President Obama, Congress, are you listening? The states are outrunning you. The consequence is not just in being last to the table when it comes to equal rights for GLBT's.
Part of the problem is that while you are considering repealing DOMA, the state by state battle for marriage equality threatens to outrun a regime even in which DOMA is merely repealed.
As of January 1st, 2009, only one state had same sex marriage equality. Three months later, four additional states have established equality and fairness, and three more, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York (the second most populous state in the Union) are about to follow suit.
You can't just dismiss this. You can't let culture throwbacks like Rick Warren and Pat Robertson paint marriage equality as a throwback issue. To do so risks consequences beyond your conventional imagination.
One state may be dismissed as a mere anomaly. Two states is a trend. Five is a big problem to the credibility of your stance on the civil rights issues of the day, and to the credibility of your commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law in Washington.
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