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."
I am sorry, but how is adding your gay life partner to your health insurance policy, any different than having a bachelor marry his sweetheart? Using this same logic shouldn't the Republicans be advocating against "opposite marriage" as well? I mean if you keep everybody single and childless than that keeps the company health care costs lower, right?
Does Michael Steele EVER think before he talks? In my opinion this just provides more evidence that the ONLY reason this guy got his job is because of the color of his skin.
If I were a Republican, and thank the gods I am not, I would be terrified every time this guy opened his mouth. And if I were one of the very few Black Republicans in this country I would be working to get him kicked out of his position as chairman before he sets the cause of African Americans back two hundred years.
But it was perfectly O.K when the "Gay Nazi Movement" blamed the passage of Proposition 8 on blacks and latinos, though, wasn't it? Hypocrites.
ReplyDeleteColour me stupid and correct me if I'm wrong but... doesn't it cost an employer more to pay benefits and contribute into healthcare for two separate single employees than it does for those of one married couple? And if a husband has his wife and family covered on his policy, say at Company A, does not the working wife at Company B save said company addidional health fees? Or is everyone covered twice?
ReplyDeleteAnd I really hate to be a nit-picker but... what in the name of all that's Holy, does a basic civil rights issue have to do with the financial problems of the small business anyway?
Wouldn't this same faulty logic apply to all businesses as well, not just small businesses?
ReplyDeleteSo there goes their "family values" platform.
When Americans want good affordable healthcare like the rest of the civilized world has they will get it. Right now too many Americans think that government run healthcare is a commie plot and they are looking for something a little less progressive. There really is no other answer of course.
ReplyDeleteI'm a Canadian and I know about these things. We don't allow our citizens to go without good affordable healthcare and pharmaceuticals which are affordable for those who need them. It wouldn't be civilized!
But of course we're all a bunch of commie pinkos and we devour our young so our ideals wouldn't suit America's god. And of course our healthcare is low quality and it's just a lie that we live longer and our infant mortality rate is lower than in America. Forget it.
Americans talk a lot about family values but you never hear them say much about people values. Aren't the two sort of the same thing?
ReplyDeleteHey American friends, what would your geezuz think?