The ELCA Lutheran Church (the progressive ones) have elected a gay bishop to a six year term serving in the Los Angeles area. That's pretty cool, considering the denomination permitted gay pastors only 4 years ago.
Fingers are pointing in all directions about the failure of marriage equality in Illinois. I won't go into details. I wonder what is going on behind the scenes because the Democrats have 71 seats in the state House and the couldn't get the needed 60 votes.
Yeah, I know Illinois politics is strange, so I have no idea what to make of the latest development. The Illinois House Speaker extended the deadline for approval of the bill to August 31. Which means if the governor calls the chamber back into session for unfinished business (like pension reform) over the summer marriage equality could be taken up too. Maybe we won't have to wait for the regular session in November.
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