After Colorado passed Amendment 2 (I think it was) a while back, a lot of folks found the state-approved homophobia so off-putting that Colorado ended up losing a lot of tourist dollars due to organizations and individuals canceling conferences and tourism packages here.<\/p>\n
While some have suggested<\/a> that something similar might happen to California, I doubt it — the state is simply too big and important to be shunned. There were other places besides Colorado to go skiing — Utah, for example — while there are too many aspects of California that simply cannot be bypassed. Not to say that the state might not suffer for its majority decision<\/a>, but it won’t be through boycotts.<\/p>\n Utah, on the other hand, is home to the LDS Church, which coordinated plowing massive amounts of its followers time and money toward Proposition 8’s passage<\/a>. Up to 80% of the money raised for Prop 8 came from Mormons, and while California has a sizeable Mormon population, a lot of that came from Utah.<\/p>\n So now Utah might find that there are other places for tourists to go for skiing — Colorado, for example. More importantly, some folks are arguing<\/a> that the active role that the LDS Church took in the Amendment 8 battle might well have violated their IRS standing as a tax-exempt institution<\/a>. That seems a bit <\/em>out there at the moment — but it will be interesting to see how the argument progresses.<\/p>\n One thing for certain: I expect there will be unexpected repercussions of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After Colorado passed Amendment 2 (I think it was) a while back, a lot of folks found the state-approved homophobia so off-putting that Colorado ended up losing a lot of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-gay-stuff","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8947,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/twelve_years_la.html","url_meta":{"origin":13588,"position":0},"title":"Twelve years later …","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Mar-06 2:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A year or two before I moved to Colorado, California bit the bullet and banned most indoor smoking, including in bars and restaurants. 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