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E-Prince“This spring, America will be counted in the 2010 census. It’s your opportunity to help your community get what it needs for the next 10 years,” chirps the answering machine at our local Census Bureau office. Yet the 2010 ...(back to the article)
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Here's an alternate solution:
1) Realize the census should has one constitutionally lawful question ("How many people live in this residence?").
2) Answer it.
3) Stop acting as if the public Treasury is a public trough.
Seriously, the notion that the State should be involved in marriages at all is ridiculous. If you really want equal treatment under the law, you'll help heterosexual couples end the intrusive practice of State-granted marriage licenses.
Agreed. Census should just be a population count, nothing more.
Some people truly believe that being counted makes them real. Statistics are popular because the lies they tell look like actual information. It isn't.
Haha you are equating discrimination based on sexual orientation with racial discrimination. Bravo! Let me know when you guys are restricted from voting and put into bonda - I mean chattel slavery - with the obvious and lasting consequences that follow. Nope, certainly the reason for including a race question (at least recently, certainly not in 1850) was to measure the diversity of the country.
Also, I'm pretty sure the Census asks for a "sex" and not a "gender" but you didn't say that you wanted to change the question to make "transgender" a legitimate response. Hope this helps.
Everyone wants more power for his own tribe
@Help the heterosexuals
You are right on!!
Who cares about the needs of LGBT people? The census is supposed to be a head count, nothing more. It is time to grow up, and quit viewing the government as a pinata. The candy is rapidly running out!!
You're right that the census form asks for "sex." But it's not that simple. In their own documents, the Census Bureau uses "sex" and "gender" interchangeably; the Census Bureau encourages transgender people to check whatever "sex" they identify with.
You are born either male or female. Get over it.
In case you were confused about this: the census doesn't just count citizens.