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Census will count gay couples who check "husband or wife"
The Seattle Times ^ | March 30, 2010 | Lornet Turnbull

Posted on 03/30/2010 9:10:16 PM PDT by Stoat

Gay and lesbian couples who share a home may identify one another as "husband or wife" on their 2010 census forms if that's how they view their relationship — even if they have not legally married in any of the places where it is allowed.

And whatever they say on that form is precisely how the government will count them.

Advocates who have long sought a complete count of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community say this falls short but is still a partial breakthrough — one they say offers tacit acknowledgment of the very relationships the federal government legally denies.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2010census; bho44; bhocommerce; census; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; perverts
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1 posted on 03/30/2010 9:10:17 PM PDT by Stoat
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To: Stoat

Thus rendering the statistic meaningless.


2 posted on 03/30/2010 9:11:19 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
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To: Stoat

What about straight domestic partner couples? They also may DEEM themselves to be in a relationship equal to marriage.


3 posted on 03/30/2010 9:11:46 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: scripter; DBeers; little jeremiah; wagglebee

No word on those cohabitating with animals....yet.


4 posted on 03/30/2010 9:13:34 PM PDT by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: rfp1234
What about straight domestic partner couples? They also may DEEM themselves to be in a relationship equal to marriage.

They don't have their own special set of 'rights' and laws that apply only to them, as the homosexuals do.

Tough luck.

5 posted on 03/30/2010 9:15:36 PM PDT by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Stoat

I’m a male. I have a philodendron that I’ve named Madge and a dog named Shithead. Does that count as 3? The plant is from the U.S. and the dog is from Mexico.


6 posted on 03/30/2010 9:16:06 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: Stoat

Then I say F*** the census. Obama can use the blanks he gets back for TP


7 posted on 03/30/2010 9:23:10 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Stoat

Just tell them you’re married to 600,000 wives, and they all live at your house. You can be a congressional district all by yourself.

Our country has gone insane.


8 posted on 03/30/2010 9:27:16 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (TATBO - "Throw All The Bums Out")
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So can I identify myself and wife as aardvarks and still be counted?
9 posted on 03/30/2010 9:34:55 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EternalVigilance; manc; snugs

Just tell them you’re married to 600,000 wives, and they all live at your house. You can be a congressional district all by yourself.

I wonder how they deal with such census issues in the UK?  I guess it's actually easier because all of this has been legalized. "sigh"

Great Britain- Muslim is spared a speeding ban so he can drive between his two wives

Our country has gone insane.

Don't worry....it can still get FAR worse.  This FR thread regards Canada, and is from 2007:

History's Losers Unite - A Festival Of Treason May 10th - 13th Toronto

 

10 posted on 03/30/2010 9:37:36 PM PDT by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: freedumb2003

Amen!


11 posted on 03/30/2010 9:42:26 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: guitarplayer1953
So can I identify myself and wife as aardvarks and still be counted? 

As long as you pay your taxes and vote with the hard Left, you'll be just fine.

YouTube - Anteater drinks wine

 

12 posted on 03/30/2010 9:42:30 PM PDT by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Stoat

When I go over to DU (yuck) they were always of the persuasion that Bush wanted to become some kind of theological dictator so that he could put all the gays in concentration camps. (The lack of perception of the nature of Christianity on the left has always amazed me.)

My guess is the desire to be counted (”we are ten percent or even more of the population!”) is going to war with their paranoia about being holocausted or some such.


13 posted on 03/30/2010 9:44:15 PM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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To: I still care

One of the many things about the hard left that astonishes me is their ability to breezily accept polar-opposite contradictions in philosophy as ‘business as usual’ and to do it with a straight face (pardon the pun).

There is always a convenient, although entirely illogical, ‘explanation’ for every Leftist position which all good, jackbooted Leftists must mindlessly agree with or face ostracism as a ‘racist’, ‘homophobe’, etc.

They’ll make it work.... as long as the end result is a greater number of Leftist voters and the eventual destruction of America, they’ll make it work.


14 posted on 03/30/2010 9:54:52 PM PDT by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: pissant

I tossed mine. Update pending.


15 posted on 03/30/2010 9:56:56 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: rfp1234
What about straight domestic partner couples? They also may DEEM themselves to be in a relationship equal to marriage.

That's a common-law marriage in 11 states and the District of Columbia.

16 posted on 03/30/2010 10:03:47 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Stoat; potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo; bitt; Lady Jag

Fake but true.


17 posted on 03/30/2010 10:10:14 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: Rembrandt

I would love to SS#’s for my 2 cats


18 posted on 03/30/2010 10:47:47 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: ntnychik

For marital status, I checked “OTHER” and added “living as interactive placeholders until the Great Hospital Opens”.

our children are listed as “Raggedy Ann” and “Andy”. I am SURE no ACORN processing people will recognize that as a joke, but instead declare, “why I know those people, I signed them up to vote!”


19 posted on 03/30/2010 10:58:23 PM PDT by bitt ("WE THE PEOPLE" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE)
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Stoat here says to read the whole article. I humbly admit I haven't yet, it's been a long day. But I promise to read it tomorrow! Sick and insane - it's so far beyond that.

We did the census and said that two people lived here. DIdn't offer any more info. I didn't even look at the papers. If they come here they won't get in because there's a gate and 250 of path to get to the cabin.

20 posted on 03/30/2010 11:02:33 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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