An unprofessional analysis of laws prohibiting gay marriage
I normally avoid talking politics here, but this big fuss about gay marriage annoys the daylights out of me. I don’t care who marries who. If both parties are over 18 and it’s consensual, it’s none of my damn business. Therefore, I am ideally suited to offer the following detached assessment of the current political brouhaha for the benefit of the undecided.
Who benefits from a ban on gay marriage?
Paid lobbyists on both sides of the issue. And maybe a few embarrassed parents.
Who get screwed?
Short term: Committed couples who are unable to legally marry, and the wedding planners, caterers, florists, formalwear shops, travel agents, and so forth who lose a potential expanded source of income.
Long term: All of the above, plus divorce lawyers, who also lose a potential expanded source of income.
How much does it cost?
However much it costs taxpayers for elected officials to bicker over a pointless, polarizing piece of legislation that keeps being introduced as a smokescreen to draw people’s attention away from issues that are WAAAY more important than a couple of guys getting hitched. To each other.
Who pays for it?
Everybody but the #@%&*^$ lobbyists!
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