This past Wednesday President Obama signed the Hate Crime bill law, which will no doubt be touted by his administration as a significant achievement. All that good will is negated today by another filing of the Justice Department seeking to dismiss Mass. Attorney General's lawsuit against DOMA.
Attention is now being turned to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (EDNA), another relic from the early gay rights movement. If that passes, Congress is likely to move on to the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (DPBO) and Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT).
Then would it be the Respect for Marriage Act's turn? Neither Sen. Harry Reid nor Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ever mentioned repealing DOMA as one of their priorities, if anything they were trying to kick the ball right back to the White House.
Silence of course, does not bode well for the RFA. Rep. Nadler said a while back he was confident a companion bill would be introduced in the Senate in the near future, yet there's no sign that's happening any time soon.
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