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MAY 8, 2013
Vol. 5 No. 23
‘i am going to vote for the bill’
Sandack’s support of marriage equality bill not swayed by weekend demonstration By Jonathan Samples Staff Reporter
People both for and against gay marriage demonstrated outside of state Rep. Ron
Sandack’s Downers Grove office Saturday, making for a contentious, yet appropriate, setting. In February, Sandack, R-Downers Grove,became the first Illinois House Republican to come out in favor of
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Supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage rallied outside of Rep. Ron Sandack’s Downers Grove office.
marriage-equality legislation, and he restated that position Saturday for groups on both sides of the issue. “To be completely fourth right with you all, I am going to vote for the bill,” Sandack said to the group opposed to same-sex marriage. The Illinois Family Institute, a Carol Stream-based anti-gay Christian group, arranged to hold their “Defend Marriage” rally to assert their opposition to legislation that would legally permit samesex marriage. They also were there to ask Sandack to reconsider his support of Senate Bill 10, which would create the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act. “If same-sex ‘marriage’ becomes the law in Illinois, it will negatively See MARRIAGE EQUALITY, page 4