Beacon Hill Seeks Gay Marriage Windfall Profits
Governor Patrick and his Beacon Hill cronies were all grins last week. They repealed the 1913 law that kept out-of-state gay couples from marrying here. The governor says it’s a blow for equality, but this Globe editorial quickly points out that our solons are looking for some gay marriage “windfall” profits too.
The combination of the 1913 law and recent California decision enabling gay marriage were going to cost the state economically. But happy days are here again because now the state can look forward to an estimated $111 million over the next 3 years.
Nothing gets Beacon Hill moving like a new opportunity to fleece the people.
Archived in: Beacon Hill, Deval Patrick, Gay Marriage, LiberalsAugust 3, 2008 at 6:40 pm | Trackback
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And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: LEV. 11:10
Gay Bride of Frankenstein… She’s coming
Well, Elsa Lanchester WAS a lesbian…
It was much easier when they got married by the desk clerk at night and divorced by the doorman in the morning.
This is MA’s answer to the declining population. Residency for a year for a divorce.
Which begs the question, if the “marriage” is not recognized in the 49 other states, why bother with divorce if you don’t live in MA.
But happy days are here again…
Didn’t you mean “happy gays are here again”?
They never looked very gay to me. Most dour batch of people ever seen in a purple tutu.
We’re getting really close to show tunes here.
I don’t like Judy Garland either.