Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel
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Contact: Ron DeCar
1205 Las Vegas Blvd., South
Las Vegas, Nevada 89104
Toll Free: (800) 574-4450 Local: (702) 384-0771
The Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapels offers more choices for fun and romantic vow renewals and commitment ceremonies than any other on the fabulous Las Vegas Strip. You may choose to have Elvis remarry you in our thrilling Elvis Blue Hawaii wedding, with tropical sets, theatrical lighting and fog effects, including hula dancers and Elvis serenading you LIVE with three of his most famous hits. We also offer wedding vow renewal and commitment ceremony packages in a wide variety of themes such as the Camelot, the Egyptian, or even the Austin Powers 60′s wedding package. Most packages include video, photography, flowers, super-stretch limousine service. Family and friends back home can watch live on the Internet via our in-chapel web cam, or you may have the whole event burned to a CD for later viewing.
From Wikipedia:
Nevada Law on Same-sex marriage was constitutionally banned in 2002. Nevada Question 2, a proposed amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, was passed with 66.9% of voters in favor.
On May 21, 2009, the state legislature passed the Domestic Partnership Responsibilities Act 2009 to grant both opposite-sex and same-sex couples (over 18) all of the state’s exact responsibilities, obligations, rights, entitlements and the benefits of marriage within a type of domestic partnership registry without calling it “marriage”. Governor Jim Gibbons vetoed the bill a week later, saying, “I do not believe in it”. On May 31, 2009 both the Assembly and Senate overrode his veto with an additional two votes from each House. The law went into effect on October 1, 2009.
Same-sex marriage is a legally or socially recognized marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender. Since 2001, ten countries and various other jurisdictions have begun legally formalizing same-sex marriages, and the recognition of such marriages is a civil rights, political, social, moral, and religious issue in many nations. The conflicts arise over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to enter into marriage, be required to use a different status (such as a civil union, which either grant equal rights as marriage or limited rights in comparison to marriage), or not have any such rights. A related issue is whether the term marriage should be applied.
One argument in support of same-sex marriage is that denying same-sex couples legal access to marriage and all of its attendant benefits represents discrimination based on sexual orientation; several American scientific bodies agree with this assertion. Another argument in support of same-sex marriage is the assertion that financial, psychological and physical well-being are enhanced by marriage, and that children of same-sex couples benefit from being raised by two parents within a legally recognized union supported by society’s institutions. Court documents filed by American scientific associations also state that singling out gay men and women as ineligible for marriage both stigmatizes and invites public discrimination against them. The American Anthropological Association avers that social science research does not support the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon not recognizing same-sex marriage. Other arguments for same-sex marriage are based upon what is regarded as a universal human rights issue, mental and physical health concerns, equality before the law, and the goal of normalizing LGBT relationships. Al Sharpton and several other authors attribute opposition to same-sex marriage as coming from homophobia or heterosexism and liken prohibitions on same-sex marriage to past prohibitions on interracial marriage.
One argument against same-sex marriage arises from a rejection of the use of the word “marriage” as applied to same-sex couples, as well as objections about the legal and social status of marriage itself being applied to same-sex partners under any terminology. Other stated arguments include direct and indirect social consequences of same-sex marriages, parenting concerns, religious grounds, and tradition.
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