Catholic Charities Fight Back On Gay Adoption Days Before Civil Union Law

Rockford Catholic Charities has announced it will discontinue state-funded adoption and foster care services, which will displace 350 area children. This comes just days before the state's first Civil Union licenses will be made available, and after multiple attempts were made in the General Assembly to ensure Catholic Charities' right to effectively discriminate against a prospective parent on t...

Progress Illinois • May 28, 2011

Harris Introduces Same-Sex Marriage Bill

The Chicago Democrat introduced the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act last week, which seeks to "to provide eligible same-sex and opposite-sex couples with the same treatment as those in a civil marriage." More specifically, it requires that an individual in a same-sex marriage be included under the legal definitions: "spouse", "immediate family", and "dependent."...

Progress Illinois • Feb 9, 2009