Feel the Homomentum!

Shaker Daphne emails and Shaker Scott Madin leaves in comments the news that Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed a lawsuit in federal court suing the federal government on the basis that the "Defense of Marriage Act interferes with the right of Massachusetts to define and regulate marriage as it sees fit."

I have written probably two dozen times over the last five years about how this very conflict was inevitable, given both parties' "states' rights" punt on same-sex marriage. There are too many federal rights conferred by marriage, and access to benefits contingent on marriage, for a state-by-state hodgepodge of marriage statuses to be built while the federal government stays out of it.

I can't say I'm remotely disappointed to find we may well be finally on the brink of what is almost certainly the final battle in same-sex marriage equality.