U.S. Census Bureau won't count same-sex marriages

Tens of thousands of same-sex couples are expected to marry legally in California by 2010, if a constitutional ban on gay marriage doesn't pass at the polls in November.

But no matter what the voters decide, the official government count of the number of married same-sex couples in California is not in doubt. It will be zero.

The U.S. Census Bureau, reacting to the federal Defense of Marriage Act and other mandates, plans to edit the 2010 census responses of same-sex couples who marry legally in California, Massachusetts or any other state. They will be reported as "unmarried partners," rather than married spouses, in census tabulations - a policy that will likely draw the ire of gay rights groups.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9860727?nclick_check=1

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a policy that will likely draw the ire of gay rights groups.

Who will retaliate by frowning tirelessly, I imagine.

taz - Gay marriage can only be legally recognized by individual states and only within those states. The Census Bureau falls under the Federal government, which does not legally recognize gay marriage as defined by DoMA.

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