From the the Michael Gallagher radio show:
STEELE: No, no no. What would we do that for? What are you crazy? No. Why would we backslide on a core, founding value of this country. I mean this isn't something that you just kind of like, "Oh well, today I feel, you know, loosey-goosey on marriage." I mean, this is a foundational principle of this country. It is a foundational principle of organized society. It isn't something that, you know, in America we decided, "Let's make it between a man and a woman; oh well now, let's change our mind and make it between anyone and anyone." No.Michael Steele, Maryland's former Lieutenant Governor and current head of the Republican National Committee, expressing his anti-gay views again on the radio this month. (Ben Smith at Politico) In addition to this discussion on the Mike Gallagher Show, Steele also recently hosted ''Morning in America'' where he stated that the best way to get black Americans to join the Republican party would be to talk to them about shared viewpoints on socially conservative wedge issues, specifically pointing to Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage voter initiative that was approved in California, and which Steele excitedly said had been supported and passed in large part by African-Americans.... And one more thing: It was Sarah Palin who was best known for saying the difference between hockey moms and bulldogs is lipstick; while Obama was soon after admonished by Republicans who claimed he was insulting Palin by using the "lipstick on a pig" metaphor.
GALLAGHER: So no room even for a conversation about civil unions, in your mind?
STEELE: What's the difference?
GALLAGHER: Well, you're not calling it marriage.
STEELE: Is it?
GALLAGHER: I don't know. I mean, I... I...
STEELE: I mean, like Sarah Palin said, you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.
