Sue Everhart, the chair of the Georgia
GOP, believes that gay marriage is about “a free ride.”
“You may be as straight as an arrow,
and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow,”
Everhart told the Marietta
Daily Journal. “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 you're gay, and y'all get married
and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see
so much abuse in this it's 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, it's all
about a free ride.”
She
went on to suggest that such unions would leave children confused
about their sexual orientation.
“You're creating with this child that
it's a lifestyle, don't go out and marry someone else of a different
sex because this is natural. But if I had a next door neighbor who
was in a gay relationship, I could be just as friendly to them as I
could be to you and your wife or anybody else,” Everhart said.
“I'm not saying that we ostracize them or anything like that. I'm
just saying I'm against marriage because once you get the gay
marriage you get everything else.”