Posted on 04/04/2006 11:19:32 AM PDT by JZelle
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) -- Among the items on the City Council's agenda seems a simple matter: Whether to give rowers a permit to have a boat race this summer on a small man-made lake.
But because the rowers are gay - participating in something called the Gay Games - what would normally be a mundane debate about parking and street closures is instead a heated battle between those who see the event as a threat to their small-town way of life and those who see such views as simply small-minded.
On Tuesday, the City Council was scheduled to discuss whether to allow the Olympics-style Gay Games to hold its rowing event in this bedroom community of 40,000 about 50 miles northwest of Chicago.
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Okay - let's have all the Mexicans move to SF!
Now your talkin!
What, do they row different than everyone else? Our stupid misrepresentatives really pooped on us when they put homosexuals on the equal rights list.
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