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TOM KLUDT 8:39 AM EDT, MONDAY APRIL 1, 2013
A top Republican in Georgia has sounded an ominous warning that legalization of same-sex marriage may also lead to fraud.
Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, told the Marietta Daily Journal in a story published Saturday that once gay nuptials are legally permitted there will be nothing to stop a straight person from exploiting the system in order to claim marital benefits.
You may be as straight as an arrow, and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow, Everhart said. Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that youre gay, and yall get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this its unreal. I believe a husband and a wife should be a man and a woman, the benefits should be for a man and a woman. There is no way that this is about equality. To me, its all about a free ride.
Everhart also expressed a distaste for homosexuality, which she argued is unnatural.
Lord, Im going to get in trouble over this, but it is not natural for two women or two men to be married, Everhart said. If it was natural, they would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.
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Link to Marietta Daily Journal article:
http://www.mdjonline.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Cobb+sounds+off+as+Facebook+goes+red+in+support+of+gay+marriage%20&id=22108736|
tom2255
(37 posts)Very common around marine corps bases. I actually have a relative who is "married" to an army guy she met.
If people really cared about it, they would have been cracking down on these sham marriages.
LiberalFighter
(50,477 posts)as long as there is the possibility that they might have sex and the woman gets pregnant.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)like the GOP's sham marriage to corporate and wealthy interests? They go out to dinner all the time and wrestle under the covers passionately while pretending they are not wed in public.
I know pronounce you GOP and Koch. In fact, GOP should have a last name, but wait, it is polygamous and the list would be huge. Never mind.
Of course, nobody has ever met a straight couple where the arrangement was for someone to stay in the country, ey? My sister married a Greek fellow who wanted citizenship. I didn't care.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)That's what makes rates go sky high.
former9thward
(31,798 posts)Some do indeed get married for fraudulent reasons. And these are 'straight' people. Will fraud occur in gay marriages? Of course but there is no reason to think it will occur more than it happens with straight people.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)Please tell me that this is an April Fools Day joke...please?