Okay, I’ll be honest. I wasn’t overly excited about gay marriage until a couple of years ago. I was a strict follower of the counter-hegemonic mantra. In other words, mock the mainstream by rejecting its dominant cultural ethos (see Michael Warner’s book ‘The Trouble With Normal’). This worked really well while I was in school, as I didn’t live in the “normal” world anyway. I lived within the confines of a well-manicured university where one could win a Fulbright by writing a dissertation on the role of Marge Simpson’s blue hair on gender politics in the U.S. No wonder I was jealous of American Studies students. They were “required” to take cool classes and read “scholarly” articles about VH-1’s “Pop-Up Video.”
Fast forward to a couple of years later, and I’m entrenched in the real world, fixated on the economy and searching for a fuel-efficient sedan. I have a genuine fondness for tax deductions and low insurance premiums. I have come to feel boringly normal. And although I’m personally now very excited about the possibility of legalizing gay marriage in Iowa, I’m almost equally excited about the economic implications of gay marriage (hint, hint, Iowa!).
I myself think the government should allow for two consenting adults to get hitched if they so choose. I could present a plethora of reason why I’m for gay marriage, but I don’t think I’ll bore you with the heartfelt arguments that you may have already heard. Instead, I will finesse you with hard-core economic data as it relates to gay marriage in California. Ever the romantic, I refer you to a study by UCLA’s The Williams Project:
http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute//publications/CAsamesexmarriage.pdf
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