I've certainly got my problems with Da Mare, but I have to give him a tip of my hat for coming out strongly in favor of gay marriage.
"They're your doctors, your lawyers, your journalists, your politicians," the mayor said. "They're someone's son or daughter. They're someone's mother or father. . . . I've seen people of the same sex adopt children, have families. [They're] great parents.
"Some people have a difference of opinion -- that only a man and a woman can get married. But in the long run, we have to understand what they're saying. They love each other just as much as anyone else.''
The whole article is very much worth reading.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gay19.html