Ooops…. did I say love?  Sorry I meant money. You know, cold hard cash. Benefits! Shared inheritance!Â
I wish this emailed press release was a satire, but unfortunately it is not.Â
The Legalization of Gay Marriage in California Offers New Opportunity for the Jewelry Industry
NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ — There are many reasons for the wedding industry to celebrate California state Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn a ban on gay marriage.
The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law estimates that same-sex weddings could generate up to $683.6 million in additional revenue for the industry over the next three years.
With the current state of the economy, the ruling is particularly good news for jewelers as same-sex couples look to purchase wedding rings and wedding jewelry. Many traditional jewelers have already started to cater to same-sex couples, including Erica Courtney, Catherine Angiel, Furrer Jacot and Neil Lane, who designed Portia de Rossi’s Platinum engagement ring.
Platinum rings are not only the highest quality, but express the importance of a couple’s commitment to each other with the metal that will stand the test of time beyond all other metals.
“As with heterosexual couples, gay couples see their wedding bands as a tangible symbol of their love and commitment to one another,” reports Gay Family Support, a gay-rights organization.
One of the main problems that I have had with the arguments in favor of gay marriage is that the Gay Left has under-stressed love and commitment, and uber-stressed the financial benefits. Bad idea.
Perhaps if I thought gay activists took the covenant of marriage seriously, I’d be more supportive.Â
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Hmm, I think they’ve over-stressed a sappy, Hallmark kind of love (and financial benefits as you point out)… and under-stressed monogamy, responsibility, and the benefit to society in having gay people settle down.
If I based my decisions solely on the antics of activists, well let’s just say I’d probably choose poorly everytime. Forget the activists, this is about far more than them.
I have been with the same man for 19 years and know a lot of gay men who have been with their partners for a long time. The real reason, it seems, that you guys are afraid of gay marriage is because you don’t want to be monogamous. I’m sorry for you guys who are unable to commit.
I didn’t realize that only with state approval could one buy wedding Jewelry! Up until now committed partners were forbidden from buying eachother wedding rings?? Who knew.
Pinky Bear, I’m thrilled that you realize that partnership or marriage include monogamy. It’s not the people on this site that disagree with you. It’s all the official gay organizations and website that are unwilling to say that is the major part of the package.
They’d rather say it’s a ‘civil right’, and whatever the couple does in private is their own business.
Oh yeah, and now it’s all bout the jewelry, the dress and the cake.
PB, whom are you addressing? I’ve been a gay marriage supporter for around 15 years. Way before it was cool.
PB, whom are you addressing? Bruce, the author of the post, is partnered. And several others around here.
Looks like you would rather argue with the voices in your head, PB, than engage the real people / real points / real posts around here.
#5 – I too have been happily partnered with my Hubby for 6 years now (we just celebrated it back on June 23 in New Orleans).
Looks like PB is wrong again on both counts here. I am not afraid of any commitment and we have kept the faith with each other.
Regards,
Peter H.
I have been with the same man for 19 years and know a lot of gay men who have been with their partners for a long time.
Notice that nowhere in that does Pinky Bear say he’s been sexually faithful or monogamous.
That’s because liberals define “monogamous” in a rather curious fashion, as GPW already pointed out.
Eric Erbelding and his husband, Michael Peck, both 44, see each other only every other weekend because Mr. Peck works in Pittsburgh. So, Mr. Erbelding said, “Our rule is you can play around because, you know, you have to be practical.â€
Mr. Erbelding, a decorative painter in Boston, said: “I think men view sex very differently than women. Men are pigs, they know that each other are pigs, so they can operate accordingly. It doesn’t mean anything.â€
Still, Mr. Erbelding said, most married gay couples he knows are “for the most part monogamous, but for maybe a casual three-way.â€
Obviously they’re not aware of the fact that “mono” means “one” and not “two, three, however many you want to have sex with, it’s all OK”.
That attitude is also made clear in the Beyond Marriage manifesto, in which liberal gays fully support and endorse marriage of siblings and “multiple conjugal partners”.
In short, for a liberal like Pinky Bear to brag about “being with the same man” is pretty left of meaningless.
Bruce, can I ask where the press release came from? Because to me it sounds more like one of those advertisements trying to pass as a press release. That very first line – “There are many reasons for the wedding industry to celebrate California state Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn a ban on gay marriage.” – just struck me as suspect.
Not that I’m disagreeing with your point, though. 🙂
Peter, more power to ya… congrats!
NDT, I don’t know if I’d want to speak as definitively as you, but it did strike me too as a tad odd, that PB phrased it as he-or-friends having “been” with the same man X years… not having “been faithful” with.
The HRC seems very serious about Gay Marriage. Cllick Here to sign a petition.
As for monogamy, I support it! I take my vowels seriously unlike these guys.
Monogamy is hot!
ILC.
Pinky Phelps is just lashing out. Its the only thing I’ve seen him/her do since he/she started coming here. I think its more than clear by now that he/she is one angry bitter hateful person.
Pinky,
Im sorry youre so angry and hateful. Perhaps a better idea would be to look inward rather than outward for the source.
Its worse than that, Out magazine declared (and this is close to verbatim) “Lets face it, monogamy just isnt realistic for most gay men. open relationships are here to stay!”