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https://lambdalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ilove_274.jpg274213The Illinois civil union law went into effect only a year ago, but it’s already clear that the law fails to protect same-sex couples and their children. By excluding these families from marriage and relegating them to civil unions, the government has marked them as different and less worthy than other Illinois families—and that is...