Gay Weddings Boost CA Economy!

[3113]

I wonder if this is the way to get other states to change their minds?

Forget economic stimulus checks. Same-sex marriages may give California just the financial boost it needs. Wedding planners, bakers and hotels began booking more business almost immediately after the state Supreme Court's May 15 decision overturning a ban on gay marriage. Citing pent-up demand, one UCLA study projects that same-sex unions could provide a $370-million shot in the arm to the state economy over the next three years.

"Being in West Hollywood, we've been inundated," said Tom Rosa, owner of the Cake and Art bakery on Santa Monica Boulevard. "After the ruling, the phone really picked up."Rosa said couples who had waited for decades to legally marry were splurging on 5-foot-tall confections shaped like carousels and cakes featuring handcrafted birds of paradise.

Mike Standifer and Marc Hammer were already planning a commitment ceremony for October, but when the court ruling came out, they decided to throw an even bigger bash and get married. They plan on spending about $25,000, which includes renovations on their Hollywood home so they can have the party in their backyard. The new price tag includes rings, their suits and those of their wedding party, and the cost of flying in Standifer's priest from Tennessee -- all costs they wouldn't have incurred if they were just having a party.

"The wedding dynamic in the last two weeks changed everything," Standifer said. The wedding businesses he's worked with so far seem thrilled. "I think it's because the economy's not so great, but the vendors have been treating us like royalty," he said.

By some estimates, weddings and commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples generate $1 billion a year in revenue.

Rest of the article can be found here: Gay Marriage Economy

Here's my question: As I understand it, these licenses will stand even if California votes in an amendment against future gay marriages. Um...how can you still be legally married if it's illegal for gays to be married? I mean, I can understand if an action is made illegal like taking LSD--was legal, now it isn't, but marriage isn't an action that's done over and over again. It's done and lasts, well, till death or divorce. So...

 

[Guest]

If it boosts the economy, I can see every single person running for an office to find some way to promote it.

They'll get around reversing their political platform, somehow.

How telling that it will be money, not religion, that will finally cause this issue to be positively voted through the states.

 

[Stella_Omega]

If it boosts the economy, I can see every single person running for an office to find some way to promote it.

They'll get around reversing their political platform, somehow.

How telling that it will be money, not religion, that will finally cause this issue to be positively voted through the states.

I imagine the hotel industry will be doing noticeably better as well, because CA has no residency requirement for marriages, and some states recognise same-sex marriages for out of state-- even though they don't allow them to take place.

 

[3113]

I imagine the hotel industry will be doing noticeably better as well, because CA has no residency requirement for marriages, and some states recognise same-sex marriages for out of state-- even though they don't allow them to take place.

Mentioned in the article. Our tourist industry is gonna really boom over the next four months.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Mentioned in the article. Our tourist industry is gonna really boom over the next four months.

Our church council has already authorized our pastor to perform same-sex marriages. Any interested, PM me.

 

[3113]

Sad to say, an anti-gay marriage amendment will be on the November Ballot in CA. And, unfortunately:

"The people who want to defeat the amendment are going to have to work very hard to be successful — harder than the people who want the amendment to pass," said Charles Gossett, a California State University-Pomona political scientist who has analyzed a decades worth of poll numbers on the issue.

Here's hoping that the boon in tourism, etc. will sway people to vote this amendment down.

 

[DesertPirate]

Sad to say, an anti-gay marriage amendment will be on the November Ballot in CA. And, unfortunately:

Here's hoping that the boon in tourism, etc. will sway people to vote this amendment down.

I suspect on this issue people will vote their beliefs more than their wallet

 

[rgraham666]

I'd say they're going to vote more on their fear and hate than their beliefs.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Hangings were very popular a century ago. Every event attracted huge crowds. Afterwards a deputy chopped the rope into pieces and sold them as souvenirs. Hangings fascinated people just as child brides fascinated them.

But eventually sensible people concluded that public hangings were lewd spectacles and offensive to good taste and decency. Gay marriages are doomed for the same reason as hangings and child brides.

 

[elsol]

Hangings were very popular a century ago. Every event attracted huge crowds. Afterwards a deputy chopped the rope into pieces and sold them as souvenirs. Hangings fascinated people just as child brides fascinated them.

But eventually sensible people concluded that public hangings were lewd spectacles and offensive to good taste and decency. Gay marriages are doomed for the same reason as hangings and child brides.

So does a conservative die every time two gays marry?

 

[Guest]

So does a conservative die every time two gays marry?

Is that like - every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten?

 

[elsol]

Is that like - every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten?

No... that would be more like "Every two gay guys marry, a Christian commits suicide."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Gays are like midgets, always with us, but theyre self limiting reproductively. Its a perceptual problem. They confuse an asshole for a vagina. I have a theory: Gay moms all have moustaches, and their boys look for girls who look like mom.

 

[elsol]

Gays are like midgets, always with us, but theyre self limiting reproductively. Its a perceptual problem. They confuse an asshole for a vagina.

Wow... other dudes have dicks so small that a lesbian can confuse a clit for a penis.

Damn, I FEEL good about myself today!!! I ain't packing .44 magnum but few and far between are the people who confuse a 9 mil with a toy pop gun!

 

[Emerald_Dragon]

Gays are like midgets, always with us, but theyre self limiting reproductively. Its a perceptual problem. They confuse an asshole for a vagina.

And yet they continue to be born and come out in numbers. Hmmmm, you kinda just gave a nice boost to the 'gay is a genetic trait' arguement.

Hopefully we have some 'little people' on the site that will rip you a new asshole for being a bigot. By the way 'little people' are generally able to have children if they want them and their 'littleness' is caused by genetics not choice.

You going to hate people born with brown hair next?

Bring on gay marriage!!

 

[elsol]

You going to hate people born with brown hair next?

He doesn't have to get as specific as brown hair... there's brown people.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

EMERALD

I'm the best champion of gays and cripples there can be. I want everyone to be gay or crippled or aborted (except my grandkids).

 

[elsol]

EMERALD

I'm the best champion of gays and cripples there can be. I want everyone to be gay or crippled or aborted (except my grandkids).

Oooh... I want that too... except I want your grandkids in the pot too.

Damn! It's always the freaking grandkids that makes people walk away from nuking everything to dust! How is Second Coming supposed to occur with all you weaklings taking your finger off the button over some grandkids?!? Allah Damn It! Either stop it with the grandkids excuse or sterilize your kids so there can be no grandkids and armaggeddon can get started!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Actually, I dont like people with hair.

 

[elsol]

Actually, I dont like people with hair.

You like bald-women!

Obviously a sign of wanting a man because women have long hair -- that's like a law of nature and stuff...

 

[elsol]

*psst*

I like southern bald women... if you know what I mean.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Make up your mind. elsol.

My guess is you like guys who are pussies.

 

[elsol]

Make up your mind. elsol.

My guess is you like guys who are pussies.

That's a big pussy... I mean I've seen some big pussies... but a pussy as tall as guys.

Do I need old people meds for that?

I mean, I never got the whole afraid of women things that guys have, but if I saw a six-foot tall pussy I would run... even if it were bald. Though a six-foot tall hairy pussy would be more frightening.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Check out Obama. If he isnt a pussy, nothing is.

 

[elsol]

Check out Obama. If he isnt a pussy, nothing is.

AAAAH!!! A black lipped, six foot tall, hairy pussy!

Oh wait... Hilary is a five-foot something penis... with goggly eyes.

McCain is shrinking five-foot something, old, droopy nut sack.

Personally, I saw we go with Jindal... seriously, an Indian Catholic... How can we go wrong!!!