What a nice Wednesday (mostly)

Holy crap, what a day. That worthless piece of paper more commonly known as DOMA is no longer going to be defended by the DoJ! Wonderful news. I’ve even heard President Obama has hinted that he believes DOMA is unconstitutional. If you didn’t know (or you’re like Christine O’Donnell), there’s an equal protection clause in the fifth amendment to the constitution. Which was conveniently ignored when DOMA was written.

Anyways, there are two cases pending against DOMA right now. What’ll happen to them? I dunno. But it seems clear that DOMA is on its way out. The administration won’t defend it in court, which means that the courts will eventually repeal it unless Congress does first. And since the law is unconstitutional it seems unlikely that a judge will rule in its favor. Perhaps it will soon become known as the Piece of Paper formerly known as DOMA?

In addition to the federal move forward on marriage equality, we also have good news in Maryland and Hawaii. The state Senate in Maryland is discussing a bill that will extend marriage rights to same sex couples! Hooray! It’s virtually a certainty that the law will pass so be ready to add Maryland to the list of states you can run to get one of those controversial marriage things. Personally I can’t wait to cross several state lines with my future man.

Hawaii is also following in Illinois footsteps, as the governor has made gay civil unions a reality. Huzzah and happiness to all that enjoy half-measures. You probably know from my past postings that I’m happy with the progress, but civil unions are merely a step on the way to equality. They’re certainly not the final destination. Although they’re certainly not as bad as those movies…

Although it’s not all good news today as there’s a bill in Montana to make local laws that recognize sexual orientation as a protected class invalid. What a stupid rule. Of course it’s a conservative proposing it. How easily they forget that the definition of conservatism is to make smaller government, not larger government that interferes with people’s lives. I guess it’s pretty easy to disregard one’s beliefs when one is as disgusted by the gays as a lot of conservatives are.

-Kevin