Gay Marriage Is Anti-Small Business, Says Michael Steele

Posted on May 20, 2009
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GOP Chairman Michael Steele explained in a recent speech how his party should “recast” the gay marriage issue as not just a social issue, but a business issue:

“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,” Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. “So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.”

It’s almost unfair to comment on this because it’s so hard to figure out what Steele even means here. I guess he’s saying that if a small-business owner has gay employees who suddenly are able to get married, that owner will have to pay higher benefit costs, such as higher health-care premiums to insure the spouse.

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