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Games brought freedom, joy to two rural men in love
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 7/25/2006 | Mark Konkol

Posted on 07/25/2006 7:51:01 AM PDT by Mike Bates

Athletically speaking, Gay Games VII was a joke. Everybody knows true competition shouldn't include hefty figure skaters, any kind of line dancing or games best played with a beer in your hand. More than winning medals and breaking records, Gay Games participants talked of the importance of participating, having fun, being "out and proud," making strides toward a more accepting America and all that jazz.

All around Chicagoland, guys kissed guys in the on-deck circle. Girls kissed girls between billiard matches. They didn't feel afraid or scared or judged.

And in those eight days of reprieve -- something special happened to a couple of guys from a tiny farm town in central Indiana.

During the opening ceremonies, Lee and Joe -- volunteer firefighters from a town of 600 -- hugged each other on the wide concourse behind the Soldier Field seats.

For Joe, it was this special moment or never. He gathered together all his courage and asked Lee, "Will you marry me?"

He slid a ring off his delicate ring finger, squeezed it on Lee's giant pinky, cutting off all circulation. They looked at each other and cried, big happy tears. Lee said, "Yes."

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: brokeback; dementedfreaks; deviants; eeeeyyyyuuucckk; gaychatroom; gross; grotesque; homosexualagenda; ignorantmedia; perverts; sicksick; sicksicksick
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To: MSM Hater

Sometimes I forget that we're such sensitive souls around here.


41 posted on 07/25/2006 8:37:41 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: 50sDad

Degeneracy desperately seeking legitimacy. Sickness of the soul seeking to infect the entire world with their deadly rebellion, seeking to recruit the world to join them in reveling in what God says He find an abomination. Not difficult to see why it fits so snugly with liberal, like the liberalism driving the democrat party ... the leftist liberal technique for equality is to drag everyone as a nation down to some less than noble level. Why else would liberals seek to raise degenerate sexuality (and that covers a lot more than homosexuality) and murder of the alive unborn to the level of God given rights? Sickness in the soul ...


42 posted on 07/25/2006 8:38:38 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: johnny7
You win!

What a purdy mouth.

43 posted on 07/25/2006 8:38:43 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: L98Fiero
I LOVE women. Just LOVE 'em! When I was in first grade, though, I had absoloutely NO interest in girls.

I did. My interest mainly extended to not getting beat up by one.

44 posted on 07/25/2006 8:39:11 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

We try not to be judgmental; but sometimes something just slips out, don't be afraid.


45 posted on 07/25/2006 8:39:57 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Mike Bates
"making strides toward a more accepting America"

Ill bet they wouldnt let my heterosexual ass join in the games.
46 posted on 07/25/2006 8:41:16 AM PDT by xpertskir (McCain Lieberman '08(democratic ticket))
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To: Mike Bates

Nothing sensitive about it. It's a natural reaction to things unnatural and perverse. I have the same reaction when I see severed limbs or triumphant democrat candidates.


47 posted on 07/25/2006 8:42:50 AM PDT by MSM Hater (Shame on Senators DeRino and VRinovich!)
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To: Mike Bates

"Everybody knows true competition shouldn't include hefty figure skaters,"

I would have thought figure skating to be the one sport where the top talent would be right at home here...


48 posted on 07/25/2006 8:43:12 AM PDT by Sofa King (A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
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To: L98Fiero

Been a vocal proponent of the "back in the closet and shut up" crowd for years. Anyone here part of the vocal hetero's who have "come out", crowd. I thought not.


49 posted on 07/25/2006 8:43:21 AM PDT by wita (truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
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To: johnny7

The guy is a construction worker - I doubt he wears a tutu.


50 posted on 07/25/2006 8:46:10 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: 50sDad
Several years back, I was sitting watching the news with my grandfather, who was 96 at the time. They had a news clip about the "gay pride" parade in New York. He said, "I am almost 100 years old. I could live another 100 years, and never understand what in the f*ck is the matter with those people!"
To me, that says it all.
51 posted on 07/25/2006 8:46:25 AM PDT by wjcsux (I would prefer to have the German army in front of me than the French army behind me- Gen. G. Patton)
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To: Sofa King

That's what I've always said. Why do they need the Gay Games, when we already have Men's Olympic Figure Skating?


52 posted on 07/25/2006 8:48:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Quilla
Tough hand to beat.

And he went wee wee wee... all the way home.

53 posted on 07/25/2006 8:48:50 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: dfwgator

"And we're the intolerant ones?"

There was a time when I could have cared less who was gay, what they were up to, etc. Now that they started shoving it in my face on what seems like a daily basis and hating me because I think they should keep it in the bedroom.

I has a friend that came out later in life and you couldn't really tell he was gay. He found that he absoloutely hated "the lifestyle". My favorite quote from him: Being gay isn't so bad if you can avoid all the queers and queens.

My cousin is gay and is the polar opposite. Flagrant, prissy, hate-filled attention-whore who acts cultured and talks Broadway with his friends even though he's never been near New York. He got POed at me because I refused to go see "Kinsey" with him and his "friend of the week". Closed-minded, he called me, even though I knew far more about Kinsey than he did. He's 37 and never dated anyone older than college age. I had dinner with them a few months ago and his "friend" couldn't even order a beer. He also refuses to date white people. He teaches band in a middle school. Scary.


54 posted on 07/25/2006 8:51:38 AM PDT by L98Fiero (I'm worth a million in prizes.)
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To: edcoil
"..guys kissed guys in the on-deck circle."

Is there a mis-spelling in that line somewhere?

"Girls kissed girls between billiard matches.."

Glad it didn't say between the 8-balls.

55 posted on 07/25/2006 8:53:57 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Mike Bates

"They didn't feel afraid or scared or judged."

In the meantime, it's perfectly all right to judge heterosexuals as breeders, Republicans as racists, straight men as wifebeaters, Bush as Hitler or a moron (you pick the one you like), censor opinions about homosexuality, force private people into the spotlight because you want to "out" them, and shove an ideology down the throats of unwilling families in schools.

In the words of P.J. O'Rourke: Will the love that dare not speak its name finally shut up?


56 posted on 07/25/2006 8:59:29 AM PDT by redpoll (redpoll)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

The "two rural men in love" part of the title was pretty much a Barf Alert by its self.


57 posted on 07/25/2006 9:03:02 AM PDT by VRWCtaz (A challenge to Liberals: I will read any book you name - if you will do the same. (very few takers))
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To: Quilla

wtf is that, I mean why is that not in an insane asylum.


58 posted on 07/25/2006 9:13:20 AM PDT by Ainast
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To: isthisnickcool
He slid the feces covered peni$.....

Can't say find that any more appealing as a description of heterosexual sex.

But apparently around a quarter of heterosexuals disagree with me, so IMO it's not a "gay" issue.

59 posted on 07/25/2006 9:24:55 AM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas (More of the same, only with more zeros at the end.)
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To: M. Dodge Thomas
But apparently around a quarter of heterosexuals disagree with me, so IMO it's not a "gay" issue.

When a post flys right over your head it flys right over you head, eh?

60 posted on 07/25/2006 11:05:08 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (You! Shake your junk!)
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