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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.
Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to appeal to young voters and minorities without sacrificing core conservative principles. Steele said he used the argument weeks ago while chatting on a flight with a college student who described herself as fiscally conservative but socially liberal on issues like gay marriage.
"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."
What a half-baked idea. Steele is a dolt. Why not go all the way and say that small businesses should be against opposite-sex marriages too? That would save them a lot more money.
What a half-baked idea. Steele is a dolt. Why not go all the way and say that small businesses should be against opposite-sex marriages too? That would save them a lot more money.
or let's not offer them to black ppl or single ppl, etc. If business wishes to retain good workers and stay competitive, it should offer the same level of benefits to its gay employees as to its hetro employees. Is that the best that the token RNC chairman can come up with?
Unbelievable, indeed. He wouldn't be talking all of that smack of it was a newly-wed heterosexual couple.
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