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NEWS > U.S.A. > VERMONT GAY MARRIAGE DECISION PUTS STRAIN ON MARRIAGE LICENSE SUPPLIES
VERMONT GAY MARRIAGE DECISION PUTS STRAIN ON MARRIAGE LICENSE SUPPLIES
April 9 2009
Montpelier, VT – The decision by Vermont legislators to legalize gay marriage is being celebrated by many as a civil rights triumph. Others see the decision as a potentially devastating blow to the concept of marriage, opening the process to untold levels of abuse. Either way, Vermont’s decision marks a fundamental shift in the nature of marriage and opens the doors to virtually everyone being able to marry.
That fact has lawmakers and advocates on both sides deeply concerned that the nation may soon be running out of marriage licenses.
Following Iowa, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, Vermont’s decision to legalize comes after much debate and has generated great deals of controversy. The District of Columbia as well made significant moves towards recognizing gay marriages, and indication the issue is moving ever closer to Washington and perhaps a national debate. So far the availability of marriage licenses has not been an issue but many are worried that if a major state such as New York or California legalize gay marriage that the government’s supply of the documents could be severely threatened. 
“Much like infrastructure, schooling, and healthcare previous administrations have not seen the production of new marriage licenses as a priority and that has brought about serious concerns about not only the long term viability of gay marriages but also of heterosexual marriages,” said Scrape TV Infrastructure analyst Abigail Wassmer. “Simply put there aren’t enough in circulation to hold the country forever and by allowing a significant population to create a run on those licenses the country may simply run out leaving future generations unable to marry at all.”
Numbers vary radically in terms of the actual number of gay people in the United States from lows of 1 per cent of the population to highs of 10 per cent. The issue that concerns most observers is that high density populations tend to have a higher percentage especially in more liberal minded states such as New York and California.
“Simply put there are more gay people in New York than there are in Vermont. In fact there are probably more gay people in New York State than there are people in all of 
Vermont and that will cause a major rush on licenses should it become legal which would tax the already overburdened printing industry,” continued Wassmer. “The obvious solution is to print more licenses but that isn’t as easy as it sounds in this economy. Printing facilities are suffering because of the collapse of newspapers across the country and it that makes all the more work for those printers that have been able to stay afloat. Unfortunately that growth doesn’t necessarily relate to infrastructure improvements and that could make it very difficult to pump out the number of licenses that will be needed for the future.”
Conservative critics are also concerned that an alteration in the definition of marriage will provoke further changes such as marriages between humans and animals or humans and inanimate objects such as stuffed animals. Few observers see those scenarios as particularly likely, outside Arkansas at least.
“Previous administrations have been very lax in preparing for the future. Eight years under a President who was preoccupied with multiple wars and the ever increasing difficulty of colouring books and paint-by-numbers has meant less than strict attention on the future of marriage,” continued Wassmer. “If marriage collapses because of that lack of foresight 
we could be looking at a fundamental shift in how we see society and each, possibly even seeing it through a radioactive suit to keep the fallout from our skin. Hopefully the Obama administration sees this as at least an important enough issue to allocate at least some of the bailout money towards correcting otherwise we could be left with a whole lot of people left as perpetual bridesmaids.”
Officially the government states that it has enough licenses to cover future marriages for at least the next ten years, barring an increase in the divorce rate and the assumption that other major states such as Texas and Florida will never legalize gay marriage.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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