Sen. Brady completes perfect foursome of homophobe enablers in HOP Gubernatorial Primary

It took persistence but I finally elicited a response from Sen. Bill Brady's senate office as to whether or not he will support marriage equality for all Illinoisans now that he's seeking the Illinois HOP (Homophobe Only Party, a.k.a. GOP) nomination for Governor a year from this November 4th. Sort of. After repeated calls, a pleasant staffer finally offered only that there would be no update from the good Senator aside from his NO vote to marriage equality when it passed the Illinois Senate last February. But, I persisted, maybe now that Brady seeks to govern all 13,000,000 Illinoisans, he's had an epiphany and realizes that all 13,000,000 deserve full civil rights including the roughly half million gay Illinoisans. "No further update, so you can infer what you wish", she said, and quickly ended the call. OK, I get it. Senator Brady, no doubt without a true homophobic bone in his body, must play homophobe enabler to the virulent homophobes who rule in the HOP Primary. In so doing he joins Senator Kirk Dillard (HOP, 24th), HOP stalwart and state treasurer Dan Rutherford, and Illinois' version of Mitt Romney, investment mega millionaire Bruce Rauner, who all pull the "incredible shrinking politician" ploy when the subject of marriage equality is broached.

Sadly, all four have passed on my previous suggestion that they hold a "sit down" mafia style, to unify behind marriage equality for all Illinoisans. This would be a sensible way of both doing the right thing for remaining second class Illinoisans being discriminated against due to their inherent nature,  and removing marriage equality as in issue in the HOP Primary.

A major reason for the demise of the HOP in Illinois is the cowardly pandering that HOP leaders exhibit instead of courage and decency concerning good governance of all the people. They remind me of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Pestilence, War, Famine and Death as described in the Book of Revelation from the New Testament who pose a Christian apocalyptic vision upon the world as harbingers of the Last Judgment. In 1924, sportswriter Grantland Rice poetically wrote about the modern Four Horsemen; Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden, the four Notre Dame footballers who tore through opposing teams like the dramatic Four Horsemen of the Bible. Alas, the quartet of Dillard, Rutherford, Rauner and now Brady, wrecking havoc on the HOP in Illinois would more appropriately be described as jellyfish.