McHenry County Blog

In a Monday email, State Senator and third place GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady asked supporters to gather signatures to help place the Protect Marriage advisory referendum question on the ballot this fall.

He asked that they be delivered to his Bloomington campaign office by May 1st.
Brady explained the reason for his support like this:

The reason that the petition drive was started is because a few years ago the Massachusetts Supreme Court overturned its own state law defining marriage as between one man and one woman, a law similar to the one we have in Illinois.

After that action, concerned citizens in many states, including Illinois, decided to amend their state constitutions so their state supreme courts would not unilaterally overturn their own state laws – and thus re-define marriage.

Family leaders in Illinois met and decided to pass a constitutional amendment protecting marriage. This requires passage in both the House and Senate in Springfield.

While the votes were there to pass it, the House Rules Committee bottled it up so it couldn’t get hearing.

Therefore, Protect Marriage Illinois was formed to collect enough signatures on a petition so as to legally put the question before the voters this November. If enough signatures are gathered, then voters will have a chance to weigh in on this critical issue – and legislators will finally have to listen.

The results of this November ballot will be used to push for passage of a real constitutional amendment to protect marriage once and for all in Illinois.

Most of McHenry County Blog readers aren’t near Bloomington, of course, so, if you want to pass a petition, you can download it from this web site.

I assume that if someone from around here collected any and drove them down to the Family Taxpayers Network office at 8 East Main Street in Carpentersville that they would be taken to the assembly point.