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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: HamiltonJay
Any private individual or group can discriminate against whoever they want whenever they want for whatever reason they want, period.

I absolutely agree with you. The funny part is, the homos have been suing trying to force churches, the boy scouts, etc to "let them in". It's funny now that they are being sued for not being as open to others as they want others to be open to them.

61 posted on 04/21/2010 1:45:43 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

How do you “prove” you are gay? Is there a test?

Yes, have them play catcher, if “stuff” starts falling out they pass the test


62 posted on 04/21/2010 1:47:15 PM PDT by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
They weren't rejected for being bi - they were rejected because the team already had too many pitchers and catchers.


63 posted on 04/21/2010 2:36:34 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (FUBO! FUNP! FUHR! FUBS!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Gee Slings, how many people are going to get that joke?

And don’t the homosexual activists have fun excluding not only heterosexuals, but also homosexuals who aren’t pure enough!

As usual, the oppressed become the oppressors.


64 posted on 04/21/2010 3:26:34 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Free Republic needs monthly donors. Pony up and end FReepathons forever!)
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To: Slings and Arrows
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65 posted on 04/21/2010 3:28:27 PM PDT by Clay Moore (Roaches, predators, and thieves typically work under the cover of darkness. So it is with congress.)
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To: TheOldLady
Joke? What joke?


66 posted on 04/21/2010 3:30:17 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (FUBO! FUNP! FUHR! FUBS!)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666
How do you “prove” you are gay? Is there a test?

They use a gaydar gun.
67 posted on 04/21/2010 4:14:07 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666
How do you “prove” you are gay? Is there a test?

They use a gaydar gun.
68 posted on 04/21/2010 4:14:12 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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To: camerongood210
Three bisexual men

As Andrew Dice Clay put it, "You either s... d..., or you do not s... d..., there is no in-between."

70 posted on 04/21/2010 4:44:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dragonblustar

There is already an all-gay team in MLB. They even won the world series last year.


71 posted on 04/21/2010 5:36:06 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: FlyingFish; Slings and Arrows

There were some black guys on the team, but I understand that they are on the DL.


72 posted on 04/21/2010 5:41:56 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Shoot - thought it was genetic.......


73 posted on 04/21/2010 6:09:59 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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To: Ready4Freddy
Ohhhh.... The humanity!!!!

LMAO!!!!

How do you prove you are something that does not exist but in the minds of leftists?

74 posted on 04/21/2010 6:30:29 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Get the popcorn ready, honey!


75 posted on 04/22/2010 8:05:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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To: pogo101
As to these 3 litigants: What do they propose? Tryouts?

ROFLOL!! Who's going to pitch and who's going to catch?

76 posted on 04/22/2010 8:06:38 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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To: MrB
No headline will ever beat “Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks”

I once saw a tabloid in the grocery line that said "Woman Gives Birth to Twins on Roller Coaster"

77 posted on 04/22/2010 8:12:14 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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To: Ready4Freddy

I, too, am not gay enough for softball.


78 posted on 04/22/2010 8:29:04 AM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done a few things in my life I'm not proud of, and the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: broken_arrow1
Gives switch hitter a whole new meaning!

Do they smoke at the end of an in-ing?

79 posted on 04/22/2010 8:36:11 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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