Report: Gay marriage would bring $15M to Utah

[RandySF]

SALT LAKE CITY -- Legalizing gay marriage in Utah would generate an estimated $15.5 million for the state's economy in the first three years, a new report from a California-based think tank shows.

The projection is based on the guess that about 2,000 gay and lesbian couples would marry, about half of all same-sex couples in the state according to Census figures.

The money spent to put on those wedding celebrations and by friends and family traveling to Utah to attend them would bring a windfall to the state economy, according to researchers at the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

A federal judge overturned Utah's ban on gay marriage in December, leading more than 1,000 couples to get married before the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay pending the appeals court ruling.


http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/27/6357641/report-gay-marriage-would-bring.html#storylink=cpy

[merrily]

1. They'd ony spend it on fighting equal marriage in every other place in the nation, though.