Sept. 19, 2013
(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Sept. 16, 2013)
Well, how (or what) about that!
The Internal Revenue Service has decided that legally married same-sex married couples—no matter what state they live in—will be recognized as married couples for federal income tax purposes.
Hmmm…more of that superior sovereignty stuff, we’re thinking some Kansas legislators are muttering.
If you recall what you might have been doing on April 5, 2005, when Kansans voted to make marriage a boy/girl-only affair (Douglas County, natch, was the only county to reject the amendment which passed statewide 417,627-179,432), well some of the edges of that constitutional amendment may have been eroded.