Disney Opens Fairy Tale Weddings To Gay Couples

[BetteDavisEyes]

DIsney Opens Fairy Tale Weddings to Gays


Good for them!

[James]

Fairy . . . unintentional pun I assume?"

[Senusret I]

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

[shinerbock]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

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]

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

[UGAalum94]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

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]

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]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

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]

Originally Posted by TPASIGEP

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]

Good for Disney.

[shinerbock]

Originally Posted by centaur532

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]

Originally Posted by TPASIGEP

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]

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?)