From this day forward, same-sex weddings expected to boost Florida economy

Fox Tampa ^ | 1/2/15

[SoFloFreeper]

The rush to get married matches the rush for businesses to cash in on tourists.

"It's a gold rush," said Santiago Corrado of Visit Tampa Bay. "We have the weather, a mix of history, of art, of culture, the beaches are nearby, you've got theme parks."

Out-of-town same sex couples were once shunned by the state's 2008, voter-approved anti-gay marriage amendment.

Now they're being coveted by businesses and tourism leaders.

"You could get married at the aquarium, you could get married at the yacht starship, you could get married at any of our great parks," said Corrada.

[SoFloFreeper]

Pathetic....the Miami and Jacksonville media in Florida also are trumpeting the supposed monetary benefits of celebrating homosexuality.

Guess they are choosing to ignore history, too.

God and Mammon cannot both be served. Looks like America wants to learn that lesson the hard way.

[Travis McGee]

Natural laws learned over thousands of years were mocked, ridiculed, overturned, and even outlawed. Toward the end, homosexual drill sergeants prowled the barracks grooming receptive teenage recruits. Hey, we were told, it’s their business, and who are you to judge them? Later, they could get married in the post-interfaith worship center by a military spiritual advisor (“chapels” and “chaplains” having been purged from the lexicon for favoring the Christian faiths) and then move on to adopting children.

And finally, the last old-guard bunker to fall: the Boy Scouts, completing the cycle of government-approved sodomite corruption. For a century the Scouts were morally straight? According to whose definition of straight? So why shouldn’t adult homosexual Scout leaders share tents with teenagers in our brave new world? Don’t be a homophobe, we were told. Each child can make his or her own free choice about their gender identity, but now with helpful adult mentors to guide them along the formerly forbidden paths.

If it feels good, do it. Or have it done to you. Or even do it unto the little children. Tommy wants to become Tomasina before heading to kindergarten? Her brave new mommy agrees? A government-provided surgeon will perform the “gender reassignment” operation. And if kindergarten isn’t soon enough to put the kids on the unrepressed road to gender identification, then start them on Heather Has Two Mommies and Prince and Prince cartoon books in the government-subsidized day care centers.

Smiling experts assured us that we were merely throwing off the shackles of our repressed sexualities. Dissent is hate, and hate is not tolerated around here, mister, so shut up and get with the program. Well, I couldn’t get with the program, so I quit my public high school job. As a world history teacher, moving from a public school to a Christian academy (at less pay and fewer benefits) gave me a couple more years of insulation from the social wreckage cascading down.

I kept looking up for the big asteroid, but we didn’t need God to smite us from outer space. In the end, we smote ourselves with our hubris, believing that we were replacing God’s wisdom with our own. The proud decadence and in-your-face cultural perversions didn’t cause the Rupture, but they were surely flashing red signs warning that the end was near.

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[pepsionice]

If you look at the statistics of the previous states....there’s a brief six-month rush...then it trends back down to roughly to two-percent of marriages. You will also note that a divorce trend is observed within six months....with a number of folks who appear and just say they aren’t compatible with their ‘partner’. I think at the end of 2013...there were around 88,000 such marriages in the US, and even if all fifty states go legit....it probably will not go past the 105,000 number for couples married under this.

[theBuckwheat]

God invented marriage, not man. God designated marriage, not as a contractual agreement, but as a covenant.
Governments may be able to regulate contracts, but a covenant is based on the laws of God and not man. Thus
marriage is an institution outside of the bounds of government.

It is time to get government out of the marriage business and to return it to the private sphere. The
problem for me today is that people who want to call themselves “married” against God’s law (as I read it)
are willing to use the State to force me to recognize that marriage, which I cannot do. The want to have the
State’s public education system indoctrinate my children that homosexual marriage is “normal”. They want to
force me to subsidize the homosexual marriage in the tax code just like the godly marriage is subsidized, and
they will use state agencies to punish me for “discrimination” if I decline to accept their status in any
way.

If the State must force me to acknowledge its power to declare two men to be “married”, then I must support
efforts to remove that power from the State. If people who don’t want God defining their personal morality
demand a separation of church and State then let us also have separation of marriage and State as well. If
those people don’t want any displays of the Ten Commandments in government buildings, they cannot hide behind
the Commandments that protect marriage when it comes to “marriage” that God cannot and will not sanction.

[SoFloFreeper]

Can you source any of that information. I find it interesting, but have not heard that kind of analysis before.

Thanks.

[AppyPappy]

Every married gay couple that I know had a cheap wedding with no honeymoon.

[KeyLargo]

Europe’s Empty Churches Go on Sale
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Jan 2, 2014 | Naftali Bendavid

Posted on 1/3/2015, 6:57:59 AM by KeyLargo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3243107/posts

[Caipirabob]

Great work!

[VRW Conspirator]

Yes, I want to here about someone’s libido. Yes, please get in my face about your sexual preference. Really, scream at me aBOUT YOUR CROTCH!

[Caipirabob]

Catering to and promoting mental illness and corruption of the human anatomy somehow doesn't seem like a sound strategy for economic prosperity.

I've seen more thoroughly vetted business strategies elsewhere...

2 Thesselonians 2:11-12

[M Kehoe]

...same-sex weddings expected to boost Florida economy

The economy is not the only thing that will get a "boost."

5.56mm

[IronJack]

I’ll bet interspecies marriage would boost the pet-supplies industry! After all, if there are no moral limits and it’s all about the bucks, why not?

[molson209]

From all the Propaganda you would think 99% of the US is Gay

[RginTN]

Interesting, the same claim was made by marijuana legalization advocates and it was just hope.

Also not seeing gays rush to get married in europe.

They’ll end up shacking up cause the goal is destroy marriage for heterosexuals.

[KosmicKitty]

Fabulous!!

/s