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PoliticAverse

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Tue Mar 26, 2013, 04:47 AM Mar 2013

High court gay marriage tickets cost time, money

WASHINGTON (AP) — The most expensive ticket to "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway: $477. The face value of a great seat for this year's Super Bowl: $1,250. Guaranteed seats to watch the U.S. Supreme Court hear this week's gay marriage cases: about $6,000.

Tickets to the two arguments that begin Tuesday are technically free. But getting them requires lining up days or hours ahead, or paying someone else to. The first people got in line Thursday, bringing the price of saving a seat to around $6,000.

For some, putting a value on the seats is meaningless.

"It's just not possible," said Fred Sainz a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization, which began employing two people to stand in line Thursday.

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High court gay marriage tickets cost time, money (Original Post) PoliticAverse Mar 2013 OP
Is that legal ? dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #1
You don't have "professional line sitters" in the UK? n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2013 #2
Not to my knowledge dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #3
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