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TiberiusMineola
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I am following the extenisve debates, political manuevering, etc. in the USA since the Supreme Judicial Court of Mass. decided in May 2004 that all homosexual Mass. residents had & have a constitutional right to wed. A 4-3 decision.
Suggestion: would it be to the financial, if not cultural, advantage of the DR to legalize homosexual marriage for all, regardless of nationality? Thousands of homosexuals seeking wedded bliss would flock to the DR; a minimum 3 week physical stay in the DR would be necessary to establish "temporary residency" & to comple the disgorgement of $. Since foreign marriages are honored in the USA, all Dominican performed homosexual marriages would be valid in the USA!! Food for thought? Potential economic benefits for an increasingly poor 3rd World Country? Thank you, Hippolito! How many homosexuals would return to the DR annualy, or perhaps every 5 years, to celetrabrate their wedding anniversaries? Repeat business. Special packages? Special resorts? Can you hear the cash registers ringing? More jbos for DRs! I don't think that the Catholic Church would support my well meaning suggestions; it has the right to disagree, perhaps on reasonable theological & historical grounds? Perhaps not? But solely civil marriages for homosexuals? Perhaps, with a US $75. / person surcharge to surrport the electrical industry, thereby guaranteeing lights & electricity for the wedding ceremonies? It could benefit all of us expatriates! Assuming all of us use electricity & are fed up. A stupid idea? The DR has been rendering the same services for divorcing foreigners, including Americans, for decades; all such DR divorces are recognized & honored by the American legal system. Same principle. But, . . . more money! Why not? Food for thought! Anything to lose?
Suggestion: would it be to the financial, if not cultural, advantage of the DR to legalize homosexual marriage for all, regardless of nationality? Thousands of homosexuals seeking wedded bliss would flock to the DR; a minimum 3 week physical stay in the DR would be necessary to establish "temporary residency" & to comple the disgorgement of $. Since foreign marriages are honored in the USA, all Dominican performed homosexual marriages would be valid in the USA!! Food for thought? Potential economic benefits for an increasingly poor 3rd World Country? Thank you, Hippolito! How many homosexuals would return to the DR annualy, or perhaps every 5 years, to celetrabrate their wedding anniversaries? Repeat business. Special packages? Special resorts? Can you hear the cash registers ringing? More jbos for DRs! I don't think that the Catholic Church would support my well meaning suggestions; it has the right to disagree, perhaps on reasonable theological & historical grounds? Perhaps not? But solely civil marriages for homosexuals? Perhaps, with a US $75. / person surcharge to surrport the electrical industry, thereby guaranteeing lights & electricity for the wedding ceremonies? It could benefit all of us expatriates! Assuming all of us use electricity & are fed up. A stupid idea? The DR has been rendering the same services for divorcing foreigners, including Americans, for decades; all such DR divorces are recognized & honored by the American legal system. Same principle. But, . . . more money! Why not? Food for thought! Anything to lose?