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At yesterday’s tax day protest in New Hampshire, Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky couldn’t find a single Tea Party activist who cares about gay marriage.

Over at Wonk Room, our pal Zack Ford has compiled some of the testimony from last week’s House DOMA hearing. Ford quotes Maggie Gallagher’s usual nonsense: If, in fact, marriage, as a public and legal institution…is oriented towards protecting children by increasing the likelihood they have a mother and father, then same-sex couples do not fit, and conversely, if same-sex …

Igor Volsky reports at Wonk Room: Douglas Napier of the Alliance Defense Fund led the formal opposition against the bill and maintained that civil unions would likely lead to same-sex marriage, despite a 2006 voter-approved constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The debate quickly disintegrated from there, as witnesses began quoting the …

This afternoon Sen. Joe Lieberman said that there are more than enough votes to repeal DADT in the Senate. Via Wonk Room: “I am confident that we have more than 60 votes prepared to take up the Defense authorization with the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ if only there will be a guarantee of a fair and open amendment …

Some excellent early news on the Obama administration comes via Wonk Room: Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama are indicating that “Obama will reverse U.S. family planning and AIDS prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to anti-abortion and abstinence education.” The Obama reversal is a return to an approach that is based on solid evidence and public health rather …