Congressional committee scraps financial disclosure rules for same-sex married couples
April 23, 2010
As posted on Queerty.com with h/t to Roll Call:
"For the first time in the history of the United States Congress, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, otherwise known as the ethics panel, was going to have gay elected officials and senior staffers who received marriage certificates and were married in states where it is legal, disclose their spousal financial information the same way heterosexual married staffers do. That was until both sides of the gay marriage camp started complaining.
..."Opponents of the freedom to marry hated the new rules because they viewed it as Congress' backdoor attempt to recognize marriage equality. And supporters of the freedom to marry also hated the new rules, because they required same-sex couples to make federal disclosures when the federal government doesn't even recognize them as married...
"On Thursday the committee and the Clerk of the House posted new instructions on their website that drop any reference to married same-sex couples."
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