazewell counties seeks the right to defend the current law banning same-sex marriages in Cook County Circuit Court, where two suits have been filed seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional. (FULL STORY)
