Obama and Gay Rights Policy

Atlantic blogger Marc Ambinder reports that John Berry's Senate confirmation will be the trigger for an executive order by President Obama expanding workplace protections for gay and lesbian employees. He goes on to discuss a number of other options for expanding rights that might happen in this administration, but doesn't mention the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, which I think is likely to pass in this session of Congress. I'm not sure an Executive Order could supersede the need for the act, and I don't think it would prevent Joe Lieberman and Tammy Baldwin from pushing for it. But Berry's significance is, well, significant, if he's the tipping point for the rest of the administration's gay rights' agenda.