Posted on 06/27/2015 8:35:06 AM PDT by GIdget2004
The financial services industry applauded the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide on Friday.
Many of the biggest financial institutions in America praised the court's decision while activists acknowledged that the sector had led the way for the broader business community on the issue.  "We applaud today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, which will help families across the country, make it easier for businesses to hire and keep talented people, and promote both economic growth and individual freedom," Goldman Sachs said in a company statement.
Citigroup called the decision "an example of progress." Bank of America tweeted that it was "another step forward for human connections. Congratulations to all."
And Visa hailed the ruling by using a spin on its popular mantra "accepted everywhere." The company Tweeted: "Love. Accepted everywhere."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
...sure, because they will be able to off load the massive medical payments for these relationships to the government.
the financial industry can applaud immorality all it likes...doesn’t make it right.
Will they feel this way about pedaphilia?
The financial industry obviously see money in their pockets because of the ruling.....
Because they love all of those faggots with all of that disposable income.
In today’s social/political climate, would any major company dare to say they opposed the marriage decision?????
I’m always puzzled about what has happened with marriage.
In 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support, even among liberal members of Congress and Senate.
32 states out of 50 passed amendments to their constitutions defining marriage, often by huge margins.
Public opinion has definitely shifted on this subject in recent years. But the point is, even 15 years ago, most liberals who favored “gay rights” were not on board with same sex marriage as part of gay rights.
Homosexual marriage has gone in a short time from something which was unthinkable and had support only among the liberal fringe, to something which has now been imposed by the Supreme Court. And if you can believe public opinion polls, a slight majority of people now support homosexual marriage.
God is going to punish them, and our nation, with Economic Collapse.
God is going to punish them, and our nation, with Economic Collapse.
Sure they do. They give more to Hussein Obama than conservative candidates.
occupy wall street clowns had it so backwards.
Uh...I thought it was more like 2% to 3%?
This is what I have be3ensayiang for a long time. Big business and other business used to be our friends but they aren’t any longer. Under no circumstances should we support tax cuts, deregulation or other business welfare unless they accept our rules and that should be it.
It is not “gay” marriage. It is same-sex marriage.
The difference.
The traditional marriage laws restrict everyone (heterosexual and homosexual) to the same rules. You can only marry one person of the opposite sex, who is willing, of age, and not related, etc. Two men who were heterosexual (best buddies) could not marry even if they wanted to. Their “orientation” was irrelevant. It was based upon their both being the same sex.
Even “gay” people were free to marry according to these rules.
But that wasn’t enough. They wanted extra marriage rules.
Now they can marry someone of the same sex.
We never discriminated against them. We never discriminated against their “orientation.” We simply said that marriage is as God defined it (between opposite sexes).
*subject to change without a moment's notice.
Unfortunately we will be in a hurt too. That is what sucks....they do bad but yet we are punished equally as they are.....Ugh.
That’s the power of rich, vicious activism, combined with a willing pop culture, combined with a supported state-run media, combined with a major political party (the masters of vicious) who can never get a solid majority to win but must coalesce disparate special-interest groups.
Also, a large number of young people (under 40) are so brainwashed they are on the verge of conceding that 2+2=5.
In sum: more taxpayer funds will be spent and they’ll get a cut.
More government spending, more debt- Hooray!
This is how you know you are living in a socialist country.
Businesses, operating within a free and competitive market, succeed by having a better product and keeping its customers happier than its competitors.
In a socialist or communist country, businesses must make political calculations, not market ones, because they rely on the government to succeed. If you don’t have friends in the government, or worse, have enemies, you WILL fail.
Note, a free market is not an anarchal one. You still need justice to deal with cases of fraud, for example. Hence the concept of limited government.
The US socialist government, goes far beyond this though and businesses must blow with the wind, which, for now, is on the side of gay marriage.
This is also why they hopped on the confederate flag bandwagon, by the way.
Can you imagine this business behavior, say 40 years ago:
“Coke applauds the removal of US troops in Viet Nam”
The financial “industry” is full of immorality of another sort.
It does to the American people what the queers do in the bedroom.
See Glee, Broke Back Mountain, Philadelphia, Ellen Degeneres, Steve and what's-his-name, many HGTV shows, on and on. People put up with those, did nothing to stop them, especially Glee. Only thing I did was not watch them any longer. BTW, my tagline is a quote from George Washington.
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