Dinosaur sightings at IL GOP Convention

The Illinois GOP social dinosaurs are in full battle against the forces of modernity trying to salvage the GOP brand at the state convention in Peoria. My congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6) and my state rep Peter Breen (IL 48) are leading the charge to roll back gay marriage, appalled that the platform committee would deign to recognize, by a 10-7 vote, that "non-traditional families are worthy of the same respect and legal protections as traditional families.” It's 'dis-respect or nothing' to GOP deadenders like Roskam and Breen trying to breathe life into the dead dinosaur of homophobia. "Today's action by a narrow majority of the platform committee to redefine marriage followed a flawed, closed-door process that excluded and marginalized the deeply held beliefs of a majority of Illinois Republicans" charged Breen, who moonlights as Chief Counsel for the Thomas More Society, reeling from the collapse of its decades long campaign to keep gays marginalized.

On the abortion front the social dinosaurs were more successful, beating back a plank that would allow for abortion in cases of rape or incest. Still roaming the north suburban 9th Congressional District, committee member Dave Carrabotta bellowed “You give an eighth of an inch...the game is over.” Apparently, forcing women to bear their molester's child is just a game to social dinosaur Carrabotta.

Maybe to facilitate their work the IL GOP should hang the following sign on the platform committee room door:
. QUIET: DINOSAUR HABITAT