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BetteDavisEyes 04-06-2007 04:09 PM

Disney Opens Fairy Tale Weddings To Gay Couples
 
DIsney Opens Fairy Tale Weddings to Gays


Good for them! :)

James 04-06-2007 04:29 PM

Fairy . . . unintentional pun I assume?"

Senusret I 04-06-2007 04:49 PM

Disney ain't stupid...... gay money is just as green.

shinerbock 04-06-2007 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Senusret I (Post 1425336)
Disney ain't stupid...... gay money is just as green.

And gay people on average have more of it, I think. That being said, a little disappointing, but whatever, its Disney.

alum 04-06-2007 05:32 PM

Not surprising considering that Disney gave health-care benefits to homosexual couples early on....

UGAalum94 04-06-2007 07:35 PM

Well, it's sort of surprising from the sense that religious extremists will likely boycott, but they've probably already lost a lot of them anyway.

shinerbock 04-06-2007 08:03 PM

Not to get picky, but I really don't think you have to be a religious extremist to be disgruntled with Disney's relationship w/ the gay community.

UGAalum94 04-06-2007 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by shinerbock (Post 1425411)
Not to get picky, but I really don't think you have to be a religious extremist to be disgruntled with Disney's relationship w/ the gay community.

Well, maybe, but I don't think the average person would try to organize a boycott.

TPASIGEP 04-06-2007 09:23 PM

Disney
 
Good for them! At least they'll be making money off one of the fastest growing income groups.

On a side note...it always amazes me that ignorant people have this innate desire to stick their noses in anyone elses business.

There are plenty of other things to worry about in this world.

<off soap box now>

AlexMack 04-06-2007 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by shinerbock (Post 1425342)
And gay people on average have more of it, I think. That being said, a little disappointing, but whatever, its Disney.

So...why is this disappointing? What's wrong with this exactly?

BetteDavisEyes 04-07-2007 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by TPASIGEP (Post 1425445)
On a side note...it always amazes me that ignorant people have this innate desire to stick their noses in anyone elses business.


LOL! Oh yeah. I agree here. Gay or straight, it doesn't matter. Gay people's money is just as valuable as straight people's money.
If those extreme religious yahoos want to boycott Disney over this, no big deal.

DeltAlum 04-07-2007 11:31 AM

Good for Disney.

shinerbock 04-07-2007 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by centaur532 (Post 1425508)
So...why is this disappointing? What's wrong with this exactly?

I'm disappointed that a company with so much influence upon children and families is taking steps to legitimize homosexual marriage. That being said, I'm not surprised.

shinerbock 04-07-2007 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TPASIGEP (Post 1425445)
Good for them! At least they'll be making money off one of the fastest growing income groups.

On a side note...it always amazes me that ignorant people have this innate desire to stick their noses in anyone elses business.

There are plenty of other things to worry about in this world.

<off soap box now>


On a side note, I love how people automatically deem those don't agree with them to be "ignorant".

UGAalum94 04-07-2007 01:52 PM

I'm not addressing the issue of gay marriage with the first part at all:

But if in the past Disney required a valid marriage license, and now they are being more inclusive, can you just have a "play" wedding there now? Can a girl with really indulgent parents throw her a sweet sixteen in the form of a Fairy Tale Wedding?

On to gay marriage sort of:

I sometimes think that the state should get out of the marriage business all together and rewards whatever benefits it sees in marriage on couples actually doing those things: raising a family, etc, in terms of couples in civil unions.

As long as heterosexuals are represented by the Elizabeth Taylors and Brittney Spears of the world and bizarrely Michael Jackson too, it's hard to make a claim of the moral high road for heterosexual marriage in the eyes of the law.

Now, I think churches ought to be able to restrict the sacrament of marriage in any way they want, but it's hard to figure out what valid interest the state has in the biological sexes of the couple. (Heterosexual couples use artificial insemination to conceive and sometimes surrogates to carry the child, so procreation as a state interest, or whatever, is kind of problematic. Do you think I read to much Andrew Sullivan?)


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