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mopinko

(70,144 posts) Thu Mar 6, 2014, 01:41 PM Mar 2014

marriage equality comes to cook county

i know clerk orr, he lives down the street. he is a great dem who has been on the hot seat on this issue. many wanted him to issue licenses before the law changed.
i know how happy he is to be doing this.

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marriage equality comes to cook county (Original Post) mopinko Mar 2014 OP

Nice! peabody Mar 2014 #1

A friend of mine is in management in that office. He has worked for David for a long time. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2014 #2

we do it right up here in 49, i don't care what anyone says. mopinko Mar 2014 #4

Thanks to federal judge Sharon Johnson Coleman frazzled Mar 2014 #3

peabody

(445 posts)

1. Nice!

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Thu Mar 6, 2014, 01:51 PM

Mar 2014

They look like they're going to be wonderful families; the best to them all.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)

2. A friend of mine is in management in that office. He has worked for David for a long time.

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Thu Mar 6, 2014, 01:51 PM

Mar 2014

My friend says Orr is a kind and generous person and totally supportive of gay rights.

Every year there would be a protest of gay people sitting-in at the office demanding marriage equality. David, and my friend (who is gay, btw), would have liked nothing more than to grant the licenses.

mopinko

(70,144 posts)

4. we do it right up here in 49, i don't care what anyone says.

Reply to Hassin Bin Sober (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 6, 2014, 04:02 PM

Mar 2014

practical progressives. decent people. always on the right side of history.
we had protesters at 49th ward meetings when david was speaking. i think he did have a lot of support from others in the gay community who understood that him issuing licenses wouldn't change the law. if it had, he would have been happy to do it.

frazzled

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3. Thanks to federal judge Sharon Johnson Coleman

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Thu Mar 6, 2014, 02:19 PM

Mar 2014

and her ruling (I'm not blaming Orr, just pointing out that without the judge's ruling, he'd still have to have waited until June 1):

Giddy same-sex couples began rushing to the Daley Center Friday to apply for marriage licenses, after U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman issued her ruling.

“There is no reason to delay further when no opposition has been presented to this Court, and committed gay and lesbian couples have already suffered from the denial of their fundamental right to marry,” Coleman wrote.

In November, Illinois became the 16th state to legalize gay marriage. A month later, Coleman ruled that same sex-couples in which one or both partners has a life-threatening illness don’t have to wait until June to marry. Nine couples have so far taken advantage of that exception. Technically, December’s ruling applied only to Cook County, because Coleman’s decision stemmed from a suit filed against the Office of Cook County Clerk David Orr. Friday’s more expansive ruling also only applied to Cook County, but gay-right advocates were optimistic that other counties would soon follow suit.

http://www.suntimes.com/25741576-761/gay-marriages-dont-have-to-wait-judge-rules.html

And thanks to state AG Lisa Madigan, other counties should be following suit:

Attorney General Lisa Madigan is encouraging Illinois counties to grant same-sex marriage licenses immediately, following last month's federal court ruling that gave an early greenlight to same-sex couples in Cook County.

Madigan spelled out her position in a letter to the Macon County clerk's office, which sought legal guidance following a Feb. 21 ruling from U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman. The ruling allows Cook County same-sex couples to get married now, before a state law on the matter that takes effect June 1.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-05/news/chi-lisa-madigan-urges-counties-to-issue-samesex-marriage-licenses-now-20140304_1_ruling-cook-county-office

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