When is a Marriage Not a Marriage?

Bilerico  Jul 20 08

When I read in Friday's NY Times that the "Census Will not Record Same-Sex Marriages," I asked myself a question:

Dear Eric: Why won't the 2010 Census count legally married gay couples? --Perplexed in NYC

Dear Perplexed in NYC:

Remember the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)? The one Bill Clinton signed into law in the middle of the night in September 1996? That's the bill that was passed by Congress by a vote of 85-14 in the Senate and 342-67 in the House of Representatives.

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