Same-sex marriage opponents failed to collect enough signatures to place an advisory referendum on the November ballot.
Protect Marriage Illinois ( PMI ) had previously boasted that they would turn in 300,000 signatures to the Illinois State Board of Elections by the May 5 deadline. In order to place an advisory referendum that would ask state legislatures to amend the constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman on the ballot, supporters would have had to turn in 270,000 valid signatures.
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According to the Springfield Journal-Register, PMI did not file by the deadline.
"By failing to even file petitions for an anti-gay ballot referendum, the 'Protect Marriage' bigots reveal themselves to be a weakened threat—at least for the moment,' Gay Liberation's Bob Schwartz told Windy City Times.
