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    • Homophobic republican Sally Kern caught with loaded gun at Capitol

      Sally Kern, the Oklahoma lawmaker who gained national notoriety with an antigay rant was stopped from entering the state capitol on Wednesday when she was found to have a loaded handgun in her handbag.

      Guns and knives are prohibited in the capitol and it is a misdemeanor to bring a weapon inside. However, Kern was not charged because there did not seem to be any "malicious intent' behind her actions according to Chris West, a patrol spokeswoman. Kern said she forgot to take the .380 caliber semiautomatic handgun out of her purse after she stopped to talk to a colleague.

      West also confirmed that there had been a second incident when Kern made it into the building with a gun in June. The first time, the weapon got through the security checkpoint, she said. ''I got all the way up to my office before I realized I had it, so I reported it,'' Kern said.

      Kern complained earlier this year of receiving death threats after an audio clip was posted on YouTube in which she calls homosexuality a bigger threat to the U.S. than terrorism.
      Sally Kern, the Oklahoma lawmaker who gained national notoriety with an antigay rant was stopped from entering the state capitol on We... more

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    • Tory councillor charged with having gay sex in a public toilet

      A Conservative councillor in Harrow has appeared in court charged with engaging in sexual activity in a public lavatory.

      Robert Benson did not enter a plea at Harrow Magistrates' Court last week. He has been suspended from the party but remains a councillor. Council leader David Ashton told the Harrow Observer:

      "Firstly, this is a matter for the courts. Secondly, as Conservative group leader, I have suspended Councillor Benson from the group.

      "If somebody is charged with a criminal offence, they are suspended as part of our standard procedure."

      Mr Benson, 41, is accused of giving oral sex to another man in a public toilet in south Harrow on June 25th. He was arrested and bailed until July 8th, when he was charged. A 56-year-old from Essex man was issued with a caution. Mr Benson's case will be heard on 30th July at Wimbledon Magistrates Court.

      Oops! Methinks the Tories doth protest about homosexuality too much...? http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/jun/09/immigrat...

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    • Jack Barrowman takes gay test

      The openly-gay Torchwood star is subjected to a set of experiments in BBC1's The Making of Me to determine whether he was born homosexual or if his sexuality was determined by his environment.

      And following the tests, the I'd Do Anything Judge has urged the parents of homosexuals to watch the programme in order to gain a greater understanding of their children.

      Speaking live from Los Angeles this morning on GMTV, for rival breakfast news company ITV1, Jack would not be drawn to give away the experiments outcome before broadcast on July 24th, but did hint that regardless of nature or nuture homosexuality was something that was unavoidable.
      The openly-gay Torchwood star is subjected to a set of experiments in BBC1's The Making of Me to determine whether he was born homosex... more

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    • Top 25 men who look like old lesbians

      This list is a little irreverent, but I can see it.

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    • Gay club bans drag queens

      Crews Inn, a gay bar in Dallas, instituted a policy on July 15 prohibiting drag queens and transgender women from admittance on Tuesday nights.

      “Drag queens act like they are divas and think they can do no wrong,” said bar co-owner David Moore to the Dallas Voice. “They have stolen money straight off the bar, hassled costumers for drinks, and locked themselves in the bathroom with a bunch of guys. And with Tuesday being our busiest night, there is just no way for me to keep the drag queens under control then. I don’t want drag queens in here that are going to misbehave.”

      “It’s kind of like I’m a positive role model in the community,” said local drag performer Ivana Tramp to the Voice. “It wasn’t like I was there hammered or begging people to buy me a drink. I felt like it was very embarrassing and degrading.”

      Tramp and other performers are consulting attorneys about the legality of the ban and plan to take legal action.

      “I’m not sure if it is legal or not, but if they are acting stupid, I have that right under TABC [Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission],” Moore told the Voice. “As a bar owner, we have the right to refuse service to anyone.”

      Moore also believes it is legally permissible to bar drag queens because a costumer’s appearance must match his or her picture ID.

      Tramp plans to picket Crews Inn on Tuesday night, July 22. The group is expecting 50 to 100 performers and fans to show up.

      (The Advocate)
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    • Right to work: Transgender woman sues employer for wrongful termination

      A former state employee claimed Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that top Georgia legislative officials fired her because she said she would come to work dressed as a female as she prepared for a sex-change procedure to transform from man to woman.

      Vandy Beth Glenn said Tuesday she was illegally fired from her job as a legislative editor for the Georgia general assembly after she told her boss she was going to live as a woman full-time. She said legislative counsel Sewell Brumby fired her because the gender transition would make her colleagues feel uncomfortable and would be seen as ''immoral'' by Georgia legislators. The lawsuit also claims house speaker Glenn Richardson, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, and senate president pro-tem Eric Johnson were in on the act.

      She was hired in 2005 as a legislative editor, charged with proofreading the hundreds of measures and proposals filed each year for grammar and spelling errors. That same year she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder, a condition defined by strong feelings of discomfort with a person's sex at birth and identification with the opposite gender.

      For about a year, she continued to come to work as a man by day and dressed as a woman at home at night. But in October 2006 Glenn told her supervisor she planned to undergo a gender transition to become a female. Physicians had advised her to start dressing as a female throughout the transition to help her adapt.

      She decided on Halloween to dress as a woman for the first time at work, but it didn't go over very well. She said in the lawsuit she was sent home immediately when she showed up at the capitol wearing a skirt, tights, and black boots. Two other employees, both dressed in costumes, were not sent home, according to the filing.

      Glenn, though, still seemed determined to undergo the change. In June 2007 she told her office she was continuing with the gender change, and gave her supervisors pamphlets on how to handle the transition and a photo album with several pictures of Glenn dressed as a woman.

      Her supervisors confronted her a few months later. Brumby called her into a meeting in October 2007 and asked whether she was undergoing the transition, according to the filings. When she confirmed, she said Brumby told her it would be viewed as immoral and said it couldn't ''happen appropriately'' in the workplace. She was fired and given 10 minutes to clean out her desk.

      The lawsuit, filed by gay and transgender civil rights group Lambda Legal, claims that the firing violated the Constitution's equal protection clause. It seeks legal fees and asks that Glenn's job be reinstated. Glenn said she is now undergoing the sex change, but would not say if she's had surgery.

      ''Public employees cannot be terminated merely because her employers don't approve of who she is,'' said Cole Thaler, Glenn's attorney.

      (Excerpts / Advocate)
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      11 hours ago
    • Is this ad homophobic?

      Right now, on sites like Gawker and ESPN, a debate is raging:

      Is Nike's new ad campaign, depicting a basketball player jumping over another one with the tagline "That Ain't Right", homophobic?

      From Gawker, "That humiliation arises from the balls-in-face aspect of the dunk, meaning it is fundamentally a homophobic sentiment. At least subconsciously."
      http://gawker.com/5027779/does-nike-hate-gays-or-do-gay...

      From ESPN, "These are kick-ass ads, that have meaning and make basketball sense without injecting any homophobia into the conversation. Getting humiliated like that is "just wrong," in a basketball sense, without the male on male interpretation. Pretend the genders were scrambled in that ad -- a woman defender, or a woman dunker, or both. The same headline can work without the implication that the man on man contact is the gross part."
      http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-33-80/That-Ain-t-...

      Some Comments from Users,
      "Thanks for helping the gay teen suicide rate climb, even if just by a little. Great work, geniuses."
      "Way to perpetuate homophobic stereotypes ... 'that ain't right' ... I'm sure some 15 year old gay kid who is struggling with his sexuality will see these and think great things about himself. What a positive message Nike!"
      "As a gay male and a black male, I find that some of the commenters are jumping the gun and crying wolf for an ad that I feel is in no way homophobic."


      It's an interesting question. Seems to me like the ad plays at a fear that all basketball players have - guarding a guy who then jumps so high that his crotch hits your face as he dunks. Most of the embarrassment would come from A) having a guy show so much superior athleticism over you and B) having something extremely rare happen to you (think hitting into a triple play).

      In fact, on a court, this event would happen so fast that it wouldn't really be an issue where the other man's crotch was. Having played a lot of basketball, I've pretty much never seen a player clown on another guy in a homophobic way over that type of play. Moreover, I'd say that when men play sports, even the most homophobic of us, we don't really worry about it. See clip for comic relief and an example of what I'm talking about - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilyA3s4FsHo

      So I disagree with Gawker that the humiliation comes fundamentally from a homophobic sentiment. I doubt this writer plays basketball.

      But I will say this: Nike has taken an action or event that is not homo-erotic and has tried to make it into one. See, if this was a game of basketball, everyone would be looking three feet up, to the player's face and the ball getting flushed into the hoop. But Nike has changed our perspective. Freeze frame of the guy's head in the other guy's crotch. The words That Ain't Right.

      A ballplayer might see this and not think twice. It's a pretty great shot. But I can understand why it might offend people. Should Nike pull it?
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    • Irish minister compares homosexuality to child abuse and paedophilia

      A controversial Unionist politician has said she stands by her comparison of the sexual abuse of children to homosexual relationships.

      Iris Robinson is the MP for Strangford, a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, chair of the Assembly's health committee and the new First Minister's wife.

      She sparked outrage earlier this year when she offered to put gay men in touch with a psychiatrist who can make them straight.

      Now it has emerged that during committee proceedings in the Commons last month, she told MPs:

      "There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children.

      "There must be sufficient confidence that the community has the best possible protection against such perverts."

      When contacted by the Belfast Telegraph, Mrs Robinson reiterated her views and said she was following Scriptures.

      "Can you think of anything more vile than man and man or woman and woman and sexually abusing children?" she told the Telegraph.

      "What I say I base on biblical pronouncements, based on God’s word. I am amazed that people are surprised when I quote from scriptures. It shows the churches either aren’t preaching God’s word or are watering it down.

      "I cannot think of anything more sickening than a child being abused. It is comparable to the act of homosexuality. I think they are all comparable. I feel totally repulsed by both."

      Mrs Robinson told the Telegraph that she is "trying to reach out to people" as Christ instructed.

      She then said that her comments were not made out of hate.

      “We all have the opportunity to come to know the Lord Jesus Christ. Anything I say is out of love. I am not hate-mongering. I cannot leave my Christian values hanging at the door when I go into politics.

      “I am speaking out more now because we are getting it more and more rammed down our throats that the minority views are more important than the majority views. I am not trying to alienate anyone. Anyone can come to me with any problems. I do not turn anyone away."

      Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show last month, Mrs Robinson was asked to comment on a homophobic assault that took place in Newtownabbey.

      Stephen Scott, 27, was attacked by a gang of youths and suffered head and leg injuries. The police are calling the incident homophobic in nature.

      Mrs Robinson suggested that he should consider therapy to "cure" him of his homosexuality.

      She condemned the attack on Mr Scott but added:

      "I have a very lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian background is that he tries to help homosexuals trying to turn away from what they are engaged in.

      "And I have met people who have turned around to become heterosexual."

      She also agreed that homosexuality is "disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, wicked and vile."

      Police in Northern Ireland are investigating whether Mrs Robinson has committed any offence, such as incitement to hatred, after a string of complaints about her radio interview.

      Sinn Fein, who are in coalition government with the DUP, have condemned her.

      It's easy to condemn barbaric and backward regimes in far away countries, but did you know these kinds of ideas were so prevalent right here at home (outside the BNP, that is)? Should ministers with such hateful views be able to preach them so openly, and do they really represent the majority, as they claim to? If anti-hate legislation wasn't created to protect people from this kind of abuse then what is it there for?

      A controversial Unionist politician has said she stands by her comparison of the sexual abuse of children to homosexual relationships.... more

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    • Man overboard on gay cruise rescued, then shot, by police

      A man who fell overboard from a gay cruise yacht was shot dead when he fought the police officers who had rescued him, according to news reports.

      Steven Paul Hirschfield, 37, of Los Angeles had been at a yacht party, part of last weekend’s San Diego Pride celebrations, when he fell off the 222-ft vessel into San Diego Bay, reports the San Diego Union Tribune.

      The Harbour Police were called and a police boat found Hirschfield about 500 ft south of the US Coast Guard Air Station.

      Hirschfield boarded the boat and began fighting the two officers on board, knocking one to the deck. He then grabbed the officer’s taser gun and began striking him in the face with it. According to the Harbour Police report, Hirschfield then tried to take the officer’s firearm. As the two struggled over the gun, the second officer shot Hirschfield in the upper body, killing him.

      The injured officer was taken to hospital with face and leg injuries.

      San Diego Police are investigating the incident.
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    • 75% of Americans want to allow openly gay people in the military

      A new survey by the Washington Post and ABC News has found that three-quarters of Americans think that openly gay, lesbian and bisexual people should be allowed to serve in the military.

      64% of Republicans and nearly two thirds of self-described conservatives backed a change in the current law, as did 57% of white evangelical Protestants and 82% of white Catholics.

      It was Republican opposition that forced then-President Bill Clinton to abandon his pledge to allow gay people to serve and signed into law the compromise known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

      Since 1993 gay people who do not reveal their sexuality can serve, and commanding officers are not meant to ask service personnel about their sexual orientation.

      More than 12,000 gay men and women have been discharged under the current law, at an estimated cost of more than $363 million (£182.6m).

      The new poll of 1,119 Americans, taken earlier this month, shows how support for gays in the military has steadily increased, from 44% in 1993 to 62% in 2001 to 75% today.

      The current policy prohibits anyone who "demonstrates a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts" to serve in the US Armed Forces.

      An estimated 65,000 lesbian and gay service members serve on active duty and in the reserves of the United States military, according to gay advocacy group the Servicemembers Legal Defence Network.

      It said it knows of about 500 gay army members who are serving openly without any consequences.

      In March US Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama told leading gay publication The Advocate he supports a repeal of the gay ban and is hopeful it can be achieved.

      His Republican opponent John McCain does not favour gays serving openly.

      With 75% of the population in support, is it time for the American military to finally change its policy?
      A new survey by the Washington Post and ABC News has found that three-quarters of Americans think that openly gay, lesbian and bisexua... more

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    • McDonald's getting flack for supporting "the homosexual agenda"

      Let me get this straight, McDonald's knowingly contributes to the obesity epidemic, plays an active role in helping squelch this nation's agriculutre systems, practices substandard beef and food health regulations, bioengineers food with unknown repurcussions, and yet the masses line up en masse to collect a coke, a smile, and a plastic happy meal toy.

      Yet they support equal rights for other human beings who happen to be gay or lesbian and suddenly feathers are ruffled enough to get active in protest?

      Wow...
      Let me get this straight, McDonald's knowingly contributes to the obesity epidemic, plays an active role in helping squelch this natio... more

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    • Obama leads MCain by 46 points among LGBT adults

      According to Harris Interactive, in a four-way race, Barack Obama leads John McCain among registered voters 44% to 35%, while Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, and Ralph Nader each receive 2%. Sixteen percent of registered voters are not sure whom they will vote for yet.

      Among gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender adults, 60% favor Obama, while 14% favor McCain. Three percent of GLBT adults favor Barr, while 1% choose Nader. Six percent choose “other,” while 17% of all GLBT voters are not yet sure which candidate to support -- comparable to the percentage of undecided voters in the general population.

      Among independents, Obama has a 12-point lead (38% to 26%), but one quarter of independents (25%) are not sure; 4% would vote for Bob Barr, and 3% for Ralph Nader.

      The findings also show that 90% of African-Americans are voting for Obama, as are six in ten Hispanics. Whites, however, are leaning toward McCain over Senator Obama (40% versus 34%).

      The results of this Harris Poll were compiled from 2,690 U.S. adults surveyed online by Harris Interactive July 3–11.

      (The Advocate)
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    • 75% of Americans say gays should serve openly in military

      Seventy-five percent of Americans believe that gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve in the US military, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

      The Washington Post reported that the number of Americans who support gays in the military is up from 62% in 2001 and 44% in 1993.

      Eighty percent of registered Democrats support the repeal of "don’t ask, don’t tell," a policy barring gay service men and women from serving openly in the military. Enacted 15 years ago under the Clinton administration, the push for the repeal of DADT is gaining momentum. The Post reported that support from Republicans has doubled from 32% to 64 percent since DADT was enacted.

      The Post-ABC poll, conducted between July 10 and July 13, also showed that more than 80% of women support gays in the military, compared with approximately 67% of men.

      (The Advocate)
      Seventy-five percent of Americans believe that gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve in the US military, according to a new Was... more

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    • 17 'cross-dressing tourists' held in Dubai

      Police in the Gulf tourist hub of Dubai say they've detained 17 foreigners for allegedly displaying homosexual behavior in the city's shopping malls and other public places.

      Police spokesman Zuhair Horoun says all the suspects are men who were either visiting or working in Dubai. He says they were detained Wednesday but did not elaborate or give details about their behavior.

      But the Dubai-based Gulf News reported Thursday that police detained "40 cross-dressing tourists."

      The paper quotes Dubai's police chief as saying the arrests are part of a campaign against "transvestites."

      Outward homosexual behavior is banned in the United Arab Emirates. Despite its Western outlook, Dubai is a conservative Muslim city-state and, like much of the Arab world, remains largely hostile to homosexuality.

      (Up: I guess He is not one of them! ;)
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    • Homophobes strike again near Fort Lauderdale

      The beleaguered gay community of greater Fort Lauderdale has been put through another homophobic incident.

      After numerous physical attacks against LGBT people -- including the murder of teenager Simmie Williams Jr. in February -- and verbal attacks from Fort Lauderdale's antigay mayor Jim Naugle, three south Florida homes were vandalized by homophobes early Friday, the Miami Herald reports. The attack occurred in Wilton Manors, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale with a large gay population.

      Graffiti was scrawled on cars and homes, though one of the homes hit was not owned by anyone gay.

      Victim Ron Helfrich seemed to take the attack in stride, telling the Herald, "Maybe I'll just write an 'I love' on top of the word gay and add an 's' to the end."

      (The Advocate)
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    • Police officers on trial for beating transsexual - one year after the incident

      The police officers who beat up and insulted transsexual Esmeray in June 2007 for passing by the front of the station will be tried for the crime of “simple bashing and insulting.”

      According to the information Esmeray’s lawyer Meriç Eyüboğlu supplied to Bianet, the prosecutor accuses the police officers Mustafa Muhammet Çırakoğlu and Ceyhan Göven with “simple bashing and insulting.”

      According to Esmeray’s account, she was stopped by a police officer while going back to her home and yelled at for taking the route forbidden to her. The yelling was followed by a punch to her eye and kicks by the other police officers when she hit the ground.

      Later Esmeray decided to take the matter to the court, since “this was nothing new. Passing by the street in front of the police station (which happens to be one of the major streets in Taksim area in Istanbul and open to public) has been banned to the transvestites and transsexuals for a while.” Esmeray wanted to know if this was legal. She filed her complaint so that others would not have to go through this human rights violation again.

      Later, says Esmeray, the police officer came and apologized. He was very sorry, because he did not know that she was making a living by selling mussels. Esmeray says she told him that he did not have the right to hid her even if she was not selling mussels. The police officer asked her to withdraw her complaint, but she did not.

      Esmeray said that she also filed a complaint about the police officers who attacked her this May. Eyüboğlu said the Office of Beyoğlu Prosecutor in Istanbul launched an investigation about this incident.

      (Excerpts / Tolga Korkut, Bianet)
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    • Wales police pledge to protect transgender community

      Police have promised to step up work to help transvestites and transsexuals being victimised in North Wales because they are “different”.

      North Wales Police hosted a Transgender meeting at the police headquarters in St Asaph last week. It is part of a bid by police to engage with minority groups to encourage victims of hate crimes to come forward.

      Deputy chief constable Clive Wolfendale said: “What is important, particularly from a policing perspective, is that many of the people present had been victimised because it was apparent that they were somehow ‘different’. This is hate crime and is as serious and damaging as offences committed in the name of race, homophobia, language or disability."

      “If you commit a hate crime in North Wales there's a more than even chance you're going to get caught – if we're told about it.” Police say their success with other minority groups has been based on better communication with vulnerable sections of society and the increased confidence this brings.

      (Excerpts / Owen R Hughes, Daily Post)
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    • "Don't Ask" policy hits female soldiers hardest

      As a lesbian serving in the U.S. Navy, Cmdr. Zoe Dunning routinely accepted dates from men simply to avoid accusations that she was homosexual. That was more than 16 years ago. Yet a recent report indicates that the atmosphere in which women in the military operate has worsened.

      Today, more than 12,000 service members have lost their jobs because of the so-called don't ask, don't tell law. A disproportionate number of those discharges are women, according to statistics gathered by the Washington-based Servicemembers' Legal Defense Network from the government under the Freedom of Information Act, and released to the public June 23.

      "'Don't ask, don't tell' is clearly a women's issue," said Dunning, who is on the board of the Servicemembers' Legal Defense Network. Upon her retirement in 2007 from the Naval Reserves, she was the only openly gay person to serve in the military.

      This vast difference between the numbers of women discharged from the military may add impetus to those calling for an end to the "don't ask" law.

      The problem for women has worsened in recent years, the data gathered by the service members' network indicate. In fiscal 2006, women made up 17 percent of the Army but 35 percent of discharges under the "don't ask" law. One year later, women were 15 percent of Army members, yet discharges of women increased to 45 percent of the total.

      Dunning, who stated publicly in 1993 that she was a lesbian, stayed in the military despite the passage later that year of the "don't ask, don't tell" law requiring members of the military to hide their sexual orientation. The law was characterized by then-president Bill Clinton as a "compromise" from his promise to end the ban on gays serving in the military.

      "Don't ask" wasn't a compromise at all, says Cathy Westcott of the service members' network. Before the law, the status of gays in the military was left to the discretion of the commander in chief; after the law, there was a mandate to discharge them. And by singling out homosexuality as a reason for discharge, the law has actually increased discrimination against gays in the military, especially women, Dunning added.

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    • Father tries to beat the 'gayness' out of own son with baseball bat

      "An Anderson, South Carolina man is being investigated for assault and potential hate crime charges after beating his son on two separate occasions following a pride parade on Sunday. Yes, this is in the same state that just ran out on its credit to an advertising agency after running thousands of “South Carolina is so gay” ads, leaving a pride group in the state to volunteer to pick up the check.

      The 49-year-old man greeted his son in the street after the boy had returned from the Anderson pride parade, already in a fit of rage. He commenced striking his own son with a baseball bat while cursing, praying, and “casting the demon of homosexuality” out of his 18-year old."
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    • 2010 census won't count gay marriages

      Although gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts and California, census officials say that same-sex partners in both states who list themselves as spouses will be recorded as "unmarried partners" -- just as they were in the 2000 census.
      Census Bureau spokesman Stephen Buckner cited the Defense of Marriage Act, approved by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing as a marriage the union of anyone but a man and a woman.

      The law "requires all federal agencies to recognize only opposite-sex marriages for the purposes of administering federal programs," Buckner wrote in an e-mailed statement. "Many of these programs rely on Census Bureau statistics."

      Census officials have said the agency will retain same-sex spouses' original responses but will edit them for the published census tabulations.

      Critics of the policy -- and the law -- say it ignores the changing legal and political landscape in states that contain about 14 percent of the U.S. population. And it ensures that the census results will be factually incorrect, they say.
      Although gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts and California, census officials say that same-sex partners in both states who list th... more

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