Illinois fails to make it 13 for marriage equality

by Laura Clawson for Daily Kos

Daily Kos Staff

Friday, May. 31, 2013 Friday, May. 31, 2013 at 6:54:28pm PDT

no image description available — Not in Illinois, not now anyway.

Generic male and female couple figures, female-female, female-male, and male, male.

Not in Illinois, not now anyway.

Dammit, Illinois:

The Illinois House of Representatives will not vote on a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state this session, delaying the matter to be considered next this fall at the earliest.
State Rep. Greg Harris, the bill's sponsor, addressed the House floor Friday evening and announced that he would not be calling the vote Friday because House colleagues asked for more time to consider it.

The state Senate had passed it, the governor would have signed it. But the people of Illinois will still be denied marriage equality.