Democratic Party platform includes marriage equality

The Washington Blade is reporting that the Democratic Party has drafted language that includes full marriage equality in the party platform.

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.”

Sources say the language includes not only full marriage equality but rejects DOMA and supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.