"Everything Is Changing" - Gay marriage opponent questions family camping policy for state parks

[kpete]

Iowa lawmaker presses the state to discriminate against LGBT families at campgrounds.

Gay marriage opponent questions family camping policy for state parks

by O. Kay Henderson on May 6, 2010

A state senator who opposes gay marriage is asking questions about plans to change a camping rule in the state park system. Just over a year ago the Iowa Supreme Court issued a ruling which legalized gay marriage in Iowa.

Senator Merlin Bartz, a Republican from Grafton, says it appears to him that the Department of Natural Resources wants to make gay couples eligible for family camping at state parks. “They’re citing the Supreme Court case and changing, you know, ‘husband and wife’ language to ’spouse,’” Bartz says.

The rates or 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. “They’re changing their language even though the state legislature has not had a debate on this particular issue,” Bartz says.

Bartz is a member of the Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee which meets on Monday. He’s asked D.N.R. officials to explain their proposal at that meeting. Bartz says he wants to be “vigilant” and keep state agencies from writing rules that extend new benefits to gay couples. “A lot of the advocates of gay marriage in Iowa have said, ‘It doesn’t affect anything. Nothing has changed,’” Bartz says. “The reality of it is that everything is changing.”

more:
http://www.radioiowa.com/2010/05/06/gay-marriage-opponent-questions-family-camping-policy-for-state-parks/
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/08/lgbt-campgrounds/


ht to: forkboy

[crim son]

1. Way to be an asshole in every possible regard. n/t

[NYC Liberal]

2. This idiot is making this out to be a problem with gay marriage,

when in reality it's simply a matter of slightly adjusting the language of a few laws where necessary.

[Forkboy]

3. Someone saw Priscilla Queen of the Desert and got all shook up, apparently.

“The reality of it is that everything is changing.”

At least he gets science.....

[The_Commonist]

4. Yet another Republican...

...who spends WAY too much time thinking about other people's sex lives.

Yeah, dude, "Everything is changing."
Get used to it...

[mike_c]

5. sounds like the very definition of "grasping at straws...."

eom

[Botany]

6. Way too much time on his hands

I am guessing closet case.

[eShirl]

7. what's it to him?

[Botany]

8. Not being gay I might be out on limb here but I doubt that "the gays" are ..

..... really into him.





If you are camping and you are worried about the next camp site over from you (as long as they
are quite and respectful) the problem is not with your neighbors but you.

[Texasgal]

9. So how to enforce that?

" yes sir, that'll be 10 dollars for the overnight stay...and are you fellows gay?"

Ugggg.