Illinois the Next State Slated To Consider Gay Marriage

Momentum builds

This month, the Illinois Assembly takes up the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, which would grant same-sex couples the freedom to marry. In an effort to defeat the bill, opponents argue that it could infringe on religious liberty by permitting lesbian or gay couples to sue churches for refusing to rent parish halls.

This is a completely manufactured concern. Same-sex couples have been marrying in the U.S. since 2004 and were renting space for informal commitment ceremonies long before that, and there has never been a lawsuit anywhere in the country by a same-sex couple against a church over a parish hall.