SECOND STATE

Illinois may have beat NY state to legalizing civil unions for gay couples, but that still makes gay couples in Illinois second class citizens. NY state just trumped Illinois by giving them The Full Monty...MARRIAGE! We Illinoisians should not rest as long as a single couple has to explain to their fellow citizens that they weren't married...they were only civil unioned. That is disgusting.

Speaking of seconds, Chicago may always be the Second City, but Illinois blew a great chance last January in the humanitarian sweepstakes with their Empire State rival... of being the First State.