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Letter: Why marriage laws? To collect taxes, protect kids
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Why do we have marriage laws? -- So the government can have another tax. -- To protect children. If it wasn't for children there would be no marriages. The Illinois General Assembly is going to pass same-sex marriage in January. Why? To please a very loud minority (less than 2 percent). Every Illinois lawmaker should go to the Ruth Institute website to read and download "77 Non-religious Reasons to Support Man/Woman Marriage." Same-sex marriage will not enhance morality in the state. It will only make some people feel that their perverted life style is normal. This is a case of money talks, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I think the General Assembly could spend its time a lot more productively by getting the state's financial house in order. Before you put words in my mouth or read something into this letter that I didn't say, I do not hate homosexuals! I just go by the moral guide that this country was founded on, the Holy Bible. Jim Brooks, East Moline 
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Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2013. There are 220 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The annual review of the fire department of this city took placeyesterday and made a fine showing with machines and hose carts in tip-top order.
1888 -- 125 years ago: Last night's prayer meeting at Central Presbyterian Church wascalled off due to water in the basement, residue of last week's flood.
1913 -- 100 years ago: The junior class of Rock Island High School will hold a riverexcursion on the steamer St. Paul next Tuesday.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The 75th Anniversary of the Rock Island Arsenal today finds thenation's largest ordinance manufacturing plant filling many important orders for the army.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Miss Patrice Daly, Rock Island, a senior at Rock Island HighSchool, won second place in the recent state public speaking contest held in Peoria underthe auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Hampton's sesquicentennial committee and the Hampton HistoricalSociety have scheduled a full slate of activities, which will be held throughout the year, to celebrate the village's 150th birthday. The first celebration will be the Memorial Dayprogram at 10 a.m. May 30, at the Brettun and Black Store Museum on River Road. Therewill be a sesquicentennial display.
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