What Do the Boy Scouts, Westboro Baptist Church, and Gay Softball Have In Common?

Amen. Sometimes I just do not want to deal with straight people.

I’m straight and I agree with you. (Even though I don’t agree with the two Supreme Court decisions that were cited by the judge). Just like men’s clubs have the right to deny women entrance based on gender, and other clubs and sports teams have the right to deny entrance based on age, sexual orientation falls into the same catagory. It’s not (always) discrimination and if it’s not, it’s legal. Sometimes men just want to be around men, women around women, and gays around gays. It’s a natural human want and need to be around people like you, whether that is based on gender, age or sexual orientation.

Okay, i hope I explained myself clearly. I don’t usually respond to these things.

In fact, this ‘is’ discrimination. Which isn’t to say it should be illegal or should necessarily stop, but let’s be clear: When you restrict participation based on exclusive criteria, you are discriminating against everyone who does not meet that criteria.

Personally, I find this instance of discrimination to be idiotic. Legal, and well within the league’s right’s as a private entity, but still counterproductive to the gay community as a whole. If we want to be accepted for who we are, we shouldn’t be alienating people who clearly are willing to accept their fellow team-mates. So what if they’re straight? As long as they’re not haters, let’em hit the damn ball.

As a recovering hate addict, I do empathize with the members of the Westboro Baptist Church. The elders become enablers and influence the children to use vitriolic language. They become isolated because many of us show hatred towards them so passionately. What would help is if the sexually liberated community came together and supported their recovery from hate-dependence.  

I’m going to assume you were just very busy and so completely misread the complaint and subsequent lawsuit.  So let me clear up the situation for you. 

This has Nothing to do with any so-called ”Straight People”. 
 
The people in question aren’t “Straight”.  The men are bisexual, you know the “B” in LGBT?  You may have heard of us, the majority of people it in the greater Queer Community?

Bisexual people are explicitly invited to be part of the sports league.  Despite the catch-all title of “Gay” you may seen thrown about in the media, the league’s mission statement explicitly state that is actually there for ALL non-straight people, that would be gay men, lesbian women and also bisexual and trans folk.  Most of the teams in the league actually abide by the rules and have happily had teams that include the entire LGBT Rainbow for years with no trouble at all. 
 
This current situation happened because a few (not all) members as well as many of the (largely) self-appointed “leaders” of the softball league in a major show of bad sportsmanship threw a temper tantrum when the “usual suspects” did not win.  These sore losers started looking around for something (other than the actual explanation, that they had simply been out-played by another team) to blame. 
 
What they hit on was that some of the players on the winning team must be straight!! Because we all know that no non-straight men actually like/are good at sports!  Right?

This group of whiners then took it upon themselves to rewrite the definition of bisexual from:
 
“people with the capacity to be attracted to/form relationships with people of the same gender as well as different gender than themselves” to something more along the lines of: ”people I personally think are cute and that I’d like to have sex with”.  Then this pack of fools grabbed all the people they had decided weren’t “gay-enough” (i.e. people who are both good at sports AND who Id as bisexual) and in front of an impromptu  kangaroo court they first ask personal questions about what the people liked to do in bed and then had everyone vote on “queer” or “no queer enough”. 
 
And you know what?  Somehow all the “cute white boys” were voted “gay enough” and all the people of color weren’t! 
 
Now lets all be Real Clear here.  Every Single One to these men stood up first in front of a room packed with ball-players, officials, families, reporters and assorted spectators and assorted hangers-on AND then later stood up in court and Very Publicly said “Hell yeah! I’m a big ol’ homo and proud of it!”  We aren’t talking about some republican politician or church operative or just some nervous nellie hiding in a closet somewhere.  We are talking about a bunch of people who were already out, proud and active in the community. 
 
And yet these people, who’s little amateur athletics ball-club didn’t win a tournament one year took it upon themselves to vote people out of the LGBT Community just so there ball-team could take home a 1st place trophy.  *SMH*
 
So is it any wonder that the good, decent and fair-minded people in the LGBT Community are outraged?  And that it was the National Center for Lesbian Rights who after trying and failing to get a mediated settlement  were the people who filed suite?