Not Buying Steele's Fiscal Argument against Marriage Equality

It's fascinating to watch how opponents of marriage equality are changing their arguments to find new, “politically acceptable” arguments to justify discrimination. Michael Steele, the new GOP chairman, is now asserting that allowing gay couples to marry would cost too much for small businesses which offer spousal benefits.

Consider this. People probably waste more money opposing marriage equality than would be required to fund all businesses' spousal benefits for their gay partners!

Steele's argument only draws attention to the fact that gay employees of such small businesses have been paying taxes to support the 1,100 Federal and 400 state spousal benefits of their straight colleagues. These are all benefits that gay partners are denied at the Federal level and in most states. At their own expense, gay employees have been saving their businesses money, while straight employees incur the lion’s share of costs.

Steele’s cost argument is as ludicrous as another new argument, that allowing same-sex marriage would “victimize” religious people who choose to serve the public and lose their right to discriminate. See the parody videos of the National Organization for Marriage's commercial in an earlier blog below.

Watch the silly arguments rise and fall as more Americans see same-sex marriage for what it is: a non-threat and simple issue of justice and equality.