HRC's on board, but something tells me Jason Bellini won't be writing anything about how Joe Solmonese is trading away DP's and CU's for marriage:

HRC President Joe Solmonese said it makes sense to restrict the debate over repealing DOMA only to recognition of same-sex marriage.

"We ought to start it with what we would ultimately achieve, a wholesale overturning of DOMA," he said.

Nadler said that including domestic partnerships or civil unions in his legislation "gets very complicated" because the laws governing such legally recognized relationships are "different in every state." Also, he said it would cloud the legislation's end goal, which is ensuring all Americans, regardless of their sexual orientation, have the right to marry.

"Historically domestic partnerships and other relationships have been an interregnum until we get to marriage, which we need to push for as soon as possible," said Nadler, adding that he could not predict what chances the legislation has of passage. "We have to see what reaction we get. It won't pass this year."

It's all pretty messy, and I know that turning around the discourse on relationship recognition from one that focuses on taking families headed by same-sex couples into the marriage fold to one focused on helping families themselves, no matter the marital status of the people involved, isn't going to happen overnight. It's a big ship and our national organizations don't have much motivation to turn it around and most people have already come to see anything outside of same-sex marriage as impossible, even if it's the solution that states were enacting before states outside of Massachusetts started recognizing same-sex marriage.

This next bit is great. Too bad it means Nadler's bill will never pass:

During his prepared remarks, Nadler said he would include the "certainty provision" in his bill in order to give same-sex couples and their families peace of mind that should they move to a state that does not allow same-sex couples to wed their marriage would still be valid.

That effectively means same-sex marriage would be legal everywhere in the US, and it'll never pass. Even though Nadler's office clarified that the certainty provision would just mean that same-sex marriages would be reconized anywhere in the country for federal purposes, it'll be labeled "Gay marriage legalized in the US."

A Congress that isn't able to get a suspension of DADT discharges through won't be able to legalize same-sex marriage.