According to a report from CBSnews.com, the 2010 census will not include same-sex marriages, even though they are now legal in California and Massachusetts:
The Census Bureau says the federal Defense of Marriage Act bars the agency from recognizing gay marriages in the nation’s 10-year count, even though the marriages are legal in Massachusetts and California.
The agency’s director, Steven Murdock, said in an interview Thursday that the 1996 federal law “has that effect, in terms of being a federal agency. We are restricted by it.”
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