Officials admit U.S. census inflated numbers of ‘married’ same-sex households by over 160%
Image via Wikipedia LOS ANGELES , October 4, 2011 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The federal government inflated census figures for “married” same-sex households by over 160%, the U.S. Census Bureau announced September 27. Officials revised their count of same-sex couples who described themselves as “spouses” from 349,377 to 131,729. They also revised their count of same-sex unmarried-partner households from 552,620 to 514,735. In total, just over one-half of one percent of households in the country were same-sex, slightly lower than the 2000 census found. Officials said the overall numbers released this summer were inflated because of an “inconsistency in responses…that artificially inflated the number of same-sex couples.” “When data were captured for these two questions on the 2010 census door-to-door form, the wrong box may have been checked for the sex of a small percentage of opposite-sex spouses and unmarried partners,” ac Image by Getty Images via @daylife cording to the agency.