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Old 08-28-2014, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Georgia
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Same-sex marriages would add $30M to Georgia economy | The Biz Beat | www.ajc.com

It's not just a issue of justice and morality, though it is certainly those. It's an economic issue as well.
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Old 08-28-2014, 06:35 PM
 
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I'm a gay moderate Atlantan, so I'm somewhat biased towards same-sex marriages, but I can't find a reason against it that doesn't involve bible-thumping or slippery-slope fear mongering.

The Georgia constitution currently bans it, but we'll see how long that ban stands.
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Old 08-28-2014, 07:22 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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How much would gay divorces add to the economy?
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Old 08-29-2014, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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How much would gay divorces add to the economy?
If it costs as much as my heterosexual one cost, then you have hit the nail on the head for the source of the prospective windfall....
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Old 08-29-2014, 10:02 PM
 
Location: West Cobb County, GA (Atlanta metro)
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The age old lesson here is that eventually, greed will overpower personal moral issues. Once it becomes completely transparent as to how "profitable" gay marriages are (and as someone pointed out, eventually, gay divorces), you're going to see people who may morally oppose it potentially support it - especially those who own businesses who will profit from it once they realize the (current) lost revenue involved.
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Old 08-30-2014, 01:22 AM
 
Location: Jawjah
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The age old lesson here is that eventually, greed will overpower personal moral issues. Once it becomes completely transparent as to how "profitable" gay marriages are (and as someone pointed out, eventually, gay divorces), you're going to see people who may morally oppose it potentially support it - especially those who own businesses who will profit from it once they realize the (current) lost revenue involved.
This has been true most recently in GA and metro Atlanta : once the state started awarding big tax credits for electric cars and "green energy" efforts, the GA Tea Party stopped protesting these efforts.
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Old 08-30-2014, 07:33 AM
 
Location: Floribama
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I'm a gay moderate Atlantan, so I'm somewhat biased towards same-sex marriages, but I can't find a reason against it that doesn't involve bible-thumping or slippery-slope fear mongering.

The Georgia constitution currently bans it, but we'll see how long that ban stands.
Bingo. And many of those bible thumpers don't even attend church. They really don't oppose gay marriage for religious reasons, they oppose it because they're bigots, they just use religion as an excuse.
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Old 09-01-2014, 01:09 PM
 
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Has anyone decided to sue the state yet to try and get an activist judge bang his little gavel and destroy the 10th amendment in Ga?
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Old 09-01-2014, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Appalachian Mountains
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Bingo. And many of those bible thumpers don't even attend church. They really don't oppose gay marriage for religious reasons, they oppose it because they're bigots, they just use religion as an excuse.

Did you just commit the same thing you railed against?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigotryWikipedia


Bigotry is a state of mind where a person views other groups with fear, distrust, prejudice or hatred solely on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, ..
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Old 09-02-2014, 12:56 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Did you just commit the same thing you railed against?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigotryWikipedia


Bigotry is a state of mind where a person views other groups with fear, distrust, prejudice or hatred solely on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, ..
its an age old interesting argument.

Use religion to reinforce bigotry, then turn around and use religion as protection from bigotry to protect other bigoted views....

but that logical nonsense aside... the problem you will face with your argument is they were not bigoted towards a religion as much as they are spotting out there are people referred to as bible thumpers, because of the judgements they issue loudly onto others. It is even more telling that the comment you are referring to is trying to spot out that many bible thumpers don't even go to church... ie. he is trying to say people are hiding behind religion to uphold bigoted views, but aren't actually that religious themselves.
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