Democratic Lawmakers Push DOMA Repeal

People like to blame President Clinton for DOMA/DADT but these were compromises during the 1990s when over 70% of Americans did NOT support equality. I'd rather have federal legislative solutions that can be easily repealed and/or invalidated by the Supreme Court over a constitutional amendment that can only be repealed via a subsequent amendment. If that happened, gays and lesbians would have zero protection and all discrimination would be constitutional. So thank you President Clinton for capitulating during the early 90s and signing DOMA/DADT into law versus a very strong push for a federal amendment.

@Matthew Under whose administration did we get both DADT AND the DOMA? BILL CLINTON!!! It is easy to speculate on what Hillary might or might not have done had she been elected President. The one question I have for Hillary supporters is how gung ho would she have been in attempting to repeal legislation signed into law during her husband's administration? One may question President Obama's strategy as it relates to gay rights but one thing is clear. During his adminstration we are 8 miles closer to where we want to be in our struggle for equality than we were under either Bush OR Clinton's administration!

Why doesn't Congress and all those politicians all over the USA do research to construct a graph based on other countries compared to ours on the "Gay Marriage" aspect and they will see how we're the only ones that argue over an issue as juvenile as this. People are people. Let 'em marry whoever they want.

Gee, did Obama and rest of the repugnicrats finally realize that conservative ass kissing was not going to win them support from the people who elected them? Wonderful, too bad there is such a small choir left to preach too. Better late than never, but I never stop being glad I was not an Obama supporter. Too bad he had to prove me right. He may not be the worst President in history, but he certainly is one of the least effective. I think I need a "Don't blame me, I voted for Hilary" sticker, LOL. Obama is as Hilary always said before the election, just a man with a speech. What is really irritating is we have to vote for the worthless sack of words because the alternative would be even worse, UGH. Just when you think politics cannot get any slimier, it does.

ALL talk- why wasn't this attempted when they had overwhleming majorities- just giving the gay community lip service for contributions in 2012

don't governments have anything more urgent or important to do than to stick their noses into their "free" masses bedrooms and love lives? Whether its a man and woman, two men or two women getting married the government still gets their fees and taxes, everyone is happy and the gov't can get on with more important things.....like health care, poor people, stopping crime, world stability, etc.

I wish Rep. Nadler the best of luck!

I kind of hate that they are going about repeal in this manner, but I suppose it's the smart political thing to do. We got hate crimes and DADT repeal in the first two years of Obama's term. That is pretty huge. They won't achieve legislative repeal with the Republican's controlling the House, but they can force the Republicans to take part in a conversation that is very bad for them, and shine a very strong light on the judicial process while it is happening. This light will force a conversation that is likely to impact justice Kennedy very strongly. We are seeing the beginning of the end of DOMA, but it's going to happen through judicial manipulation as opposed to through straight up legislative action. As frustrating as this process is, it's how our government works. Yay messy representative democracy.

Progress may be slow, but progress IS progress. The opponents of marriage equality and fair treatment for Gay Americans are on the wrong side of history. I'm 51 years old, and I'm more hopeful than ever that marriage equality for ALL Gay couples in the United States will happen in my lifetime.

Wouldn't it have been nice if Obama and the Democrats had made this push during the first two years of Obama's presidency when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and actually had a real shot of achieving something, instead of waiting until after the midterms and a new Congress that will have next to no chance of passing ANY pro-LGBT legislation. It smacks of hypocritical political expediency.