God made a man for every woman and a woman for every man. everyone should go and find that special someone that is out there for them and stop trying to have a false, unholy relationship with someone of the same gender.
Also, the economy is not a good enough reason to justify a sin as great as this. Pray for an answer to the economy, and He will show us the right way to do so.
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San Francisco's experience with same-sex weddings dates back five years, to early 2004, when Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed (and performed) gay weddings for about a month, until a state Supreme Court ruling put the kibosh on the nuptials. According to city budget documents, revenues from San Francisco's hotel tax spiked more than 15 percent in the 2003-04 fiscal year, the second-biggest jump in 19 years and well above the projected 5 percent increase.
Ted Egan, chief economist with the San Francisco controller's office, warns against attributing the entire jump to just one month of same-sex weddings. Still, he says, "It obviously had a positive impact."
Last year, Egan adds, the controller's office published an analysis estimating that same-sex weddings, officially legalized in California in June 2008, would bring in almost $20 million in spending over two years, and $1.7 million in additional taxes and fees. That revenue stream came to a halt in November, after California voters approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Opponents of gay marriage argue that the financial analysis misses the mark. "I think it's irrelevant," says the Rev. Jason McGuire, legislative director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a lobbying group that represents evangelical churches and Christian organizations and is fighting same-sex marriage legislation. "Marriage is more than just financial benefits," adds McGuire. "We shouldn't cheapen it by looking at it just as a financial commodity."
Still, during hard times, economic arguments seem to be gaining traction. Vermont innkeeper Barnes says she contacted her state representative, Republican Heidi Scheuermann, to ask her to support the bill. "She was initially going to vote against it," Barnes says. "I sent her an e-mail saying, 'First, it's the right thing to do, and No. 2, think of your constituents and how this will affect the economy in Stowe'."
Scheuermann voted yes on the bill both before and after the governor's veto.
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