McHenry County Blog

An email from the Illinois Family Institute says that the 283,111 minimum signature requirement to put the Protect Marriage advisory referendum on the ballot has been reached.

From my Libertarian Party gubernatorial petition experience, however, I know that many more than the minimun number of signatures are needed. We filed over twice as many as were required and the Republicans challenged them anyway…until the Federal investigation of House Republican leader Lee Daniels was made public.

It is certain that the homosexuals will mount a similar challenge.

So, if you want this question on the ballot, don’t stop collecting signatures. There is one weekend. Petitions need to be filed by Monday, May 8th.

You can find where to take them here.

Tribune columnist Eric Zorn entitles today’s column

Anti-gay issue could shake up the fall election

He reports that the homosexuals have already had a victory party last week. Zorn reports that the Chicago's Gay Liberation Network’s invitation read

Join us as we celebrate the failure of far-right forces in Illinois to get an anti-gay referendum on the November ballot.

Without citing his source, Zorn reports social conservatives are

also no doubt alarmed by a recent poll showing a sharp drop in opposition to gay marriage--from 63 percent in 2004 to 51 percent today.

But he does conclude,

The real celebrations will come later.

Meanwhile, stockholders of Gay Games supporter Kraft Foods turned back 99-1 a proxy effort to end Kraft's financing of the Gay Games.

Corporate American has obviously bought into the homosexual agenda.

And, another "meanwhile":

The Institute of Marriage and Public Policy has just published a study investigating the percentage of homosexuals and lesbians who get married when it is legal.

The highest estimated percentage--16.7%--was found in Massachusetts. Authors Maggie Gallagher and Joshua K. Baker, looking worldwide, discovered that something between 1% and 5% get married, when allowed to. Noting that trend data "is extremely limited...data suggest that the number of gay marriages tends to decrease after an initial burst (reflecting pent-up demand)."

Incidentally, the study cites survey data from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey showing

1.3% of Canadian men and 7/10ths of 1% of Canadian women ageded 18-65 self-identified as gay or lesbian.

The provinces with the highest gay marriage rates were British Columbia, Nova Scotia and the Yukon.

(Why does that remind me of the Monte Pyton lumberjack song?)

# posted by Cal Skinner : 10:05 AM