The easy way to make $100 million

Of all the “issues” that face my generation (I tend to hate generational distinctions, but everyone else loves them), gay rights strikes me as the most drop-dead simple to me. Gay people are (drumroll please…) people, so it strikes me as unsurprising that they want, you know, rights and stuff.

Like the right to get married. If you haven’t seen Prop 8: The Musical, it’s a good thing to check out. Especially since they pointed out the very thing that Massachusetts is figuring out, from the New York Times:

State officials said they expected a multimillion-dollar benefit in weddings and tourism, especially from people who live in New York. A just-released study commissioned by the State of Massachusetts concludes that in the next three years about 32,200 couples would travel here to get married, creating 330 permanent jobs and adding $111 million to the economy, not including spending by wedding guests and tourist activities the weddings might generate.

It makes me a little happy that Massachusetts can make a hundred million bucks just because they live near a bunch of idiots who don’t believe in equal rights for all people.