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SPRINGFIELD, IL , March 27, 2014 -- Bringing Illinois one step closer to becoming the third state in the nation to ban reparative therapy for same-sex-attracted minors, a committee in the state House has passed a ban on the controversial treatment. By a vote of 9-6, the House's Human Services Committee passed the Conversion Therapy Prohibition Act. The legislation  was introduced  by lesbian Kelly Cassidy , a Democrat. According to  The Huffington Post , Cassidy previously said the bill was designed "to keep our LGBT youth safe." In a statement , the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) called the legislation "destructive, unethical, and dishonest." The organization, which has opposed the legislation since it was introduced, says "the ultimate motivation behind this legislation is to promote the Leftist assumptions of adult homosexuals who seek to wipe disapproval of homosexual acts from the face of the planet.” IFI also said the bill "is

SPRINGFIELD, IL , March 6, 2014  – At the urging of the state attorney general, clerks in three Illinois counties have announced they will begin issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples months before they are allowed to by law. The state may not issue legal marriage certificates to same-sex couples until June 1 under a new law signed by Gov. Pat Quinn. But an Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge , Sharon Johnson Coleman, ruled on February 21 that  Cook County could begin legally recognizing gay unions at once , because homosexuals had “already suffered from the denial of their fundamental right to marry.” Illinois State Attorney General Lisa Madigan Although the ruling applied only to Cook County, State Attorney General Lisa Madigan wrote a letter encouraging all county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples at once. Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten, a Republican, announced that he will comply, saying what is true for one county must be

CHICAGO, February 24, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A federal judge appointed by Barack Obama has ruled that homosexuals in Chicago can get “married” starting immediately – even though the state law recognizing same-sex “marriage” has not yet gone into effect. The bill creating same-sex “marriage” in Illinois , which proponents dubbed the “Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act,” does not provide for homosexual nuptials to be recognized until June 1. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, an Obama appointee But U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said she decided to allow homosexual couples to obtain marriage licenses at once, because there had been no legal objection in her court and homosexuals had “already suffered from the denial of their fundamental right to marry.” Another federal judge ruled last year that homosexuals who had medical conditions that would likely allow them to die could receive a marriage license before the law had formally been c

Cook County judge is member of homosexual judges group, advocated for “gay” cause; pro-family attorneys say she should recuse herself from case Cook County Circuit Court Judge Sophia Hall as she appears in 2007 photo of her being honored along with 13 other openly homosexual judges. (See larger photo below.) Hall is a member of a Chicago -area homosexual judges group that celebrates homosexual unions and marches annually in Chicago’s “ Gay Pride ” parade. CHICAGO—Cook County Circuit Court  Judge Sophia Hall  – who will rule on combined pro-homosexual lawsuits challenging  Illinois ’ existing law defining marriage as one-man, one-woman — is an open lesbian and pro-homosexuality advocate, according to information widely available online but which has gone unreported by the media. Judge Hall’s homosexuality is not a secret, nor an ”open secret” –as it was with   Vaughn Walker , the California judge who last year issued a decision overturning that state’s Proposition 8 marr

WASHINGTON, DC , January 27, 2014  – The US Catholic bishop from Illinois who held a public exorcism on the same day the state governor signed into effect a controversial same-sex “marriage” bill has defended his actions as the “loving” thing to do. “You really have to understand what love is all about. Love is really to seek the best for people. By being opposed to the redefinition of marriage , and being opposed to things that are sinful, that’s actually a very loving thing,” Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Springfield Diocese told LifeSiteNews.com in a video interview during the March for Life in Washington, DC. It was in November that Paprocki held the  rare public exorcism , an event that he  defended  as a prayer to God to cast out the influences of evil in the state. The service, held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception , was called “Prayers of Supplication and Exorcism in Reparation for the Sin of Same-Sex Marriage.” During an announcement of the eve

ROME, January 17, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The homosexualist lobby, one of the most powerful at the European Union and Council of Europe, has been busy over the last month, particularly with preparations for opposing Russia’s “gay propaganda ban” in the lead up to the Sochi Winter Olympics. The main player in Europe’s branch of the movement is  ILGA Europe , (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association,) an NGO funded directly by the European Union and a consortium of far-left foundations.  The group works tirelessly and systematically to bring  the homosexualist ideology  to legal and social fruition in every country of the European Union, issuing demands, normally with the wholehearted support of activist MEPs, that nations like Serbia and Croatia toe the line before they are considered for membership in the EU. In countries where civil partnerships are already established, they work to change the definition of marriage to include same-sex p

City Hall of Portland, Oregon (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) January 20, 2014 ( FRC ) - In a politically correct world, the costs of running a business are a lot more than dollars and cents. For Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of a small Oregon bakery, the price is their First Amendment rights . Their dream of opening a dessert shop near Portland, Oregon turned into a nightmare when two lesbians refused to take "no" for an answer on their request for a same-sex "wedding" cake. Exactly one year ago, the Kleins explained that they couldn't take the order because it would violate their faith to participate in a same-sex "marriage" ceremony. Furious, the women filed a complaint with the state. The story made national headlines, as the young couple became another face in the war on religious liberty. "We still stand by what we believe from the beginning," Aaron told reporters. "I'm not sure what the future holds, but as far as