So much for Michael Steele’sargument thatgay marriage is bad for small businesses. Florists and wedding planners seem to be doing just fine:
Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and a studyreleased to coincide with the anniversary says that the state has reaped an additional $111M in revenue from gay weddings.
The
average couple spends $7400 on their nuptials there and one in ten
spends more than $20,000. “A second study by the same group found that
young, highly educated people in same-sex relationships were 2.5 times
more likely to move to Massachusetts after 2004 than before gay
marriage became legal.”
(Also, five years since Massachusetts legalized gay marriage? WHERE IS MY BIG GAY APOCALYPSE ALREADY? A girl can only wait so long.)
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