Ethics

Same Sex Marriage Helping Massachusetts

By Ed Brayton

Here's a report from a business journal in Massachusetts that says that having same sex marriage is helping attract gay professionals to the state, where they can be assured of legal protections lacking elsewhere around the country. Seems obvious enough to me. If you were an educated, professional gay couple and you had a choice between jobs in Massachusetts and a state that fails to provide the same rights and protections, that would be a huge factor. Ask Jason Kuznicki and his husband Scott how important those legal protections were in deciding whether to live in conservative and anti-gay Virginia or in the more progressive and gay friendly Maryland. It's a huge factor, as it should be.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).