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Gay marriage plank will be in the Democratic Party Platform at convention!
WASHINGTON -- A Democratic Party source confirmed to The Huffington Post that the party will include a plank supporting marriage equality in its official platform at the upcoming convention.
The news, first reported by the Washington Blade, represents a historic and phenomenal win for LGBT rights groups, which could hardly have envisioned progress being made so quickly on this front.
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.
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"The fact is, by every action that should be taken, the Democrats in Washington have repudiated DOMA," (Barney Frank) said, referring to the 1996 DOMA law signed by President Bill Clinton that barred the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage.
According to the Blade, the "language in the platform approved on Sunday not only backs marriage equality, but also rejects DOMA and has positive language with regard to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The exact wording of the language wasn’t immediately available."
The news, first reported by the Washington Blade, represents a historic and phenomenal win for LGBT rights groups, which could hardly have envisioned progress being made so quickly on this front.
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.
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"The fact is, by every action that should be taken, the Democrats in Washington have repudiated DOMA," (Barney Frank) said, referring to the 1996 DOMA law signed by President Bill Clinton that barred the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage.
According to the Blade, the "language in the platform approved on Sunday not only backs marriage equality, but also rejects DOMA and has positive language with regard to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The exact wording of the language wasn’t immediately available."
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/gay-marriage-democratic-convention_n_1720030.html?1343670343
This is great news!
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