“In DC, LGBT activists won by playing the long game”
Adam Serwer reports at The American Prospect’s Tapped blog:
As I reported last week, pending the results of a court battle (Greg Scott of the Alliance Defense Fund, which is representing the Jackson camp, confirmed to me this morning that they plan to appeal the board’s ruling) the fight over marriage equality in DC may be over. Our system of government favors bureaucratic inertia, all Congress has to do to let marriage equality happen in DC is nothing. Staffers for Democrats on the relevant committees in Congress have told me they have no intention of interfering with the DC City Council’s decision. The DC Council will likely be considering full marriage equality within the year. The only hope for anti-marriage equality activists seems to be for Congress to rally around the DC DOMA Act or similar legislation, and right now that seems unlikely.