The efforts of the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) to collect enough signatures to have a gay marriage ban put to voters are looking futile, according to 365Gay.com.
The IFI must collect about 280,000 signatures by April 20, 2006. At the halfway point, the organization has collected approximately 50,000. However, even if the IFI procured the necessary signatures, got the issue on the ballot and had it approved by voters, it would not be binding under the state constitution.
It would only call on the legislature to enact an amendment and then submit that version to voters.
Polls show that most voters believe a law already in place to prevent same-sex couples is enough. The most recent poll, taken in June, indicated that while most voters oppose gay weddings, they would reject embedding that in the state constitution.
— Andrew Davis