Ok fine, RNC Chair, Micheal Steele’s assertion that gay marriage will cost small business owners in the form of spousal benefits does blatantly ignore the billions that will be pumped into the economy by the addition of gay weddings. Fair enough, and I do certainly appreciate just how much of an ally to the gay community Olbermann has been lately. But if it’s even valid to argue the economics of human rights, Steele’s argument misses the mark in a big way and bothering to argue the other side only serves to validate the faulty framework Steele set up in the first place.
It’s really quite simple. Economically, there is not gay marriage and straight marriage, there is only marriage. Gay people make up approximately 10% of society. Any economic argument for or against gay marriage applies to straight marriage times nine. If the GOP wants to argue that gay marriage is just too expensive, then, by default, they are making the argument that straight marriage is just too expensive by a much wider margin. Steele can’t argue that he wishes to ban gay marriage for economic reasons without simultaneously arguing that he wants to ban straight marriage even more (9X more). If “nobody should be able to get married, period” is the message the GOP wants to sell, more power to them, but I doubt it’s a winning platform.