Hmm, I understand the history of DOMA differently. I'm at work, but IIRC, DOMA was intended as a barrier against same sex marriage and was signed into law by Bill Clinton, busily triangulating like crazy. His language was pretty strong as he was rallying his base. (See also my comment on socially conservative Democrats.) States sanction discrimination all over the place and the feds don't get involved, and nor should they. Not every discrimination requires legal remedies, especially federal legal remedies. Looks to me like another five or six years and same-sex marriage will be legal everywhere. I bet 90% of the kids coming into voting age think this is a stupid argument. In ten years you could spend a $B and wouldn't get 40% of votes for Amendment One in NC. You want people to calm down about something, the way to do it is not to have the big fat footprint of the federal gov't come down on the issue. -XC