Expense? Less than 4% of men and 1% of women are estimated to be gay. Of those, only a fraction want to get married. I'm afraid I have no idea where the concern of expense comes from.
Check this quote out from the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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Did you ever wonder why more and more companies, state and municipal governments, and colleges and universities are granting benefits to gay workers' partners and children? One big reason: It's cheap. On average, it would add 1 percent - 2 percent tops - to employers' benefit costs, says Susan Sandler, editor of a newsletter, HRfocus, for the Institute of Management and Administration in New York.
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As for the financial impact on the government, a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study found that if gay marriage were allowed throughout the United States, it would "improve the [federal] budget's bottom line to a small extent: by less than $1 billion in each of the next 10 years." (That wouldn't make much of a dent in a deficit expected to exceed $400 billion this year.)
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0830/p17s01-cogn.html