The Enomic Benefs of Gay Marriage | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• THE ENOMIC BENEFS OF GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
• STUDY: GAY MARRIAGE GOOD FOR ENOMY
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAY WEDDGS HAVE BOOSTED US ENOMY BY $3.8 BILLN SCE LANDMARK LG
• GAY MARRIAGE GOOD FOR THE ENOMY: UCLA STUDY
• GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR THE ENOMY: IT INCREAS GOVERNMENT REVENUE AND CREAT JOBS
• GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR THE ENOMY
• HOW GAY MARRIAGE IMPACTS THE ENOMY

THE ENOMIC BENEFS OF GAY MARRIAGE

However, more than a of rearch by myself and other enomists and analysis by the Congrsnal Budget Office unr the directn of Douglas Holtz-Eak suggts jt the oppose: that state and feral budgets will actually get a posive boost if gay upl are allowed to marry. And here’s somethg the ernment might nsir reckong the bottom le wh regard to legalizg gay marriage: Hundreds of thoands of exced upl would start planng weddgs, generatg at least $1.

Big rporatns want same-sex upl to be allowed to marry bee they believe gay marriage is good for bs. Those employers argued that they want to rec and reta the most creative and productive workers to make their bs petive, and that clus lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) workers. A gay man who liv Massachetts wh his hband might not want to transfer to an office Oh where his marriage isn’t regnized.

The enomic ripple effects of gay marriage n spread even further.

GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI

Some observers, most notably petivens gu Richard Florida, argue that tolerant polici and environments — cludg for gay people — are sential for nurturg creative workers who will drive enomic growth. She was an expert wns the Proposn 8 trial and is the thor of “When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societi Legalize Same-sex Marriage?

Supreme Court led June that same-sex upl had the right to marry, meang that all stat mt now regnize and nduct gay marriag. The first to be wed San Francis were Del Mart and Phyllis Lyon, pneerg gay-rights activists who have been a uple for more than 50 years. More ceremoni will follow, at least until November, when gay marriage will go before California’s voters.

And s absence n be lamo, whether ner ci or gay ghettos. In 2008, nyg gay Amerins the opportuny to marry is not only humane, is unstaable.

STUDY: GAY MARRIAGE GOOD FOR ENOMY

History has turned a rner: Gay upl – cludg gay parents – live openly and for the most part fortably mastream life. They should nsir how much ls ial an example gay upl will set by buildg fai and raisg children out of wedlock. Nowadays, even opponents of same-sex marriage generally nce would be good for gay people.

What if gay marriage be a vehicle for polygamists who want to marry multiple partners, egalarians who want to radilly rewre fay law, or secularists who want to supprs relig objectns to homosexualy?

Space don’t perm me to treat those and other objectns tail, beyond notg that same-sex marriage no more leads logilly to polygamy than givg women one vote leads to givg men two; that gay marriage requir only few and most chang to existg fay law; and that the Constutn provis robt protectns for relig eedom.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

I’ll also note, passg, that the arguments nscript homosexuals to marriagelsns orr to stop heterosexuals om makg bad cisns, a al to which we gay folks say, “Thanks, but no thanks. Still, ’s wise to guard agast untend nsequenc by tryg gay marriage one or two stat and seeg what happens, which is exactly what the untry is dog. And barrg gay marriage is risky s own right.

Ameri needs more marriag, not fewer, and the bt way to enurage marriage is to enurage marriage, which is what society do by brgg gay upl si the tent. The other is as the end of somethg radil: an experiment which gay people were told that they uld have all the sex and love they uld fd, but they uld not even thk about marriage.

If I take the send view, is on nservative – fact, tradnal – grounds that gay souls and straight society are healthit when sex, love and marriage all walk step. Now, the thirteen stat that had bans on gay marriage—Arkansas, Geia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oh, and Tennsee—mt regnize the unns. Jt a few weeks before the monumental cisn, WeddgWire purchased, a service se for gay upl planng their weddgs.

GAY WEDDGS HAVE BOOSTED US ENOMY BY $3.8 BILLN SCE LANDMARK LG

You n also watch last Thursday’s Makg Sen$e segment on how legalizatn of gay marriage will likely create a fancial boost for the weddg dtry and the broar enomy. The study timat that over the next three years, gay weddgs will generate $64 ln addnal tax revenue for the state, and another $9 ln marriage-license fe for unti.

Picturque lol and romantic getaways should see more bs om gay weddgs and honeymoons. Rearchers studied the enomic impact of gay marriage Massachetts - the only U. State that allows gays and lbians to marry - to velop their projectns for California.

They also ed data om stat such as Vermont that allow civil unns or domtic partnerships for same-sex California study foced on the next three years bee rearchers found the number of gay weddgs tapered off three years after Massachetts legalized same-sex marriage 2004.

GAY MARRIAGE GOOD FOR THE ENOMY: UCLA STUDY

Counti are expected to start issug genr-ntral marriage licens next week after the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage last month.

But the gay weddg march uld be cut short if California voters approve a Nov.

On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court led that gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constutn all 50 stat. US public opn had shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019.

GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR THE ENOMY: IT INCREAS GOVERNMENT REVENUE AND CREAT JOBS

Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl.

GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR THE ENOMY

On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society. As well as discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, gay marriage bans discrimated based on one’s sex. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support.

A study found that same-sex married upl were “signifintly ls distrsed than lbian, gay, and bisexual persons not a legally regnized relatnship. A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs.

HOW GAY MARRIAGE IMPACTS THE ENOMY

Gay marriag brg fancial ga to feral, state, and lol ernments, and boost the enomy. The Congrsnal Budget Office timated 2004 that ferally-regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by around $450 ln a year. In July 2012 New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that gay marriage had ntributed $259 ln to the cy’s enomy jt a year sce the practice beme legal there July 2011.

In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc.

Relig stutns n cle to marry gay and lbian upl if they wish, but they should not dictate marriage laws for society at large. Gay marriage is a civil right protected by the US Constutn’s mments to liberty and equaly, and is an ternatnally regnized human right for all people.