RNC Chair Michael Steele: GOP is against marriage

Let's follow an argument to its logical conclusion.

Steele points to cost of insuring gay spouses
Associated Press
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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.
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"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."

This argument - Steele's exact words, verbatim, changing not a single letter - implies that Republicans are anti-marriage in general.
"You - Mr. Straight Male Employee - just cost me a ton of $$$ when you married your girlfriend! Why didn't you just co-habitate???"
"You - Ms. Straight Female Employee - just cost me a ton of $$$ when you married your boyfried! Why didn't you just shack up???"

In fact, heterosexual marriage is now costing small businesses a ton of $$$!!! - all those straight spouses to insure!

This has been another episode in the continuing saga, "The conservative mind at work".
[for previous episodes, see here, or here, or here.]