Posted on 06/05/2008 6:14:52 AM PDT by Sopater
Same-Sex Couple Sues After Faced With Ultimatum at Mariners Baseball Game
Anyone who has attended a Major League Baseball game in the past decade has probably seen a "Kiss Cam" where couples throughout the ballpark are featured locking lips on the big-screen JumboTrons.
But controversy over ballpark kissing erupted at Safeco Field in Seattle this week when a same-sex couple claimed they were discriminated against because of their sexual orientation, which stadium officials deny.
Sirbrina Guerrero, 23, says she and her partner, who requested anonymity, were just "exchanging pecks," not acting any differently than heterosexual couples at the game, when park officials told them to stop "making out" or leave the facility.
"We were acting the same as any other dates that were out there, except we were a lesbian couple," she said. "When you bring a date to a game, you kiss once in a while. But it's not like we were making out. We were just kissing as regular couples do. I would never make out with anyone at a baseball game."
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“We’re a couple just like any other couple!”
“No, we’re not!”
“Yes we are”
“We deserve to be treated just like any other couple!”
“No we don’t, we’re so special!”
“Sure we are!”
“No we’re not!”
Yes, PDA has been with us for a long long time, starting back in those innocent days when it was anything but “political”-—but now, any exhibition of it, from the hetero or homo sides, is considered “political”. It’s just part of a larger, more inclusive social phenom that has at its core a certain kind of exhibitionism. Consider how many people we see every day walking around talking into their little mouthpieces 2 inches from their lips, carrying on usually LOUD conversations with people who are strangers to us, but not to them, on sometimes the most personal of subjects. This has become a socially acceptable way of exposing yourself, just like flashers in raincoats. And the whole genesis of it is with the lack of decorum among people of ALL “persuasions” who can’t keep private behavior private.
Yea, families bring their kids to the game to have to deal with this crap?
This is the biggest problem with the Pirates right now, their owner is a huge poofer, he is more interested in gay rights/advocacy crap than he is actually putting together a winning team. They even have “GAY DAY” where a big gaggle all march through town and then own 1 section of the park with their flags flying and all the other nonsense that goes with it. Of course they don’t really mention it to the other 20,000+ people that buy tickets that day that that will be going on....
I really don’t give a rats butt what two folks do behind closed doors... I truly don’t. But I don’t take my kids to a sporting event to have discussions about the mentally ill.
She is kind of cute, in an “anime” kind of way.
But that has nothing to do with the “issue”.
Frankly, I like “girl on girl”
I just don’t understand boy on boy.
Maybe the hubub is to discourage the inevitable: boy on boy.
Let’s face it, hetero girls have always danced together,
held hands together, are much more naturally physical with
each other in a way guys could and should never be.
So far, the only “problem” I see is what I just mentioned-
that “certifying” this Lesbian PDA would hasten the arrival
of Gay Male PDA. Think about it.
Ask yourself what percentage of females are offended by it, as opposed to what percentage of males.
The answers, and the reasons behind them, might surprise you.
I’m 54 yrs old and I’ve never made out in public. I guess I thought that stuff was private, silly me.
They look somewhat alike. I’ve noticed that of many gay or lesbian couples. It’s almost like...Narcissus kissing his own reflection. Draw your own conclusion.
Damn, when she fell out of the ugly tree, she hit every branch on the way down.
Excuse me, but wasn’t the Supreme Court ruling on what people do in private? Since when is there a constitutional right to offend everyone?
President Obama says you vill go to the Gay Pride Parade and you vill cheer.
I can explain it. They are in love with...THEMSELVES. Their bedroom antics are mutual self-gratification and can never be more than that. There is no possibility of creating natural offspring.
Yup. It’s all about them.
susie
Fake Out Make Out to avoid unwelcome police attention (Warning: drops one f-bomb)
Gayness, homosexuality, male or female, always seemed to me to be “the height of narcissism”, at its worst. But lots of times it doesn’t quite fall out that way. Maybe my perceptions were mostly about male homosexuality and determined by being in theater all through the 70s.
Having lived in the Sodom on the Sound area for 14 years, I am stunned that the Mariners did this. EVERYONE KNOWS that Seattle is exactly like Fagafrisco and is run by fagots. This will probably end in some kind of discrimination lawsuit. There are hundreds of fag attorneys in Seattle.
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