Posted on 06/02/2011 8:10:36 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A gay softball organization that runs an annual tournament called the Gay Softball World Series can keep its rule limiting the number of heterosexual players on each team, a federal judge has ruled.
The decision came in a lawsuit filed by three men who say they were disqualified from the annual tournament because they weren't gay enough. They said in the suit filed last year that their team's second-place finish in the 2008 tournament in Washington state was nullified because they are bisexual, not gay, and thus their team exceeded the limit of two non-gay players.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said Tuesday that their suit can proceed to trial. But he also ruled that the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, which also oversees gay softball leagues in dozens of U.S. cities, has a First Amendment right to limit the number of heterosexual players, much as the Boy Scouts have a constitutional right to exclude gays.
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Jones batting, Smith on deck, and everyone else is in the Hole.
Now that´s funny.
Did they really have a straight person complaining?
For God´s sake, get high school and college females into baseball. This softball lunacy is ingrained, but untrue.
Uh, the point is can they play ball?
Trying my best not to give a damn.
buncha heterophobics
Excellent and proper ruling. We have an absolute right to freedom of association. We need to return to it.
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