Talk about defining, bottom-line moments.
When it comes to same-sex marriage, there have been municipal and county ordinances, state mandates, circuit and Supreme Court decisions. But now it’s really, officially official: The IRS has said it will recognize same-sex marriages regardless of where they are performed. The IRS and the Treasury Department have announced that they will consider the terms “husband” and “wife” to apply to same-sex spouses as well as opposite-sex spouses.