According to www.newsmax.com, a Washington D.C. councilman David Catania says, he will introduce a bill to the city council on Tuesday, October 6 to allow same-sex couples to wed.

Same-sex marriages performed in states that allow them (that are Vermont, Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It is legal in Maine but is on hold due to opponents getting it on the November ballot.) are already recognized in the District, but the proposed law would let couples marry there regardless of gender.

The bill is expected to have 10 co-introducers and easily pass the 13-member city council. It has support from the city's mayor but will still have to get by Congress, which can overturn District legislation. The legislation will be called the "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009." After the Washington D.C. bill, Illinois Sen. Heather Steans for the first time in the history introduced gay marriage bill to the Illinois State Senate last Thursday, October 1st.

As www.queerty.com announces, the Equal Marriage Act matches the language of an analogous marriage bill that openly gay Rep. Greg Harris currently introduced in the Illinois House of Representatives. Illinois events gain much more significance as it is the native state of the US President, and even its legislature's decisions the experts consider as the important indicator of Obama's democracy.