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AP Source: Dems move to formally back gay marriage - Boston.com
The Democratic Party is moving to include support for gay marriage in the official party platform for the first time, a Democratic official said Monday, marking a key milestone for advocates of same-sex unions.
It annoys me when journalists do not name their sources.
The Democratic official would not comment on the exact language of the pro-gay marriage plank approved by the drafting committee. It was unclear if the party would call for any national action to legalize gay marriage.
The National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex unions, said the decision sets up marriage as a defining issue in the presidential election.
"We will rally supporters of traditional marriage to make sure they realize that the outcome of the presidential election may determine the future of marriage in our country," said Brian Brown, the organization's president.
The original source of this news is The Washington Blade:
Retiring gay Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who sits on the committee, told the Washington Blade on Monday that the 15-member panel unanimously backed the inclusion of a marriage equality plank after a national hearing over the weekend in Minneapolis, in which several witnesses testified in favor of such language.
I was part of a unanimous decision to include it, Frank said. There was a unanimous decision in the drafting committee to include it in the platform, which I supported, but everybody was for it.
I guess Barney Frank is the anonymous source in the AP story?
The GOP's unbroken record of supporting the rights of second class citizens is now officially over.
As the OG (Original GOPer) said, "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal..."
Except for the ones who walk funny and have limp wrists, according to the new GOP gangstas.
Now we are engaged in a great civil rights war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.