Why the Democrats Backed a Gay-Marriage Plank for the Party Convention

Sometimes history is made without fanfare or controversy. That’s what happened in Minneapolis on Sunday, when all 15 members of the Democratic platform drafting committee voiced their assent to the party’s first-ever plank endorsing same-sex marriage. “It wasn’t even an issue,” says a source in the room who described the way it was presented to the group.

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