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Advocating the inevitable: Obama wants gay marriage legalized in Illinois

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By Pat Cunningham

Given the rapid rise of public support for legalization of same-sex marriage in recent years, it seems likely that the next generation of Americans will look back on the prohibition of such unions as benighted puritanism.

Illinois, a state with a large and diverse population and home to one of the nation’s most cosmopolitan big cities, shouldn’t want to be remembered as a laggard on this score.

Fortunately, the state’s most prominent citizen is URGING action on this matter forthwith:

President Barack Obama is urging the Illinois General Assembly to legalize gay marriage in his home state as lawmakers are ...

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