Melvina Bieri: Just because gays/lesbians aren't getting married doesn't mean they're not spending their money. And the costs associated with marriage isn't going to put that much money back into the system. That's like making up a new holiday just so that people have another excuse to spend money on a big party. It's not realistic, and it's really not all that helpful in the long run.Gay/lesbian marriage isn't really an issue I would connect with the economy....Show more
Gerardo Greist: I don't think society has the right to decide for other people whether they have the right to get married. Our Constitution is supposed to protect the people and treat all people equally, that should include sexual orientation. Just because society and religion looks down upon people because the desire a companion of the same sex, does not take away their humanity and right to live life how they decide. So whether it contributes to the economy or not, I think homosexuals should be a! ble to pursue happiness in the same way as heterosexuals. ...Show more
Eliseo Luma: True. But more gay marriages might lead to the mainstreaming of gays, which would have terrible consequences for Gay Pride parades and sales of Madonna and Elton John records.
Tatiana Evanosky: No. The cost to medicare to treat the STDs and AIDS patients would far outweigh any economic benefits from legalizing Sodomy.Sodomy should be made illegal where it isn't illegal, and remain illegal where it is illegal.Then there's the assault issue. Domestic violence increases fourfold among homosexual couples. Then there's the quality of life issue. Victims of sexual abuse (usually children) are more often violated by homosexuals than by heterosexuals. (it's like 10 times more!) Pervs just like kids, that's all there is to it. Cultures that allow homosexuality also allow child prostitution. And I don't think children choose to be prostitutes. It's forced on them.Since you asked t! his question in the R&S section, I'll add that God knew best w! hen he gave His law. Homosexuality is adultery. Marriage by definition joins a man and a woman, and anything contrary is adultery.God is not mocked. What a man sows, so shall he also reap.As for your statistic, only a little over 1% of the population are sodomites. Your stat was made-up from the beginning. It never was true.....Show more
Isreal Kochheiser: You forgot to mention the money that would change hands in the purchasing of wedding gifts, new clothes etc.That's it of course. Gay weddings in all states will stimulate the country from sea to shining sea.Its faabulous!
Elbert Donatelli: Gay marriage is a good thing, just like straight marriage is, marriage is a human right not a heterosexual privilege...
Carolin Southers: Gay marriage is legal here in the UK and I’ve heard of no positive or negative affects other the giving a group of people a freedom they should have.
Kaley Lappas: Yes weddings are a big business and Gays know how to t! hrow a party so all the spending could boost the economy. (for christ's information the majority of new HIV cases are diagnosed in heterosexual African Americans.)
Cole Desher: Here it is in black and white from Proposition 8, the effort the RRRW is making to take away the right for same-sex couples to marry in CA:"Fiscal Impact: Over the next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments."*Tens of millions of dollars* just over the next few years. Nobody can claim that's insignificant. Heck, my wedding alone was pretty pricey (though no doubt modest by the standards of some people) and contributed to this amount. Is hatred and keeping GLBT people beneath your boots worth all of that?...Show more
Antonia Mogg: Actually, legalizing gay marriage would probably slow down the economy. People are going to spend their money, one way or the other. And paying money to the go! vernment for marriage licenses would actually prove less economically s! timulating than if gays and lesbians spent their money buying goods and services rather than pieces of paper from bureaucrats.I don't understand why gays or straight folks either one would feel the need to pay the government to legally codify their love for each other. ...Show more
Ardath Templer: religious beliefs or not, i'm 110% behind gay marriage. What I don't understand, is fundies making gay marriage illegal, thinking that it's going to stop the ficticious 'problem' of gay people... don't they understand that gay people will still be gay people regardless of wether they get married or not? Why not allow them the freedom to marry whomever they choose, and have a legitimate happy life together? I asked my sig. other one time (he's anti-gay marriage, btw) so, if you fell in love with me, and decided that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with me, but the rest of the 'popular' country said that it was wrong for us to marry becuase we're heterosexual, woul! d you still want to marry me? even if it was illegal? his answer? Absolutely, i'm not going to let someone else tell me who i can and can't marry just becuase i like women.... the conversation stopped right there, when he realized the point was made. Good point about the economy, perhaps it will help the cause. And, considering the impecable taste that most of the gay people I know have, it would be much more than a few thousand dollars, because 'only the best will do!' ;) BB )O( STB...Show more
Dallas Bartolini: Marriage has never been about stimulating the economy, it's about controlling and distributing available resources, like any other business or legal partnership. Looked at in that way you can see that the sex of the partners is not a significant issue and never has been. The purpose of much of the modern concept of marriage was that women were included in the category of property, and a traditional marriage was simply a transfer of the women from one! owner, her father, to a new owner, her husband, hence the tradition of! "Giving the Bride away". ...Show more
Jess Grizzel: Considering the number of people on this earth, I suspect your percentage of gays is highly exaggerated. Since there is no other way to produce babies than between a man and a woman, gays are still a minority in the natural scheme of things. Marriage between a man and a woman is quite natural and needed to bring stability to the child. Civil unions between gays is a much better route to go and will produce the economic results as you state just as well. Degrading marriage to cater to the gays is only going to hurt society in the long run regardless of money. ...Show more
Lita Thammorongsa: There are many unconventional things that may result in an improved economy. There are reasons why we dont do them though. There is more to life than cash.
Jestine Osumi: Definitely. Think about how much it costs to put on a wedding. Think about the expensive clothes, food, securing places for the wedding and recept! ion and then licenses and all that. I've always thought legalizing gay marriage would be great for the economy.
Renita Sefton: I dont know if it would help the economy, but who really cares? why do people worry so much about what 2 consenting adults want?Theres way more important things to be outraged over-you know? Like the guy down the street busted for child porn that isnt doing a day in jail. Lets do something about that instead
Peter Lapoint: Absolutely it would put money into the economy. And gay weddings are a lot more fun than breeder weddings....Show more
Mark Hovanes: I could see your train of thought but there is also a secular case against Gay marriage as well:http://www-tech.mit.edu/V124/N5/kolasinski.5c.htmlThis argument considers the financial impact on the government of all the costly aspects of providing marriage benefits etc to those who are married and asks how permitting gay marriage which is not likely to result in children who will f! urther contribute to society and propagate the future of the economy is! worth the cost of such administration...While gay marriages might be good in the short term for consumer shops, they might be bad in the long term as a result of the cost of administration and implications on the average Joe through taxes.I'm not saying I agree with this article, just presenting an objective and potential counter argument to your train of thought - that is after all why we are here... :o)...Show more
Darren Heling: it particularly isn't any reason to sanctify gay marriage. I even have confidence it particularly is like dropping a penny in a wishing properly. All non secular ideals aside, I have not any difficulty with a gay couple having each and every of the rights of a marriage. call it a gay union or in spite of term you like and that i'm in touch approximately it. i think a marriage is between a guy and a woman and it has no longer something to do with faith. through fact the different man or woman reported in case you do no longer define the ter! m it turns into meaningless. Marriage in websters dictionary is defined as......Show more
Ulysses Failey: I don't think it would affect the economy either way. People will spend their money - if its not on their marriage, it'll be on something else.
Oscar Wieland: I think your number of gay americans is a little high. Even the surveys that include just gay behavior (like bisexuality) put the gay population at 10% TOPS, and that is not accepted by most population scientists and researchers. Most studies put the number of gay/lesbians at about 2-4% of the population. i don't think this number wold really help the economy that much. Its a drop in the bucket compared to the problems we have right now with the economy....Show more
Mozell Sponsler: Well..... Gay marage wouldnt stimulate the econemy...... Maybe it will bring more Homosexuals to that country/state. Gay marage should be permitted
Jimmie Doerfler: Fireball is right. Since this is the R&S I ! will give you an R&S answer...God’s original intention for marriage i! s His final decision (Gen.1:27, 2:18-25). When God created a partner for Adam He created Eve - not another Adam. This means that perfect partnership requires some level of difference as well as a level of similarity so great that Adam could cry out loudly, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh". Sexual intimacy between a man and a woman is the normal method of male/female bonding (emotionally and physically) because it corresponds to the design of our bodies and because it is the normal means by which offspring are created. If God had intended the human race to be fulfilled through both heterosexual and homosexual marriage, He would have designed our bodies to allow reproduction through both means and made both means of sexual intercourse healthy and natural. When Jesus was asked questions about marriage he went straight back to the defining passages in Genesis that say that marriage is between male and female and is meant to be life long. He saw the creation ! accounts in Genesis as authoritative in His day. And what is authoritative for Jesus is authoritative for Christians also. While Jesus did not specifically teach on homosexuality, His establishment of the Genesis passages as the fundamental passages on marriage (even more fundamental than the Law) leaves no doubt as to the outcome.Romans 1:26-27 , 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, and 1 Timothy 1:9-10 are references indicate that homosexual passions and acts are unnatural, shameful, contrary to sound doctrine and deny entrance to the Kingdom of God. This being so they cannot be the basis of a Christian marriage sanctioned by God's Church. No marriage can be sanctioned by the Church if the very basis of the marriage involves acts that put the couple outside of eternal salvationElder Greg(((SFCU)))...Show more
Antone Bual: I doubt there would be much of an economical effect. Accept for the marriage license itself, many committed, gay/lesbian couples have already forked over the mon! ey in commitment ceremonies for the rest.
Gaylord Barragan: ok so! rry that first answer is retarded. first off, it is no more common for gays to have hiv than straights, that is a thing of the past. secondly, promoting marriage between them (saying they do have the virus) would actually reduce chances of spreading because it is limiting them to being with that one person the rest of their lives, rather than spreading it all over the place. christ, i hope you get aids.*edit*ok so that first answer got deleted, guess i ranted for nothing. but for those curious, it said 'no, it would spread the hiv virus.'that being said, yes. it would probably help the economy. i never looked at it that way but your right. good question, good thought....Show more
Carolynn Testani: Gay marrage would only effect the gay couples who decided to marry.To suggest, as some have, that gay marriage increases the risk of HIV, is like suggesting that heterosexual marriage increases the risk of the Clap.
Russ Kiernan: I dont think so man, its not like marri! age helps the economy anyway.
Bettye Arre: Gross! Gay marriage!Nah, just kidding. That's sort of a unique perspective...its effect on the economy. It very well just might help things somewhat.
Jon Bergmeier: Initially , maybe. But after that , you have to factor in health costs . Headlines this week at Yahoo and the newspaper tell of the increase in the AIDS epidemic among the gay, lesbian, and bisexual folks. Drug users share some in these stats ,but according to the article ,the iv drug users are a very small fraction of the problem. Black women come next in the percentage after gay/ lesbian AIDS infected people. On a personal slant , I have to believe that black women are usually duped into unprotected sex by alleged monogamous partners. It shows right there that the lifestyle/deathstyle is not healthy and the viral infection IS increasing in our society. You can say" be monogamous,use dental dams and condoms" but we know where that goes.Long haul ,I thi! nk it's going to cost us disproportionately more for AIDS drug treatmen! t , sick room and pallative care than the initial marraige benefit injected into the economy....Show more
Saran Stealy: don't forget all the gifts people will buy for the happy couple, all the hotel rooms rented by out of town guests, and the cost of travel to get there. i support it just because it's the right thing to do, to give everyone equal rights.
Ivan Velazquez: The problem with sickos like you is that everything turns around money, not morality. I advise you to study a little bit of history and see what happened to those nations in the past who gave themselves up to immorality to make money. All their splendor passed away and are lying in the bottom of the Dead Sea, the bottom of the oceans and meters and meter below the ground. Some of them their names are even forgotten forever, so will it be done to the charming United States of America and all its corrupted people. Nevertheless, the righteous of them will shine as the stars forever....Show more
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