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Not gay enough for softball team?
MSNBC ^ | April 21, 2010 1 hour, 17 minutes ago | msnbc.com

Posted on 04/21/2010 1:08:32 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy

SEATTLE - Three bisexual men have filed a federal lawsuit against a national gay-sports organization, claiming they were unfairly deemed not gay enough to play for a gay softball team during the Gay Softball World Series.

Steven Apilado, LaRon Charles and Jon Russ contend the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance discriminated against them during the Gay Softball World Series held in Seattle in August 2008.

The lawsuit, first reported by The Seattle Times and the Seattle Weekly, was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court. It accuses the alliance of violating Washington state laws barring discrimination.

According to the lawsuit, the three California men were on a softball team called D2 that advanced to the championship game in Seattle. During the game, play was stopped several times after the team that lost to them in the semifinals protested that D2 was in violation of a league rule permitting no more than "two heterosexual players" on a team.

Following the championship game, which D2 lost, Apilado, Charles and Russ were each separately called into a conference room in front of more than 25 people for a "hearing" by the Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance to determine whether each was "heterosexual" or "gay," the lawsuit says.

The men say they were forced to answer "highly personal and intrusive questions" about their sexual interests and private life, including whether they were "predominantly attracted to men" or "predominantly attracted to women."

At one point during the proceedings, the lawsuit alleges, one of the plaintiffs was told: "This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discriminination; gay; gaysoftball; heterophobia; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; napl; notgayenoughtoplay; teabaggers
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To: Ready4Freddy

The problem with these leagues is that everyone wants to be either a pitcher or a catcher. No wants to play the other positions.


41 posted on 04/21/2010 1:22:45 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Radagast the Fool

Yup. Get some fat beer bellied home run hitter softball types. “We want to join the team but we don’t do that queer stuff.”

I once knew a fairly hot girl who was dating and sort of living with a bi guy. He moved to a another town to be with a gay crowd. He was also leaching money off her but she still cared for him.

I tried to convince her that he was not bi but he was gay and bi really means gay. I had no interest in her because if she had been with him then the AIDS risk meter would peg off the charts.

She was a lib who hated Rudy for cleaning up NYC and for “chasing the poor people out” of NYC. She was a very white northern midwestener. She was also very wary of black people. A tolerant liberal who was a little racist.

The bottom line was she was a total mental case. After talking to her twice, I avoided her like the plague.


42 posted on 04/21/2010 1:23:18 PM PDT by Frantzie (McCain=Obama's friend. McCain & Graham = La Raza's favorite Senators)
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To: Ready4Freddy
The men say they were forced to answer "highly personal and intrusive questions"

They were asked if they the double play was their favorite defensive move.

43 posted on 04/21/2010 1:23:22 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: FrankR

He could pitch for the g*y team. I am sure he already has.


44 posted on 04/21/2010 1:24:03 PM PDT by Frantzie (McCain=Obama's friend. McCain & Graham = La Raza's favorite Senators)
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To: Allegra
I would've figured they'd have a world series of wiffle ball.
45 posted on 04/21/2010 1:26:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (We've gone from phony soldiers to phony conservative protesters. Nothing about liberalism is genuine)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Must make for some unusual drag bunts. And forget aout the suicide squeeze.


46 posted on 04/21/2010 1:27:23 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Freedom of Association.. how does this sort of thing even wind up in the courts to begin with?

Any private individual or group can discriminate against whoever they want whenever they want for whatever reason they want, period. Why is it people think they have a right to be accepted by anyone?

I think I’m going to file a class action lawsuit against all beautiful women who ever turned me down for a date.

WTH.


47 posted on 04/21/2010 1:29:23 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Ready4Freddy

Gay discrimination is DIFFERENT from when straights do it against them. It just...IS!


48 posted on 04/21/2010 1:29:33 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Conservative Bostonian, atheist pro-lifer, outnumbered by the clueless)
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To: Ditto

Probably questioned about who pitches, who catches, and what constitutes a ‘passed ball’.


50 posted on 04/21/2010 1:30:09 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: outhousepatrol

“The alliance ruled the three men were “nongay,” stripped D2 of its second-place finish and recommended that the three players be suspended from participating in the Gay Softball World Series for a year, according to the lawsuit.”

The alliance said that if three men were willing to be “gang raped” by the Village People, the suspension would be lifted, IF they could pass the “two gerbils wide test!


51 posted on 04/21/2010 1:32:45 PM PDT by outhousepatrol
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To: Ready4Freddy

In before the thread is pulled again! (At least 3 times today.)


52 posted on 04/21/2010 1:33:43 PM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

So there’s a new guy on the boat.

The chief leads him down to the engine room to a barrel which was missing a cork.

The chief says, go ahead. Try it out.
The guy says, This is great. I’m going to come here every day.

The chief says, Every day except Monday.

The guy says, What’s wrong with Monday?

The chief says, That’s your day in the barrel.

The guy goes to the Captain and says, Everyone on this ship is gay. And they are screwing with me all the time.

The Captain says, Really? Come over here! Now sit down on my lap and tell me what all those bad boys did to you...

I apologize in advance for my lack of decorum and civility. But it is a funny joke I picked up in the Navy.


53 posted on 04/21/2010 1:34:52 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
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To: Ready4Freddy

It is truly amusing when the lunatics start attacking one another. This is the fruit of identity politics. The “diversity” that the lunatics insist upon can only tear a society apart.


54 posted on 04/21/2010 1:35:33 PM PDT by scory
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To: the_devils_advocate_666
How do you “prove” you are gay? Is there a test?

BOHICA

55 posted on 04/21/2010 1:37:41 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Hand me the popcorn. This is gonna be good.


56 posted on 04/21/2010 1:40:39 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Ready4Freddy

I would think SOFT...BALL would be perfect for Bisexuals....


57 posted on 04/21/2010 1:42:57 PM PDT by BossLady (<----Butler Alumnus - proud of my Dawgs!!!)
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To: MEGoody

LOL, with a headline like that, who could resist posting it?


58 posted on 04/21/2010 1:44:27 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("It's not the number of burnt cars that worries me. It's the fact that everyone finds this normal..")
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To: a fool in paradise

There’s a lot of pitchers in the big leagues but not a lot of big-league pitchers. - Sparky Anderson

Looks like the same goes for pitcher/catcher types, too.


59 posted on 04/21/2010 1:44:33 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (We were hoping for flying unicorns that crapped skittles. We got nationalized health care.)
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To: Ready4Freddy

No headline will ever beat

“Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks”


60 posted on 04/21/2010 1:45:29 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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