Effort To Ban Gay Players From NFL Draws Little Support -- Not Even From Steve King
CAITLIN MACNEAL – FEBRUARY 27, 2014, 3:04 PM EST
An effort to keep openly gay athletes from playing in the National Football League has gained little traction in Congress, and even one of the House's most conservative members, Rep. Steve King (R-IA), said he wouldn't support such legislation.
"I think what it amounts to is the locker room in the NFL is full of women reporters, so it’s kind of hard to make an argument against a gay person in there, whatever their gender," King told the Huffington Post on Thursday.
King opposes same-sex marriage and authored a bill in 2012 that would have kept military facilities from hosting same-sex marriages.
The draft legislation, written by conservative lobbyist and CEO of Burkman Associates LLC, Jack Burkman, would ban openly gay football players from joining a team in the NFL unless that team "provides facilities for homosexual players which are entirely separate and distinct from the facilities used by heterosexual players."
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