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Originally Posted by digamma
Ok I will play on your terms:
1. Increased government revenue for additional marriage licenses.
2. Increased sales tax revenue for wedding expenses.
3. Stimulation of local economies (many small businesses) with increased number of weddings.
4. Increased revenue for divorce related court fees.
5. Divorce lawyers have more work, as do marriage counselors, etc.
Just a few benefits off the top of my head. These in addition to the intangible benefits or indirect benefits (increased productivity because of a happier home life).
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And those are just the financial benefits. There are intangible benefits such as the increased happiness of those individuals who now can get married and feel as they are treated equally.
An interesting thing to do is to actually read the opinion in
Brown v. Board of Education. It doesn't have much to do with the fact that blacks would get facilities that were less equal than the whites, and more to do with the fact that seperationism made blacks feel like an inferior race and denied them equal protection in the manifestation of their being second class citizens. This is not much different.