Seattle Times has this priceless story:
Three bisexual men are suing a national gay-athletic organization, saying they were discriminated against during the Gay Softball World Series held in the Seattle area two years ago.
The three Bay Area men say the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance in essence deemed them not gay enough to participate in the series.
Here’s the background. Three dudes played for a team called “D2” in the 2008 Gay Softball World Series.
The group that puts this sportsapalooza together states that each team can have no more than two heterosexual players. Well D2 smacked around many other teams and one team got mad about it and bitched that the team had too many straight men.
Then the McCarthy type Inquisition began. The three who were suspected of not being gay enough were dragged into a tastefully decorated Star Chamber of sorts in front of more than 25 people, and were asked “personal and intrusive questions” about their “sexual attractions and desires.”
The alliance ruled the three men “nongay,” stripped D2 of its second-place finish and recommended that the three players be suspended from participating in the World Series for a year, according to the suit.
Now, the three men are suing and asking for $75,000 each for emotional distress, invalidating the findings of non-gayness and reinstating the team’s second-place finish.
They’re fighting for second place here, mind you. So to be clear, they’re fighting for the right to be called gay and a loser kinda’ like Adam Lambert.
You seriously can look for years and not find a better story than that on the interwebs. Gay advocates are constantly screaming about discrimination yet the gay softball league has a litmus test on how gay you have to be? Their legal argument seems to be that they’re a private organization and they should be able to discriminate who gets to join. Hmmm. That’s kinda’ the same legal defense as the Boy Scouts, huh?
Hat Tip to Ace.
April 22, 2010 at 4:20 am
THANK YOU for posting this! I love your blog!!
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April 22, 2010 at 4:47 am
Only shows there must be an anti-not-so-LGBT discrimination movement.
April 22, 2010 at 4:58 am
Yep, truth is really stranger than fiction. Nobody could make this stuff up.
April 22, 2010 at 6:54 am
When homosexual activists and their sympathizers cry "discrimination", they're not really concerned about rectifying immoral discrimination. It's merely a card to play in advancing their agenda to force society to normalize homosexual relationships. A story like this proves that they don't care about discrimination. But if yelling that word loudly enough and filing grievances with "human rights commissions" will scare or coerce people into capitulating to their demands, they will use it as a strategy.
April 22, 2010 at 7:11 am
Not to be snarky but are you a Yankee hater?
April 22, 2010 at 12:11 pm
As a Met fan, may I say I truly appreciate the pictures that accompany this story. Truly. LOL
April 22, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Anon, I am a Met fan. Nuff said.
April 22, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Heh-heh, heh-heh, he said "rectifying."
April 22, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Hey… Derek Jeter is a great hitting short-stop, a leader, successful and rich, and a very pretty man. I can see how roid guys like Sheff and Clemens could be attracted to him.
Regarding the actual content of the post, though, I'm a bit confused. If being gay or bi is NOT an indication of how well an athlete can play the game, why should the results of the team be invalidated? It's not like their players are automatically ringers because they're "insufficiently gay" or some other claptrap. Or is the issue that they didn't behave stereotypically enough for the cause?
April 22, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Thinking about that inquisition… If they were faking it, how far would they go to prove their "gayness" just to grab a second place trophy? Come on, it's SECOND place!
April 22, 2010 at 6:28 pm
I think the pictures which accompany this story, in the context of the story, are obscenely suggestive. Did you search Google images for "baseball pictures that suggest gay sex?"
If one of these men were my son or my husband or my brother, I would object to the use of the pictures in this way.
I think you went too far in trying to be funny. Some people here obviously appreciate it and think it is funny. I think it is inappropriate and am made uncomfortable by it.
Perhaps it is another one of those generational things.
Susan Peterson
April 22, 2010 at 8:01 pm
There is a Gay Softball World Series?? Seriously??
Thanks for the post… hilarious.
April 23, 2010 at 1:16 am
hilarious
April 23, 2010 at 7:42 am
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
I will not make jokes about switch hitters!
with no apologies to Bart Simpson
PS Go METS!!!!!!!!
April 23, 2010 at 10:18 pm
LOL!!!!!!
April 23, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Can't. Stop. Laughing!!!! Not gay enough!
I will always chuckle when I hear or think the word switch hitter now!!
Anna B.