Someone at AP has a sense of humor.
Posted on 07/21/2005 10:18:00 AM PDT by SmithL
CHICAGO - The five Republicans on the county board withdrew their names from a routine proclamation welcoming the 2006 Gay Games to Chicago.
The Illinois Family Institute is urging Democratic commissioners to do the same.
"There's a big difference between tolerating and celebrating homosexuality," said Peter LaBarbera of the group. "For governments to be using taxpayer money and big corporations spending money to sponsor this, we think the average Joe sees that as being just a little bit off."
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the ceremonial proclamation without opposition last month as one of a group of routine measures.
"I must have been out of the room" when the proclamation came up, said Tony Peraica, one of the five Republicans on the 17-commissioner board.
Organizers say the Gay Games, set for July 2006, could pump $50 million to $80 million into Chicago's economy.
Gay Games spokeswoman Tracy Baim said she was not surprised by the commissioners' move and was "actually more surprised" when the proclamation was approved.
Commissioner Mike Quigley, who sponsored the proclamation, plans to play hockey in the games and said the Republicans' move stemmed from "blinding bias and animosity."
The city of Chicago isn't a financial sponsor but is helping line up facilities and other resources. The opening ceremony is to be held at Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears, and the closing at Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs.
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How about urinal polo?
I would unequivocally state that whatever these perverts do in respect of gay games, this is an event that we would want to keep our children far, far away from.
Chicago, and Illinois in general, has become a snake pit, a cesspool of a place politically and is family unfriendly!
100 metre or 100 petre?
Don't forget the Long & Short Reacharound.
There will be no men competing in the broad jump but hundreds of them in the pole vault.
"What will the events be? 100 meter Circle Jerk...? 2 Man Bobbing Heads...?"
Also: Leapfrog, Three-Legged Racing, Pole Vaulting, Pocket-Pool, the usual stuff...
But why do they have to wear that Richard Simmons nut-huggin spandex?
Do they have separate teams for pitchers and catchers?
I'd like to know what some of the "competitions" in the "Gay Games" are?
1. Spooge-launch
2. "Going-down captain"!
3. Poop-rocket toss
4. Circle-jerk
5. Brownie Munch
Someone needs to get al queda on the horn....pssst "chicago" pssst :D
Maybe it's a lot easier to jump around like that when you're nuts are being hugged.
Here is a related quote:
Andrew Clark: You don't have any goals
John Bender: Oh, but I do! I want to be just like you. I figure all I need is a labotomy and some tights.
Brian Johnson: You wear tights?
Andrew: No, I don't were tights! I wear the required uniform.
Brian: Tights.
Andrew: Shut up!
Someone at AP has a sense of humor.
No, he doesn't get it...
To the Homofascists, if you do not celebrate their behaviors, you're an intoelrant neanderthal bigot.
And most politicians operate under this assumption.
As well as pump the AIDS virus and other STDs into many thousand local residents.
You are correct, the pols here celebrate deviant behavior and even promote it. Schools push the agenda in grade school unashamed.
'Crotching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' was a punchline of a joke several years back at the Oscars concerning a game that Sigfried and Roy used to play.
Two proud venues of everything that's MANLY are being sullied.
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