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<p>Marriage licenses are <a href="http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&amp;sid=1955566">way up</a> since marriage equality passed:</p>
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<p><span class="nonprint">Based on the early numbers, the District is on target to issue four times as many marriage licenses this year as they did in 2009. <br /></span></p>
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<p><span class="nonprint">Oy, the awful impact of rising marriage rates in an urban center. What a dreadful influence on the urban poor. Adam Serwer <a href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=05&amp;year=2010&amp;base_name=dc_families_boom">highlights</a> the obvious conservative contradiction. If this is &quot;insidious and dangerous&quot; as the Pope now insists (but obviously not as insidious and dangerous as employing and protecting child-rapists), I&#39;m a heterosexual.<br /></span></p>
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