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DNC Confirms Marriage Equality Support Will Be National Party Platform This Election

Posted by on Jul 30, 2012 in Politics | 1 comment

The historic ante of the coming election just keeps getting higher and higher. The Democratic National Committee today confirmed that support for marriage equality will indeed be a tenant of the national party platform to be announced at the party’s convention this fall.

The Democratic source relayed that officials unanimously agreed at a recent platform drafting committee meeting in Minneapolis to adopt language endorsing same-sex marriage. Several steps must be taken before the language is codified. A full platform committee will consider the draft in a meeting in Detroit in two weeks. It will then go to the convention delegates in Charlotte for final approval. But the deal is more or less final.

Retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), a member of the drafting committee who recently married his longtime partner, told the Advocate that the decision was reached without dissent.

“The fact is, by every action that should be taken, the Democrats in Washington have repudiated DOMA,” he said, referring to the 1996 law signed by President Bill Clinton that barred the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage.

The Democrats had an opportunity here to imply state  their unified opposition to DOMA at the convention and pretty much call it a day. That alone would have been worth celebrating. But the DNC is taking things a mile further by announcing their plans to make same-sex marriage the law of the land here in the US of A.

Incredible, don’t you think?

(via HuffPo)