Heh.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Census-Same-SexCouples/2011/09/27/id/412444
WASHINGTON - The Census Bureau reports there are 131,729 same-sex couples in the U.S. who say they're married - the first-ever government count of this kind.
The 2010 results show that about 20 percent of the estimated 646,464 gay couples in the country checked off "husband" or "wife" boxes on their census forms.
The census tally of gay married couples is higher than the actual number of legal marriages, civil unions or domestic partnerships in the U.S. Gay marriage is now legal in six states and the District of Columbia, and one Census Bureau consultant put the number of legally recognized partnerships at 100,000.
© Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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Thought #1: So many of these couples decided to lie on a Federal document. Isn't there a law against that?
Thought #2: Since DOMA, aren't *none* of these couples legally married on the Federal level, and isn't the Census Bureau federal?
Thought #3: I know that the Census people basically sent the message to gay couples to feel free to list their relationship as a 'marriage' if they want to regardless of legal status, thus making thoughts 1 and 2 somewhat moot. That being said, isn't 20% an awful small number for a group of people who, according to the activists, are a monolithic band strongly desiring marriage?
Especially considering that, though only 48% of U.S. households are now made up of married couples, 4% of U.S. households are cohabiting couples?
That would suggest that, if my math is right, 20% of gay couples claim to be married when there is nothing to stop them from making the claim, and 93% of heterosexual couples are actually legally married in a system in which they must actually undergo a legal process to make the same claim.
WASHINGTON - The Census Bureau reports there are 131,729 same-sex couples in the U.S. who say they're married - the first-ever government count of this kind.
The 2010 results show that about 20 percent of the estimated 646,464 gay couples in the country checked off "husband" or "wife" boxes on their census forms.
The census tally of gay married couples is higher than the actual number of legal marriages, civil unions or domestic partnerships in the U.S. Gay marriage is now legal in six states and the District of Columbia, and one Census Bureau consultant put the number of legally recognized partnerships at 100,000.
© Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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Thought #1: So many of these couples decided to lie on a Federal document. Isn't there a law against that?
Thought #2: Since DOMA, aren't *none* of these couples legally married on the Federal level, and isn't the Census Bureau federal?
Thought #3: I know that the Census people basically sent the message to gay couples to feel free to list their relationship as a 'marriage' if they want to regardless of legal status, thus making thoughts 1 and 2 somewhat moot. That being said, isn't 20% an awful small number for a group of people who, according to the activists, are a monolithic band strongly desiring marriage?
Especially considering that, though only 48% of U.S. households are now made up of married couples, 4% of U.S. households are cohabiting couples?
That would suggest that, if my math is right, 20% of gay couples claim to be married when there is nothing to stop them from making the claim, and 93% of heterosexual couples are actually legally married in a system in which they must actually undergo a legal process to make the same claim.