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Proposed Gay Games Event Divides Ill. Town
The Washington Times ^ | 4-4-06 | DON BABWIN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ap.washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crystallake; gaygames; gerbilsfreestyle; homosexualagenda
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"One of the Gay Games' missions is to raise awareness about gays to reduce stereotypes"

I think everyone's aware, how can you not be?

1 posted on 04/04/2006 11:19:34 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: JZelle

Why can't they just stay in San Francisco and leave the rest of the U.S. alone?


2 posted on 04/04/2006 11:23:09 AM PDT by mlc9852
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"One of the Gay Games'
this is just begging for a punchline...........
3 posted on 04/04/2006 11:24:24 AM PDT by GrandEagle
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To: JZelle

I would just like to hijack this thread to talk about how Bush divides the country...


4 posted on 04/04/2006 11:26:50 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Since all politicians understand is money, I donate ONLY to those who oppose illegal immigration)
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Why can't they just stay in San Francisco and leave the rest of the U.S. alone?

Because they're too stupid to realize the more they try to force their homosexual agenda on everyone, the more they just p*ss everyone off. Why would they have their "gay games" in a small town in mid-America anyway?

5 posted on 04/04/2006 11:29:51 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: JZelle

The event is one based on recreational sex.

The reaction should be the same as if it is the "animal sex" games, "bondage" games, the "pain for fun" games, or any other explicit sexual act.

This is not an athletic event, this is a recreational sex event by its name and intention. The town is very right to deny the event.

Why should such sexual deviance be exposed to the public where children are going to see it. Sorry but homosexuals have no right to parade their sexual act in public.


6 posted on 04/04/2006 11:31:23 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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Proposed Gay Games Event Divides Ill. Town

Pitchers vs Catchers?

7 posted on 04/04/2006 11:32:22 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (America is the land of the free BECAUSE of the BRAVE !!)
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Everytime this issue comes up (or is it "out"?) I am always reminded of what a certain politician (Tom Duane) said when the games were held in NYC:

"New York should bend over backwards for the Gay games."

8 posted on 04/04/2006 11:34:01 AM PDT by Clemenza (I Just Wasn't Made for These Times)
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To: GrandEagle

Wait 'til the good folks get a load of the leap-frog competition!


9 posted on 04/04/2006 11:36:57 AM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here over ten years, in what some call Aztlan.")
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To: OB1kNOb

Tight ends v Wide receivers?


10 posted on 04/04/2006 11:37:59 AM PDT by wordoffaith
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To: JZelle

Broad Jump contestant.

11 posted on 04/04/2006 11:40:03 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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"Why would they have their "gay games" in a small town in mid-America anyway?"

Because they want to rub it in the faces of people who they know will be against it. It's the same reason they like to stay "gay parades" in places like Rome and Jerusalem--it's shocking, it's "in your face", it'll piss off the "homophobes". They're not interested in merely remaining in their communities and minding their own business; they like to provoke.


12 posted on 04/04/2006 11:40:49 AM PDT by marsh_of_mists
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To: OB1kNOb

Tight ends or wide receivers?


13 posted on 04/04/2006 11:58:31 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: JZelle

Most popular gay game - the pole vault.


14 posted on 04/04/2006 12:01:30 PM PDT by beethovenfan
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To: GrandEagle

Gold Medalist in Bareback Mounting..........


15 posted on 04/04/2006 12:14:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.....)
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To: JZelle

Actually, the situation is that participants from these games come from foreign countries, not just the U.S.A. And I've seen it reported that at the behest of Mayor Daley, the State Department relaxed it's normal visa requirements to allow HIV+ people to come into the U.S. to participate in these games.


16 posted on 04/04/2006 12:20:42 PM PDT by RonF
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To: mlc9852

Why can't they just stay in San Francisco and leave the rest of the U.S. alone?

Too bad you don't feel the same way about illegal aliens!


17 posted on 04/04/2006 12:50:52 PM PDT by wolfcreek
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To: DBeers

More about the "gay" games crapola.


18 posted on 04/04/2006 12:52:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Tolerating evil IS evil.)
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To: JZelle

Just send a few hundred evangelical christians in to witness to them.


19 posted on 04/04/2006 12:55:54 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
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To: wolfcreek

Okay - let's have all the Mexicans move to SF!


20 posted on 04/04/2006 1:07:13 PM PDT by mlc9852
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