Gay Softball Org Allegedly Bans Bi-Sexual Players for…Not Being ‘Gay Enough’?
- Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:41pm by
Billy Hallowell
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A gay men’s softball organization is going head-to-head with three former bi-sexual players who claim that the group unfairly disqualified them for not being “gay enough.”
This week, a federal judge ruled that the organization does, indeed, have the constitutional right to limit the number of heterosexual players on each team (currently, the group allows for two straight players on each team). That said, the judge also ruled that the three players in question may bring their discrimination claims to trial. The Seattle Times has more:
The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance oversees gay softball leagues in dozens of U.S. cities and runs an annual tournament called the Gay Softball World Series. Three men claim in a lawsuit 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 did say that questions remain about the way the softball association applied its rule, including whether the questions asked about the men’s sexuality at a protest hearing were unnecessarily intrusive. Therefore, the case can proceed toward a trial set for Aug. 1, he said.
The men say that they were unfairly questioned about their sexuality in front of an audience and that the group listening to their responses held a vote to determine whether or not they were actually gay. The Daily Mail continues:
The men’s lawsuit alleges that they were individually questioned about their sexuality – in a room containing as many as 25 people. Panel members then voted on whether they men were gay or not.
Seattle attorney Michael Reiss, for NAGAA, said the organisation would ‘vigorously dispute’ the men’s version of events.
Suzanne Thomas, for the the men and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said: ‘No one should have to go through what they experienced.’
Here’s a report from CBS News that explains this scenario further:
Here’s the question at hand: Did the NAGAAA have the right to take these alleged actions? What do you think? This case is sure to be a fascinating one to watch.





















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264win
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:50pmDear Eric Holder,
This had your name written all over it. Could you please Tax Payers money fighting this issue? The gays won’t let the straight guy play?
Ah wait a minute this is would not be part of your cause.
You would only get involved if it was straight team not letting the gay guy play.
There sure is a foul smell coming from Washington and people are starting to see what it is.
Washington will only help Americans that help their cause and ignore everyone else.
That also will change soon.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:49pmAs a Conservative, if you profile, you’re a bigot. I think TSA should profile and stop molesting people who are obviously not a threat. If you’re a Liberal, they do it every day and we know it. You can’t have an all white (anything), but you can have an all black, Latin, Asian, Indian (anything), you can’t have Christian (anything), but you can have any other religion or secular (anything). And then Liberals laugh when we complain about reverse discrimination like we’re just making it up.
BEN SHAPIRO! Thank you for exposing the Liberal hypocrits!
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Apple Bite
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:49pmOld news, almost 2 yrs old in fact….
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:45pmWelcome to “equal rights”, folks. You can’t question the aberration, but the aberration can have any arbitrary rule it likes. It can question you in front of others, and hold its hearings openly. Should you attempt to do so with the aberration, you will be hauled into court.
Thank goodness the government is now involved in matters of sexuality. Thank goodness we now have regulations on every variation of a variant life-style choice. Yay!
The government needs to stay out of people’s lives. Discrimination is a good thing. Let fruit cakes be fruit cakes with other fruit cakes and exclude whomever they want, but support my right to exclude fruit cakes whenever I want.
Honestly, if it’s a private organization (or business), it‘s no one’s business but the business owner and the consumers.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:36pmThey might be discriminating and they should be sued if that’s the case. The only other thing I can think of, is if the other players aren’t any good at playing ball and their little feelings got hurt for being cut. They don’t have this issue in the Gay bowling leagues, anyone that is ok being around gay men and women can join the bowling leagues. That’s never been the problem/issue.
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:34pmtry explaining this to God later.
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:27pmIf it is a private league… fine. If it is a publicly funded league… not cool.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:22pmEither you ___ ___ or you don’t ___ ___. Their is no in between.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 8:10pm@This Individual
I wonder what’s with the blanks within your statement?
Report Post »harumph
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:16pmWhat is the reason to broadcast your sexual proclivities? Perhaps it‘s just a gay dating service and they don’t want to lose members.
Report Post »70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:15pmEnough of the stories about Weiner.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:12pmIt’s only a movie.
Report Post »It’s only a movie.
It’s only a movie.
Question: If they can “constitutionally” limit the number of straights on each gay team, what’s the limit of gays on a straight team?
Answer: 100…if they claim discrimination.
It’s the end of the world as we knew it.
Ookspay
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:12pmCall it what you want, try to make it seem as normal as you want. It is still un-natural and wierd, God will decide if it is sinful. Being Gay or how a person acieves orgasm is no business of mine. Just stay the hell off my porch!
Report Post »Michael G
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:06pmEvery team needs a couple of players that swing from both sides of the plate
Report Post »Country
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:05pmThem hypocrites!
Report Post »republic2011
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:03pmBoy. If only the Boy Scouts of America would do this. What type of outcry’s would you hear then?
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:07pmwe have already heard it, they gays creed foul,and sued ,now they are allowed in the boy scouts, but { no pun intend } they will not allow a quarter straight people to play with their clubs.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:12pmsorry my bad, should read, the gays cried foul and sued.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:01pmnow who is the racist, well people the gays can’t play that card anymore,
Report Post »BiteMePETA
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:57pmWasn’t this story already on here? I know I saw it like a month ago somewhere?
Why do we insist of falling for the line that people are “gay”…. That sets them apart as something special when they are nothing of the sort. You don’t see folks running around and announcing they are heterosexual?
They are people to have gross sex with people of their own gender. That is it. It is an action… not a group of people. The government of all institution should not know what behaviors a person has. How can we truely be a free country if the government divides us up into groups? Answer: we can’t…. but then again, we all know the real answer… they are using the government to force acceptance of a behavior, so unless they treat people with this behavior as a “group” with speical attention, then they can not control us, right? Of course I’m right.
http://www.scottsnetwork.com/net/currentevents.aspx?g=posts&t=8078
Report Post »redsred
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:28pmHey Bite
it’s not just acceptance. Every one I have ever met wants APPROVAL!!! the words restraint, self confidence and self esteem are not in their vocabulary. they crave approval like cats crave fish (no pun intended)
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:56pmYou cant make this stuff up.
A gay men’s softball organization is going head-to-head
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:00pm@ let us prey, i was waiting on your post. and funny as usual . thanks for the laugh.
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:08pm@ let us prey
You cant make this stuff up.
A gay men’s softball organization is going head-to-head
Your commint made me hit my knee so hard my dog felt it!
You Just cant make this sh*t up
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:15pm@oldasdirt, you alright?? he can be funny , i can’t believe he did not use beats for some commit.
Report Post »richard bensen
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:16pmI wonder who handles the (soft) balls?
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:20pm@richard benson, either the shortstop, or the bat boys.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:22pmLOL .. thanks for “keeping it clean” and still giving us a good laugh!
TEA!
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:54pmVomit! & ambomination
Report Post »Spyder
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:54pmWow! The Irony is so thick, I could probably build a skyscraper with it. Here is a group of people who want society to accept them for what they are and not what they do in their private lives; yet they are not accepting of others slightly outside of their own group. FAIL! Oh, and Congratulations! You just justified other peoples prejudices against you, you Morons.
Report Post »chickenlittle
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:53pmWTF?????? Such blatant sex discrimination? Guess it only works one way, huh? If you want an exclusive perversion, that’s cool, but if you want a Christian organization like the Boy Scouts, then you’re outta luck. Sounds like Islam… religious diversity is necessary (at least until we’ve stamped out everybody else). Tolerance my ass[imilation].
Report Post »White Ninja
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:05pmJust like racism it only works one way. Can you imagine a straight team interrogating members they suspected of being gay? “Are you now or have you ever been a homosexual?” that would go over well.
Report Post »PIL
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:57pmThe Boy Scouts won the right to keep gays out. What they didn’t win was the right to receive funding and free rent by cities that disagree with them. Besides, private groups discriminate all the time. Want to work for Focus on the Family? It helps if you’re a Christian. Want to join a women-only gym? It helps if you’re a woman. I can understand gays not liking bisexuals, after all, bi’s use gays for sex while marrying women and having children with them.
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USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 4:11pmWas going to say the same thing but you did a great job
And to you PIL Their Qu Married or not
Report Post »I Hear the Wolves
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:51pmI think I speak for all true Americans when I say, WHO CARES!
But, since I’m here, let me just say, there is no such thing as kind of gay, or half-gay. If you’re a man, and you find other men sexually appealing, you’re gay. Period.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:16pmI care to some extent. Just look at the hypocricy in this! What happened to all the tollerance talk about homosexuality that comes from these perverts.
This is hillarious! Can we call them ‘bi-sexualphobes’ or something?
How come homos refuse to let straights or other types of perverts in their little ‘club’, but they scream bloody murder if we don’t want them around our kids in Boyscouts or whatever??
It’s okay with them to force their agenda on us, but they want to pick and choose who they play ball with.
They sound like a bunch of jealous little bitches because the ‘bi guys’ like girls too.
Just goes to show that if your that confused about sexuality, then you are hopelessly confused about everything!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:23pmThanks Blaze, for censoring my reference to female dogs in my previous post!
Report Post »I’m a bad man……………………..
Bhaub
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 3:08pmHi there,
You’re forgetting that bisexuality is, in fact, real. It’s a common problem here to forget about reality, but I’ll help!
Men who ONLY like men = homosexual
Men who like BOTH men and women = bisexual
Men who ONLY like women = heterosexual
See? It’s so simple. Now you can correct your statements without seeming ignorant to how the world is. :D
Report Post »I Hear the Wolves
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 3:47pmBhaub, let me type slowly, so you don’t miss anything.
Men who sleep with other men are gay.
It doesn’t matter if they like women too. You can put whatever name on it you like, it doesn’t make that man any less gay than the dude who only likes dudes.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:50pmBhaub… thanks for clearing that up.
Men that like men are gay.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:52pmBeing a switch hitter is too gay if you ask me.
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 7:00am@ CROYCE… That’s because we a CONSERVATIVES, not republicans per se, dope.. Big difference ..Yes we may vote republican only because thats where our conservative choces line up .
Report Post »I’ll tell ya , go all the way.. Go liberal , we don’t need a wishy washy moron at a time when it really counts.. Oh and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out…
T-2
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:49pmmust resist making gay soft balls jokes…
Report Post »Country
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:06pmIs that because softball is a girly sport?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:19pmCountry
Watch the Women’s NCAA college world series going on right now. Bet you couldn’t even touch the ball when pitched.. Bet you would get wobbly knees just standing in there. What is the test for the Gayness Scale?? And what do they call the scale?
Report Post »The Fwank Scale?
Country
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:42pm@13th Imam, I am a female and you will not see me out there playing against the Women’s NCAA college world series. No problem there. You won’t see the girly men playing agaisnt them either. The scale would be, real men play baseball the girly men don’t. ;)
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 7:20pmI’ll bet most of those gay players just suck!
Report Post »Country
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 10:38am@orkydorky, LOL that’s funny!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:49pmI don’t EVEN want to know what they do during the 7th inning stretch!
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:57pmMaybe they can ask Congressman Wee-ner?
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:09pmit is not singing, take me out to the old ball park, more like ,the eye of the tiger,or we will rock you.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:16pmhey blaze, this was a reply to someones post where did it go???
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:18pmhey this was a reply to the almighty creestof .what gives.
Report Post »brian8793
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 6:32pmSorry, I just noticed you said the same joke as me. It’s still funny though.lol
Report Post »richard bensen
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:48pmI wouldn‘t touch this with a 10’ft pole.If a man puts his tool in another man and also cohorts with women you can’t get anymore homosexual than that.I say let them play ball just watch the bats….
Report Post »Cptnjarhead
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:54pmthats GAY!
biohazard23
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:00pmWould they be reinstated if the, er, men in question wore ruby slippers as they sang “I Will Survive”?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:10pmLOL .. so much for “tolerance” …
TEA!
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:14pmomg, that is discrimination period. If there was a straight softball organization and they banned a gay, the courts would have a field day. sue them, sue them, sue them, give the gays a taste of their own medicine.
Report Post »meamerican
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:17pmOhhh the irony of this – Aren’t gays the ones always asking for equal treatment?
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:20pmIsn’t that profiling and discrimination? Talk about hypocrisy, I have really seen it now.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:25pmThey held a vote! LOL! To only see the *GASP*! *SHOCK*! *HORROR*! look on their faces when told they weren’t gay enough! HaHa!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:35pm@kickinback, would have love to had a camera,that photo would have been priceless.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:37pmLet me get the straight. Gays don’t want to be discriminated against, but they are discriminating against others?
Report Post »CRoyce
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:37pmI have to tell you.. when I first started reading this site I was a die hard republican. But the rampant small mindness spewed amongst the comments on this site have really pushed me more toward the middle. I’ve lost respect for Beck as a result of many of these articles and the shameless scam advertising & I’ve lost respect for my fellow republicans due to their blatant hatred for anyone different than themselves. I certainly could never call myself a democrat.. but I’m ashamed to call myself a republican after seeing the kinds of responses posted here. As a result of this site, I’ve gone from being a die hard “listen to Beck religiously” fan to a “whatever, next channel” fan.
Report Post »BeerSnob
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:44pm@croyce
Report Post »Sounds like you’re turning into a libertarian. It’s a great place to be – as long as you don’t mind everybody hating you. I will agree, there are a lot of religous wacko’s and racists here, but it’s still
a better source for “out of the mainstream” news than WND.
desertkid
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:46pmThe gays are at it again changing the rules to fit their needs. Now it’s get rid of the switch hitter in baseball.
Report Post »adouglass1
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:56pmThis is just fing nasty why am I even commenting on this I feel like a need a shower!! What has this world come to their is no im a little gay or im a little killer. If you do it you are it period!! Stop condoning this effing behavior when my child shows bad behavior I discipline them. These gays and whatnot need some discipline, just because you can do something does not mean you should. I am sure that it would make me feel good not to pay my taxes and have a blast in Vegas but should I? I am also sure that I would love to not pay my mortgage but hey I did sign a contract but oh well whats a piece of paper right? People these days will pay for their disgusting immoral behavior. Makes me want to just pack up my fam and find a cave somewhere and just ride all this crap out. I refused to get attacked by zombies(i dont mean the flesh eating ones) those i could deal with. The zombies I mean are the ones doesnt matter if Black White Yellow Green whatever the ones that think that life has no consequences and they should only care about themselves and not others. While I agree that some people should and can be helped I also feel that their are some that should not. I.e the dont cast your pearls to pigs verse in the Bible.
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 2:22pm“NAGAAA” ??? really?? bbbbbwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhaaaaaaaa
Report Post »bjc535
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 2:40pmcan you see the hate will never end…..lol
Report Post »BeerSnob
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 2:46pm@whitey4
That should be “NAGAA… Pleaassse!”
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 2:47pmlet them play with their own balls.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 3:05pmSimple discrimination – Gays scream they aren’t treated equally, then pull stunts like this.
Report Post »If you want EQUALITY, you have to mean equality for everybody.
Just because you feel wronged by the Boy Scouts or somebody, doesn’t make it right for you to do the same to them.
Discrimination is discrimination, regardless of who initiates it, or who suffers. It is wrong.
American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 3:37pm@CROYCE Welcome to Libertarianism. As the other commenter said, be prepared to be hated by both sides now. It’s always a fun time.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 3:46pmNot Gay enough? Just what kind of soft ball do they want them to play with?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 4:20pmScore A Home Run??
Report Post »Ok,Ok no more Gay BB jokes, SORRY Blaze !!
I’ll be Good !! ..NOBAMA-2012
HillBillySam1
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 5:13pmRules are rules……if you can’t throw the back-door slider, then you can’t play in the Gay Leagues……sorry…..
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:45pm3 Cheers for tolerance!
Report Post »“Hip-Hip You’re Gay!”
“Hip-Hip You’re Gay!”
“Hip-Hip You’re Gay!”
jb.kibs
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:51pmreally? they have no clue how it feels to be discriminated against? they must have been lying about everything they’ve said…
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:08pmI don’t think there is alot of MEN wanting to play BALL in a gay league who are not gay. The sign up process should be :
Report Post »Do you want to play ball in our gay league? Good, see you in the locker room…
MiketheTrucker
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 10:39pmHEY, that’s a hate crime!
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 12:46amWhole new meaning to foul balls.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 5:45amI guess it is time for the bi’s to take their balls and go home. LOL
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 6:50amFunny how they are on the other side of the fence (so to speak) when it comes to issues like gays in the military…
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 6:52am@ RICHARD BENSEN..quote : I wouldn‘t touch this with a 10’ft pole. But there you go with your opinion and touching it with a ten foot pole.. DUH !!!
Report Post »RJGUSA
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 9:17amHmm..A league that’s top heavy with Pitchers & Catchers…interesting…
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 10:11amTo me, the surprise is that a Federal Judge ruled that sexual discrimination was okay. Would he also rule that a softball team could exclude blacks? How about a softball team excluding Muslims? The judge is clearly wrong, and is condoning discrimination. Perhaps he is gay?
I notice how people like CRoyce, use articles on the Blaze, purely to bash others. You will notice that they don’t respond to the substance of the article, but use it to insult or denigrate others (usually entire groups) they don’t like.
I’m supposed to believe that CRoyce was a stellar Republican, knew all about the plank, supported Republicans running for office, donated his time and energy to electing the best Republicans, but after reading what “Blazers” wrote, he has decided against being a Republican. In fact, because of the comments from “Blazers,” he has even lost all respect for his once loved Glenn Beck.
Right. Just another attempt to broad brush people, put them in your little boxes and try to justify your bias. Didn’t work.
Report Post »Redhandpaddy
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 4:50pmA baseball team without switch hitters?
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