Same-sex marriage a boon for business
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In light of Washington’s new same-sex marriage law, one local couple plans to wed at a coffee shop in Vancouver this weekend. They had less than a month to plan the nuptials.
As for the cake designer, she has just days.
The bustle is among a rise in local business that has already come with Washington’s landmark law legalizing gay marriage.
Meghan Scheels, owner of Cakes By Design, a proponent of Referendum 74, donated a wedding cake to Kelly Keigwin and Sam MacKenzie. The cake is in anticipation of the couple's wedding on Sunday at Torque Coffee Shop. Scheels said she’ll also provide a 20-percent discount to other same-sex couples.
So far, the discount seems to be working.
“So exciting – they’re already booking their cake for Monday,” she said. “Three other people wanted to book for Saturday.”
In fact, Cakes By Design has doubled the number of cakes they must prepare before Monday: six cakes in total. It can take up to 10 hours to make each one, Scheels said.
“You know, we’re up for the challenge,” she said. “We’re excited about a challenge.”
Scheels said she also may hire two or three more employees in response to the increased demand she expects next summer.
This is just half of the boon.
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Wait 2-3 years when they begin to start divorcing.
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I doubt the success rate for marriages gets any better if you both are the same gender.
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 @Repoman Personally, I think it will be better. You don't have to worry about the whole fight about leaving the seat up or down.
@pdxd @Repoman HUGE announcement just in! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/supreme-court-gay-marriage_n_2218441.html
Should have happened a long time ago, maybe if they legalize gay marriage across the nation, there will be enough of an economic boon to give the economy the supercharged boost it's been needing!
@pdxd It certainly would help small businesses, and from what the Rebublicans have been saying for many years itâs small businesses that make the world go round.
@JTesla Huge new development! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/supreme-court-gay-marriage_n_2218441.html
@JTesla It will huh, no it wont. Not a shred of proof in any capacity sodomite activities yield economic increases , It is a pithy lie ecxuse. Everyone I know will Not cater to that filth whatsoever. No, you wont find the world loves your filth. It despises it. Its called an Open Shame Abomination..... Let SHAME by the mask the sodomite community Will wear.....
@Zechariah Your goose is cooked.Just announced.Gay marriage is heading to the SCOTUS.After gay marriage is federally recognized all of your word salads will officially be tossed.
 @Zechariah  @JTesla "Let SHAME by the mask the sodomite community Will wear....."
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 @Zechariah Wah, wah, wah! You and your friends can keep your bigoted businesses, and those businesses will eventually fail because of their bigotry. The proof that gay marriage is causing a cash-boon for businesses, is the fact that gay weddings mean, event spaces making money, caterers making money, hotels for out of town guests making money, bakeries making money.....it's a lot of businesses making money! And @JTesla I think @Zechariah is confusing "boon" with "buffoon"
@Zechariah You don't know what "boon" means in the title of this article do you?
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 @Pointblank I'm not gay, nor am I wanna-be gay, nor have I ever wanted to be gay, but trying to argue with ignorant righwads like you is pointless... As a heterosexual, I think your opinion is a pathetic pile of phobic trash. Phobia is fear. Fear is for cowards. The opinion of a coward isn't worth scraping of my boot-heel so it doesn't stain my carpet. From one heterosexual to another: You don't have any room to feel sorry for people.
 @Pointblank Being gay is not like cancer, it's not like an infection. It's like being left-handed. If someone is left-handed, do you force them to write with their right hand? Do you cut off their left hand to force them to use their right hand? You can feel the way you want, as much as you want with regards to myself, that's your option, but I don't have a problem, I don't need to be cured, I didn't "choose" to be discriminated against, or to be told that something is wrong with me by people like you.Â
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Most likely, whether or not you know it, there are gay people in your life, and the comments coming out of your mouth, while they are yours to make, are quite likely causing them a great deal of pain. Hope you're proud of yourself.
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@pdxd - I thought you equating being gay with being left handed was wonderful. Through the years there has been a "sect" among the religious zealots that actually try and force left-handed children to become right handed (although it seems to be diminishing in recent years). My father had his left arm tied to his side during school (at a public school in a small farming community) so he would be forced to be right handed. My kindergarten teacher (in a private, religious school) slapped crayons out of my left hand, telling me that using my left hand was "from the devil." I attended public school after that. Both my father and I are pretty ambidextrous although we general write with our right hands. My son, is a lefty and I couldn't be prouder. Some day I hope gays and lesbians find the same acceptance as left-handed people do.  Â
@pdxd @Pointblank WOW, excuses on top of excuses. the ole "i is born that way" . really, then the same lie works for bank robbers who "just FEEL it is the thing to do". I can write good both hands and CHOOSE either, so much for the "gene" lie excuse. I can choose any food, car, job, clothes , abstain or be a whore to the max. Huh, No "gene" did it either way on anything under any condition nor has POWER over free will. But I dont expect you to accept truth on the matter either but Choose to selfserve excuse justify lie to yourself. Don't ya hate it when someone removes your game plans???
@Zechariah The re election of President Obama and the recent victories in four states actually removes your game plan.Your game plan will permanetely be removed when the SCOTUS rules in favor of gay marriage.At this point all that you are doing is spinning your wheels in sheer desperation.You are losing the battle son.
 @Zechariah  @pdxd  @Pointblank Bank Robbery is a felony, fool. Bank robbery has nothing to do with love and compassion for another human being.
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WTF is this guy, anybody? I thought Osama Bin Laden was dead.
 @Zechariah Oh yes, you absolutely stole my game plan right out from under me! I'm so frustrated over it! HAHA!!! I certainly never "chose" to be gay, oh wait, now you'll criticize me for throwing my gayness all in front of your face. The fact that before I even knew what sexuality was, I preferred watching musicals over watching action movies, or preferred looking at pictures of homes instead of reading comic books, yeah, that was all a plan conspired by a 5 year old to eventually convince people that I was just born that way, and not a 5 year old that eventually wanted to choose to be gay.
I love how homophobic bigots cannot think outside the "Foå Box", and project hatred without a clue who Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud are.
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If you think for ONE second that this will not affect everyone, you are sorely mistaken. Â ANY time new legislature is introduced, it ultimately affects everyone. Â
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Additionally, it is not hypocrisy to not want to have to put up with new laws and a bunch of new bullstuff when you simply want to have nothing to do with the subject.
I think it is ridiculous for people to tell others that they should mind their own business in cases such as these. Â Most people make comments on these issues because they want no part of this type of stuff, nothing else. Â It does not matter what their reasons are. Â It is just as wrong for you or anyone else to impose your beliefs on another person as it is for them to impose theirs on you.
These issues have already cost the taxpayers money, and will cost them more in the future. So it does affect everyone, regardless of what you think or want to believe.
Hypocrisy is the state of promoting or administering virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have and is also guilty of violating.Â
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Buy a dictionary and get off that high horse.
@Reeldeal101 You had the chance to vote on it and you lost.The people spoke.If you don't like it then file a lawsuit.
If you don't like gay marriage, don't have one.  Don't attend a church that holds gay marriage ceremonies.  Don't hang out with gay people. Â
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It DOES NOT AFFECT YOU in any way if you don't partake of it.
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Same thing goes for legalized pot, abortions, and any number of other things the government allows us to do in this "free" country.
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Cling to your hypocrisy - continue to pick and choose what parts of the bible you're going to follow, just leave the rest of us out of it.
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 @Miss O. You haven't ever actually read the Constitution have you?
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 Ahhh... such righteous indignation
@Miss O. Your sickness provides great joy for me..believe it or not,I'm used to your brand of bigotry.Today's society has no use for backwards evil bigots like yourself.
@Miss O. I would absolutely say anything I wan't to your face.I'm not one to hide behind a computer.I would give you a verbal smackdown like you've never experienced before.
First of 20 years ago if you see a gay couple, it would be very very rarely. Now it seems like a popular epidemic that young adults such as LL are trying it apparently because it's cool!!!
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Clearly a child can understand what a health issue is therefore leading a person to be in a wheelchair! Obesity is wrong as well and if people took better care of themselves, didnt eat McDonald's 5 times a day, got off the couch to do something, they would be in better shape/healthier.
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Many schools are trying to get rid of the pledge of allegiance because the term UNDER GOD is in it! Many stores/offices got rid of MERRY CHRISTMAS because the word CHRIST is in it! Same goes for Christmas trees.
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How is legalizing marijuana good for anyone? For medicinal purposes?? Let's have a bunch of stoners running around as if there arent enought!
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Also regarding surveillance; I am clearly not speaking about the traffic light surveillance that if you pass a red light you get a ticket in the mail. Obviously there are more then enough cameras all around. The questions is why??
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And yes, I am very grateful for the men and women that served and are serving. Those are the people that deserve a discount at a bakery or restaurant, not the people who play victims because their sexualt orientation is not being recognized as being valid!!
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Why was homosexuality considered a Mental Illness prior to the 1970's? Obviously there was something to back that theory up!! Why are children being raised by homosexuals more prone to depression, anxiety, drug addiction, sex abuse, lower education and so on?? You dont think that when a child is raised by two mom's, the child doesn't feel uncomfortable? You are lost!!! I am disgusted by what I see! A pregnant man??!!!! Are you kidding me??!!!! If you were born a female then clearly that is the way it was intended to be!!! I am in disbelief at what is happening around the world. It is sickening and oh so sad!!!
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I have no clue about life?? I have been married to a man for 9+ years and I have 3 beautiful children who are happy, healthy, smart and well-mannered. My children are taught what is right and what is wrong and in my eyes, being gay is wrong!!! I am not narrow-minded and I choose to believe that marriage is sacred and should be between a man and a woman the way it was always intended, nothing more! I do not even understand why foolish things like this make it to the news when there are people murdered, children kidnapped and so much more horror going on in the world yet this is made a priority!! People in third world countries starve because they have no food while gay people get discounts for cakes! If thats not sad, I dont know what is!!! People are arguing on here for no apparent reason!! Every single human being is entitled to their personal opinion and I simply spoke mine.
Get over it and MOVE ON!!!
Gosh if I am a nutjob, I don't know what that would make you!!! You are sitting here arguing with me simply because I stated my opinion!!! Gee, I wonder if you saw me fce to face if you would say the same things!!
@pdxd @Pointblank Actually I considered it.But after I tried it out,I discovered out why I'm heterosexual.(no offense)
@pdxd Likewise!
@Pointblank Yeah that must be it.Its one big gay conspiracy.There might be one hiding under your bed right now.
@Pointblank @Miss O. I've considered it.I even tried it out.I discovered it wasn't my kinda thing.Perhaps because I'm heterosexual?I still will fight the battle for the LGBT community however.
 @Miss O. Since pretty much all of your comments are incorrect, I am going to take a chance to educate you and hope it doesn't fall on deaf ears.
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Yes, 20 years ago you could see two people of the same gender holding hands or even kissing in the US. How do I know? It was well over 20 years ago when I first saw two men kissing in a public park. I was 13. I remember because I was on vacation with my parents to attend my cousin's wedding and had never seen that before.
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Young kids also ask why people are in wheel chairs, why is someone so fat, and all sorts of embarrassing questions because they are learning about their world. How do I know? I have two children, grew up babysitting many others, took Child Development in college, and have read many parenting and child development texts and articles.
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I'm assuming when you say "What happened to GOD in the flag salute?" you meant what happened to the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. And if that is the case that confuses me because according to the US Flag Code "under God" is still included in the Pledge of Allegiance. It actually wasn't in the original pledge, it was officially added in 1954 by a Joint Resolution of Congress. In 2002 Congress (both House of Reps and Senate) approved bills REAFFIRMING the reference to "one Nation under God" as an official part of the Pledge of Allegiance. Each daily session of Congress starts with the Pledge of Allegiance. All of this you can verify on your own. And as the mother of a boy scout, I can assure you "under God" is still actively used outside of government.
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Marijuana was legally voted into law in certain states--how is that taking a freedom away?Â
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And as far as "surveillance all over the roads you drive on" goes, are you referring to the police officers who patrol the roads or red light cameras that some cities/counties have legally adopted? Red light cameras only record those who may have violated the law (which triggered the camera). If you don't want to risk getting recorded, don't come close to running a red light. Or are you referring to businesses and private citizens having security cameras to mitigate against theft?
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Lastly, I want to say that I am offended you claim the US isn't a free country. In my opinion you are being very disrespectful to every service man and woman who have served and still serve; people who have risked their lives to protect the very freedoms you claim you don't have. The first amendment guarantees you the right to say "Merry Christmas" and to call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree; just as others have the right to call them "holiday trees" or "pine scented fire hazards." My husband, who served this country in the First Gulf War as a Marine, would just shake his head at your ignorance; it makes me incredibly sad.Â
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 @Pointblank  @Miss O. I'm not gay , I'm not "considering it", I've never been divorced or cheated on my wife. I served in the Marines, graduated from college, own property, own a small business, send my kid to a private Catholic school.
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I think you're fighting a losing battle because you're an ignorant freedom-hating idiot. I call it as I see it. Sic Semper Tyrannis
@Miss O. "I am disgusted that my 7 year old sees two men holding hands and asks me why!!"
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Maybe people are disgusted by you. Statistically, your kids are fat. Maybe your fat kids are disgusting too. Obesity is an epidemic. Shouldn't fat people be kept off the streets because it's disgusting? Moms with overweight children are absolutely, criminally disgusting.
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Of course I'm just kidding, but, seriously, ignorant people should be kept off the streets. Christmas Trees are a product of GERMANY, not CHRISTIANITY. Technically, it's a tennenbaum but that's FAR too complicated of a term for the lowest-common-demoninator mentality you have to have to appeal to mass America.
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"God" in the flag salute didn't even appear until after World War II.Â
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How is allowing gays to marry taking away your freedom?
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 @Miss O. Anybody who has ever had a divorce, an affair or otherwise broken a wedding vow cannot fairly comment on the sanctity of marriage but most Americans have.
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As a heterosexual, married American who has honored my vows and never divorced, I say this:Â YOU don't get to tell ME what marriage is. If YOU attempt to restrict MY belief of what marriage is, you better be Jesus Christ yourself or otherwise your opinion is hostile to my intelligence and my liberty, and I will regard you with equal hostility and contempt.
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As long as divorce is legal, homosexual marriage should be legal. Period.
 @Pointblank People don't "consider" being gay, it is not the same as considering a career change.Â
 @noneofyourbizzness I know you're not gay, but I'd love you regardless.
 @Miss O. How is Christmas, God, weed impacting freedom? People can believe in Christmas or not believe. People can believe in God or not. People can smoke weed, or not. That my dear is freedom.
 @Miss O. Don't bad mouth my buddy @noneofyourbizzness You clearly have no clue about life, and I feel bad for your 7 year old, I just hope they survive your narrow-minded bigotry.
 @Miss O. I believe it was your good ol' boy Georgie Bush that implemented so much of the surveillance. And with this being a free country, people can say Merry Christmas if they wish, or they can say, happy holidays. Freedom is giving people options, not forcing them to only have 1 choice.
 @Miss O. Just because gays can legally get married, doesn't mean all the heterosexuals in the state are deemed infertile. You my dear, have no clue.
@Pointblank "most of these people seem to be gay or are considering it" It really chafes you that so many heterosexuals fully support same sex marriage doesnât it? In the past we had race traitors, so in your mind are we orientation traitors? The majority voted, and you can't have that without a lot hetero's on board.
 @Miss O. Easy on the punctuation there, Miss. O.  You're going to run out of exclamation points!!!!!
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But they do render your argument that much more believable. Â I know I was persuaded.
 @noneofyourbizzness No, they have been deleted by the gay people who work at KATU
   @Miss O. I agree with you. It is wrong for people of the same sex to marry. I think you are fighting a losing battle on this site because most of these people seem to be gay or are considering it.
@Miss O. "You are most likely gay" Who cares? You are most likely a bigot.Why do you hate gay people so much?
@Miss O. "God and weed" lol.You are a nutjob!
@Miss O. Have you noticed the comments that have been deleted? That is because "free speech" is not allowed on a privately owned website.
Look at all the mistakes (6) you made in your previous statement and then speak!!! And btw read this:
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Yes people are nuts!!!
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Also in reference to the comments I made about Christmas, God and weed... I simply stated that freedom is going down the shi*&er and people like you are too dumb to realize it!!!
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You are most likely gay therefore are supporting this article/restaurant!!!
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@Miss O. You scream about a free country Untill you see two men holding hands.You my dear are a hypocrite.
@Miss O. "incase you have notices" What in the hell is that supposed to mean?
@Miss O. What in the hell does gay marriage have to do with Christmas?The bottom line is that you lost the election so deal with it.Maybe if you would have tried a little harder you would have won but you didn't so get off your cross we need the wood.
@noneofyourbizzness btw seems like you have no life outside of the internet and posting negative comments in regards to people's opinions!! Get over youself and allow people the freedom of speech!!!
Your grammar/spelling is a fail!!! Homosexuality is all over the place. 20 years ago you would not see what you see today!!! I am disgusted that my 7 year old sees two men holding hands and asks me why!!!
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And in regards to the US being a FREE COUNTRY, what happened to MERRY CHRISTMAS? What happened to GOD in the flag salute?? Why are Christmas trees being referred to as holiday trees??? Why is weed legal?? Why is there so much surveillance all over the roads you drive on?? Why???
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Incase you have notices, your freedom is slowly being taken away and the sad part is people do not realize it!!!
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@Miss O. Fail! Heyerosexual will always exsist and homosexuals will always remain a small minority.What a asinine comment.BTW Private businesses can offer discounts to anyone the choose.Who are you to dictate to them how to run their businesses.If you don't like their business decsions, no one is forcing you to spend your money there.Also humans will never marry objects or animals.Dont be ridiculous.
 @Miss O. I do not understand how my opinion affects you. I'm simply typing what I believe and how these laws are in no way altering the US Constitution. Instead of wasting your time arguing with me, why don't you go read the US Constitution and think it through whether the items you mentioned are even touched upon.
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To be honest, you lost me on that "think it through whether the human race would exist if people were homosexual" because I'm not advocating that people be homosexual. I just don't have a problem with it. If anything I'm advocating people be who they are. Some heterosexuals won't have kids, that's ok I'll try to pick up the slack.
I do not understand how my opinion affects you?!!! Im simply speaking what I believe and how laws are being enforced that go against natural cycle of humanity!!! Instead of wasting your time arguing with me, why don't you look up the definition of marriage and think it through whether the human race would exist if people were homosexual and if there would be no pro-creation!
 @Miss O. So your definition of narrowminded is someone who has read the U.S. Constitution? Making silly statements claiming that a laws in one state is somehow "messing with the constitution" shows... hmm it shows something, but I don't think "narrowminded" is the correct term. What term am I looking for... oh ignorant! That's the word I'm looking for. Wait, or was it uninformed, no, pretty sure the word I wanted was ignorant.
 @Miss O. I'll take that as a "NO". Since you know about Google, please look up "The United States Constitution" and read it.
A marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN! Homosexuals are trying to modify civil marriage to include them!!! NOTE: the word MODIFY!!! Google it if you have trouble understanding!