Reply #6: While repeal helps, it's less help than a finding that antigay discrimination is unConstitutional

[kenny blankenship]

Repeal of DADT may help somewhat with the pursuit of marriage equality, politically, but gives no effective legal help.
A finding by the federal judiciary, on the other hand, that gays are actual people and must be allowed to serve in the military ends DADT immediately, and would in the same stroke spell the doom of DOMA and other discriminatory statutes of Congress and states. You can decide for yourself what role that may play in their zeal to end DADT through the legislature.