DNC platform will openly support marriage as being between...

... two adults, regardless of sex. File under, "If you're surprised, we'll assume you've been living on Mars for a while":

Democrats are set to include a pro-gay marriage plank in their convention platform for the first time in history, party sources confirm to POLITICO. The language was approved unanimously by a 15-member platform draft committee, and now heads for approval by the full platform committee in August.

The party’s Platform Drafting Committee agreed, unanimously, to approve the language at a meeting this weekend in Minneapolis.

A source in the meeting said the decision was “not controversial.”

The language will not become official until the party’s full Platform Committee meets Aug. 10 in Detroit.

The effort to include gay marriage in the platform gained increased momentum after President Barack Obama announced in May that his views on the issue had changed to support legalization.

“I don’t think that we had any issues that were controversial,” one member of the committee said Monday. “I think we were pretty much in sync and in agreement with where we ended up.”

Read the entire piece on the Politico site. While we're on the topic of assaults on marriage, family, and commonsense, here is an excerpt from Matthew Franck's review of the book, Debating Same-Sex Marriage, co-authored by John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher:

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