The media prefers to focus on lack of unanimity in the Republican party on marriage, but the truth of the matter is that there are pro-marriage Democrats as well:
One third of House Democrats broke with their leaders today and kept their names off a brief urging a federal appeals court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, which limits federal recognition of marriages to those between one man and one woman.
The majority of Democrats joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's argument, which her office described in a news release as "the Democratic Members' brief," but the break among Democrats offers a glimpse at remaining divisions inside the party.
... Although some Republicans had been asked to join the earlier brief, Pelosi's spokesman, Drew Hammill, told BuzzFeed that none chose to join that filing. Of today's filing, Hammill added, "We had received no indications then or since that any Republican Member were willing to challenge their leadership's decision to expend taxpayer funds on defending DOMA." -- BuzzFeed Politics
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Very happy to see that Congressman Collin Peterson, who is a staunch pro-life and pro-family Democrat from my state, MN, was among the Democrats standing strong for marriage, as was pro-life champion Congressman Dan Lipinski. We need pro-life, pro-family voices in the Democratic Party, and not just the Republican Party, if we ever want to bring about a Culture of Life and Family in this country.
More Democrats and Independents, in absolute numbers, have voted at the ballot box in favor of state marriage amendments and measures than have Republicans.
More liberal and moderate voters, in absolute numbers, have voted in favor of marriage in state votes than have conservative voters.
Support for the marriage idea cuts across partisan and ideological lines. It wins in the conflict of ideas between the marriage idea and the SSM idea.
Oh and read the first paragraph closely. The other liberal Dems are showing what cowards they are. Unable to convince us fair minded Americans on this concept of marriage corruption they have resorted to asking the courts to do it for them.
In other words they are encouraging "activist judges."
The problem here is that these are the Democrats that are being targeted by the far left for not thinking collectively. Now I know a handful of that 60 are part of the Blue Dog coalition, the only common sense Democrats that exist.
Just hope they either get to fend off their more liberal peers or get replaced by someone who's more Conservative.
20 of those 60 Democrats that did not sign onto the Brief have signed onto the repeal of the DOMA legislation in the house itself. SO to be fair only 40 have not signed onto one form or another of repealing DOMA.