Georgia GOP chair warns of straight marriages for benefits if gays allowed to marry

Marietta, GA - 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."