We have made progress in Illinois. After decades of hard work, Illinois finally passed civil unions last year and took a step in the right direction. But civil unions are not marriage.
Though he has come under fire by LGBT advocates over a comment he recently made comparing Gay Pride Parade organizers to "something like the Ku Klux K...
Cardinal George's outrageous comparison of the LGBT community to the Ku Klux Klan was so degrading and hurtful that apologizing will not be sufficient. His only road to redemption is handing in his resignation.
If all religious groups paid their fair share of taxes, I wouldn't be as angry when they spoke out against my right to equality. But when a religious leader like Cardinal George gets a large forum to amplify his prejudice off all our taxpayer backs, it is an unfair system.
An online petition launched this week is calling on Cardinal Francis George, the Chicago Archbishop, to resign from his post following a comment he ma...