Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 1:50:21 PM
Iowans are being told, just like Californians were, that there's a positive side to the court forcing the neutering of their marriage licenses. That positive is an economic boom to the state by same-sex couples rushing there to get "married".
Yessiree, why, just look at what great financial shape California got in to last year because we had court-forced neutered marriage licensing. An estimated 18,000 same-sex couples obtained such licenses in California last year. Meanwhile, the state slipped into a massive debt of dozens of billions of dollars, prompting "emergency" meetings of the legislature, and massive tax increases for an already highly-taxed state. Can we please see some evidence that California was helped?
There is nothing that says that someone who gets a state-issued marriage license in California (nor Iowa, I would imagine) must spend any more money than the license processing fee in that state. People can come in, get the license, be "married" by an official in a bare-bones ceremony, then hold their reception somewhere else.
Really, these claims that the state will benefit economically by selling its soul are a pathetic attempt to still the stirrings of the outraged majorities, who understand that marriage unites the sexes and that it is not the place of courts to change state licensing in the first place.