I used to think it was awful that I could be fired for being gay; denied housing for being gay; bashed for being gay. And don't get me started on legal rights of marriage and adoption that i can't get in many places because I'm gay.
But now, one of those Iowa wingnuts doesn't want gay folks to go camping. I know!
Senator Merlin Bartz, a Republican--naturally--who opposes marriage equality, is worried about plans to change a camping rule in state parks which, to him, makes gay couples eligible for family camping at state parks.
“They’re citing the Supreme Court case," Bartz says, "and changing, you know, ‘husband and wife’ language to ’spouse.’”
Um, Merlin? You're a wingnut? Husbands are spouses. Wives, too. Get thee to a Thesaurus.
See, in Iowa, which made marriage equality legal, by the way, the fees for camp sites are the same, whether you’re a family or a non-family, but the state allows families to put up more than one tent on a camp site.
But Bartz doesn't want The Gays to be allowed more than one tent.
Seriously. Wing-nutty.
“They’re changing their language even though the state legislature has not had a debate on this particular issue,” Bartz says, adding, “A lot of the advocates of gay marriage in Iowa have said, ‘It doesn’t affect anything. Nothing has changed.’ The reality of it is that everything is changing.”
Yes, Merlin, it's changing, and you can change with the rest of us, or you can continue to stand in a corner and stomp your feet because you don't want The Gays to have the same rights as everyone else.
everything going on in the world, and this is what they are concerned about. How do these people get elected?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this creep's district is near Congressman Steve King's district. That would explain everything.
ReplyDeleteI say if people want to sleep on the ground, battle mosquitoes the size of aircraft carriers and drink tepid coffee with smoke blowing in their faces - more power to them! I will gladly give up my official *family* designation to them.
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