So I am reading the sports page of todays The News & Observer, Raleigh’s daily paper. The front page has the headline, “Closing Ceremonies for the Sydney Olympics will be a drag for some.” Sure enough, a Christian politician in Australia, the Rev. Fred Nile, is complaining because they are going to have a couple of guys in drag at the closing ceremonies in a celebration to acclaimed Aussie films - in this case, The Adventures of Priscilla.
Then I turn to the next page and see a news item with the headline “Dodgers Apologize to Lesbians.”
It seems that the Dodgers ejected a lesbian couple for sharing a kiss at the stadium. They were initially not even told why they were being escorted out of the stadium, but later were told that someone complained and said children should not be exposed to “those people.”
Aside from apologizing, the club is donating 5,000 tickets to three gay & lesbian organizations and promise the usual “sensitivity training.”
All of this in the sports section.
I just wish that someone would tell all of the sports fans who are homophobic and the dumb organizations who would react in stupid ways to these complaints that half of the music that is played at sporting events is by a group which had a gay lead singer who cross-dressed at least once in a while.
“We are the champions?” Doesn’t seem that way…
Yer pal,
Satan
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