Paging through the morning newspaper that covered all of time, including this very day, Hinky Dink said, “Well, it looks like they finally figured out how to get rid of this gay marriage ban thing. Because they did it Chicago Style.”

“How’s that Hink?” Bathhouse John was deep into the sports reporting of the Cubs chance in the World Series. But when he realized what his partner had said, he looked up. “Haven’t they figured that out yet? What do you suppose all those whack jobs would do if they knew that out here where we are, there are centuries full of voices saying, ‘You opposed people wanting to marry who they wanted to marry? You had a law against that? Just how stupid are you!”

“Especially in, what’s the date on this paper, June of 2012. It ain’t like there were no other problems!”

“You mean like real problems? Problems besides the government messing with people’s love lives.”

“Uh huh.”

“So what happened? What did they do Chicago Style?” How did they get rid of this silly law banning what should never ever be banned. I mean, if we can’t make a buck with something, it should not be banned, right?” said Bathhouse.

“We’ll yeah. But that ain’t the story. Here’s the story. Lawsuits were filed on behalf of 25 couples saying the ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. One of ‘um was filed by a cop. A lady Detective and her partner.”

“Do they work for us?”

“No, beer for brains. This is 2012 I’m talking about. Not now.”

“Yeah Ok. So what happened?”

“So they filed the suit against the Cook County Clerk. David Orr. They sued him for not giving them marriage licenses.”

“OK.” Said Bathouse. “So what?”

“”So what Orr did? He agreed with them. He said they were right!”

“That is outstanding! He agreed with the folks suing him! Now tell the rest. Who had his back?”

“States Attorney. Anita Alverez. She said that if the courts agree, then gay marriage would be legal here without additional legislation.”

“So that means,” Bathhouse said, “No state reps to pay off to get this done. Guy sues you for doing something that you know is wrong. You say, ‘Yeah. Your right. It is wrong. Judge agrees. And suddenly nobody is standing up in Chicago screaming that people can’t be getting married to whoever they want.”

“You got it.” Said Hinky Dink. “An end run of the finest order.”

“By a couple of politicians.”

Yep”

“Actually doing the right thing”

“And, “ said Bathhouse. Doing it the Chicago way.