There is a good chance Crist will run for governor again next year as a Democrat.

Today the Delaware state Senate passed a marriage equality bill (HB75) on a 12 to 9 vote, positioning Delaware to become the eleventh state to legalize civil marriage for same-sex couples.

Delaware’s marriage equality bill (HB75) seems close to final passage, with a floor vote scheduled in the Senate on Tuesday, May 7. The House has already passed the bill and Governor Jack Markell, who introduced the it in early April, has promised to sign it into law.

National Organization for Marriage has apparently expected to lose the marriage equality debate in Delaware all along, since it has done little in the state to oppose passage of the bill. NOM’s sometimes-collaborator MassResistance reports on who has and who hasn’t been making a difference in Delaware:

Shun your gay loved ones on their most important day or you and God may end up on the rocks. Worse yet, there may be talk in the village.

Minnesota may soon follow on Rhode Island’s heels and become the eleventh state to offer the freedom to marry to all its citizens.

Apparently the joke is on anyone who gave time or treasure to National Organization for Marriage in Rhode Island, the group that has spent the past five years trying to block passage of Rhode Island’s new marriage equality law.

“To our LGBT family members, friends, and neighbors: at long last, you are free to marry the person you love.“ With these words, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the Rhode Island marriage equality bill into law on Thursday evening.

National Organization for Marriage has sent some pathetic emails before, but the smell of desperation is particularly pungent in this latest.

On the heels of losing marriage equality ballot measures last year in Washington, Minnesota, Maine and Maryland, and marriage equality legislative efforts in France and Rhode Island this year (so far), NOM has nothing to show for all the cash they’ve sponged from supporters except failure and the derision of former collaborators.

The excitement is palpable in Rhode Island as marriage equality advocates look towards Thursday, when Gov. Lincoln Chafee will sign the marriage equality bill into law.

In a scathing blog post written the day after Rhode Island became the tenth marriage equality state, the radical-right anti-gay organization MassResistance takes National Organization for Marriage to task for “drop[ping] the ball” in the effort to keep marriage discriminatory.