Illinois Senate President John Cullerton wants a gay marriage bill vote on Valentine's Day.

'I’d like to pass it out of committee next week and pass it on Valentine’s Day,' the senator said to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Known as Senate Bill 10, Cullerton is certain there are enough votes to pass the legislation through his chamber. It would then move to the House. If approved, the Prairie State would be the tenth US state where same sex marriage is legal.

Last month a similar proposal stalled by failing to get two votes for a legislative hearing. Senator Heather Steans and Representative Greg Harris, sponsors of the measure, are now crafting language to take into account objections from religious organizations, specifically the fear churches that are polling places will have to sponsor same sex ceremonies.

'I think under the language we’re working on, everyone is a lot more comfortable there’s no threat of a religious place having to open up to a religious ceremony if they don’t want to,'  Steans said to the newspaper.

This will probably not be enough for Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George. Last month he called gay marriage a fiction. The cardinal also suggested gays and lesbians remain celibate and not aim to ‘destroy’ natural law’ by attempting to legislate such ‘artificial constructs’.