I don't know about a "play" wedding b/c I'm not sure exactly what that entails but I was at Disneyland with a friend who was considering getting married and found out that though there are some technicalities involved, you can have a Sweet 16, Quincanera, or Anniversary party and have everything a wedding does except for the wedding ceremony obviously. You can even get the coach which if I recall correctly, it's around $2000 to use it.

I agree that it would be much better without government sanctioned marriages. Unfortunately that ship has failed.

I don't really know what a play wedding entails either, but I was thinking of the funny cases in which people who saw themselves as permanently single threw themselves wedding-like parties. No one I've really known has ever done this, but I've read funny news articles about them.

Thanks for answering my question: the answer is that they already could.

I like this expression: the failed/sailed substitution. Nice.

I don't know that it's beyond fixing. Since more young folks don't seem to mind tinkering with traditional marriage, I think shifting everyone to civil unions might be only slightly less likely than adding same sex marriage, but it might be wishful thinking.

We'll have to agree to disagree on the issue of gay marriage because I have no issue with it. Civil unions do not provide all of the benefits of a marriage either.

I heard Disney was also promoting circumcision to reduce the risk of AIDS for gays. Is this true?

-Rudey
--Controversy

But they theoretically could, especially if we got rid of state sanctioned marriages totally.

good for disney.

Yup...the "pink" dollar is just as green.

OK...first off, I wasn't referring to you, but was commenting about people in the article that think boycotting Disney is really going to impact this decision. It didn't work in the past.

Also, you're right, a different opinion is not ignorance, an uniformed one is.

From the article:

"In 2005, Southern Baptists ended an eight-year boycott of the Walt Disney Co. for violating 'moral righteousness and traditional family values.'"

And now, Disney is allowing people not officially allowed by law to marry in many places to go through the wedding event they offer.

If Southern Baptists were actually following through on the boycott through 2005, do you suppose the decision to offer the weddings to same sex couples will be just be ignored? Maybe it will, and Disney seems committed enough to their beliefs to be firm anyway.

But while certainly the first point of a boycott is to change the practice of company who you are boycotting, but it can also reinforce the resolve and unity of the people engaged in the boycott as a matter of principle.

While I don't care one way or the other about the parties available at Disney at all, I'm not sure that it's ignorant to boycott. Unlikely to change the policy maybe, but that may not be the only point.

Even though I'm not bothered by Disney's decision politically or socially, I'm not really celebrating that Disney found another way to make money. It's hard for me as a matter of taste to get excited about anyone having a Disney wedding, (shouldn't you have gotten over that when you were twelve?), and the silliness of it is compounded by it having no legal significance.

So, are you saying that people shouldn't worry about the political implications of the policies of the businesses they frequent generally, or just that people who aren't as progressive as you shouldn't do this?

If after eight years, a boycott doesn't hamper Disney, I fail to see how the Southern Baptists' continuation of said boycott would have a) prevented this or b) made anyone at Disney care what the SB's think.


To your second post, Disney has been very pro-gay for a long time now. If you're just now figuring that ouw you AREN'T worrying about the politcal implications of the policies of the businesses you frequent. Their allowal of these ceremonies really does jack shit politcally. It's just fun and lets them waste humongous amounts of money equally with straight people.

They're not issuing marriage licenses to couples who cannot legally marry under state law.

Centaur, I completely anticipated we'd disagree on that.

The real question is what kind of trash gets married at Disney?

-Rudey