Dearly Beloved,
Today is the day that same-sex couples can start legally marrying here in the great state of California. Of course, this is controversial and many religious groups are opposed. So opposed that they’ve collected signatures to put an initiative on the November ballot to quash gay marriage once and for all. They are missing the point.
Suddenly adding a brand new pool of married people will be a tremendous economic boon to the state. Sure the wedding industry will prosper, but think how the market for divorce attorneys, custody mediators, and others in the Break-Up Industrial Complex will explode! Now that commitments between life partners are legally binding, separations become that much more complicated and harrowing.
Note to religious fraidy-cats: You’ve got nothing to worry about here. The GLBT (and other letters of the alphabet, I’m sure) folks just want a piece of the cake. They’ll find out soon enough that the grass isn’t all that green on your side of the fence.
– bob