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In one such ruling, the Ninth Circuit observed:The lessons of our constitutional historyare clear: inclusion strengthens, ratherthan weakens, our most important institutions.When we integrated ourschools, education improved. When weopened our juries to women, our democracybecame more vital. When we allowedlesbian and gαy soldiers to serveopenly in uniform, it enhanced unit cohesion.When same-sex couples aremarried, just as when opposite-sex couplesare married, they serve as modelsof loving commitment to all.These same observations ring true for American companies:diversity and inclusion strengthen, not weaken,our businesses.
Empirical evidence shows the business value ofinvestments in diversity. The Williams Institute atthe UCLA School of Law recently reviewed thirty-sixresearch studies and found that working in an LGBTsupportiveworkplace results in “greater job commitment,improved workplace relationships, increasedjob satisfaction, improved health outcomes, and increasedproductivity” among LGBT employees. 20 A2013 study of approximately 300 firms that adoptedsame-sex domestic partnership benefits between 1990and 2006 showed an approximate ten percent averagestock price increase over the sample period—a performancebetter than ninety-five percent of all U.S.professional mutual funds—as well as “significantimprovement in operating performance relative tocompanies that did not adopt such policies
HeterosɛҳuąƖ individuals, too, may decide thatstates hostile to marriage equality are not stateswhere they want to live and work.47 Richard Florida,a leading urban studies theorist, states that “members of the creative class—roughly 50 million peopleincluding scientists engineers, and entrepreneurs, researchersand academics, architects and designers,artists, entertainers and professionals in business,media, management, healthcare and law” use diversityas a proxy for determining whether a city wouldprovide a welcoming home.48 The Williams Institutefound that “creative-class” Massachusetts residentsin same-sex relationships were 2.5 times more likelyto have moved there in the three years after marriageequality than in the three years before.
Obviously the ninth circuit never served in any branch of the military!