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	<title>Comments on: Sheryl Swoopes Comes Out as Lesbian</title>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sheryl_swoopes_comes_out_as_lesbian/comment-page-1/#comment-63241</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was reading the article about sheryl and i was truely sadend by this.  Not becasue she came out and said she was gay.  I think sheryl is a great ball player and I give her props for that.  I don&#039;t know her as a person but I am sure she is a nice lady, It seems she does a lot for communitties and stuff.  Thats awesome, but the truth is that God looks down upon this ungodly ac of lust.  I have nothing against gay people at all.  But the act of beign gay and sleeping with the same sex is not accepted by God.  This is why I was sadend by the article.  True love comes only through God.  Sheryl did not take a step forward in beign true to herself.  She fell far a way from her savior Jesus Christ.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was reading the article about sheryl and i was truely sadend by this.  Not becasue she came out and said she was gay.  I think sheryl is a great ball player and I give her props for that.  I don't know her as a person but I am sure she is a nice lady, It seems she does a lot for communitties and stuff.  Thats awesome, but the truth is that God looks down upon this ungodly ac of lust.  I have nothing against gay people at all.  But the act of beign gay and sleeping with the same sex is not accepted by God.  This is why I was sadend by the article.  True love comes only through God.  Sheryl did not take a step forward in beign true to herself.  She fell far a way from her savior Jesus Christ.</p>
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		<title>By: PoliBlog:  Politics is the Master Science</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sheryl_swoopes_comes_out_as_lesbian/comment-page-1/#comment-62420</link>
		<dc:creator>PoliBlog:  Politics is the Master Science</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Takei Out of the Closet&lt;/strong&gt;

	Via AP:  George Takei Discloses His Homosexuality
George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angele...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Takei Out of the Closet</strong></p>
<p>	Via AP:  George Takei Discloses His Homosexuality<br />
George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angele...</p>
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		<title>By: Pagana Lesbian</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sheryl_swoopes_comes_out_as_lesbian/comment-page-1/#comment-62389</link>
		<dc:creator>Pagana Lesbian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah Sheryl!!! go Sheryl go!!! go Sheryl go!!!  go Sheryl go!!!

 Oh please you  bleached brain washed Christians are mad. The only judgement day is when you die and find out there is no such thing; hahahahahh...   Sheryl is not going to hell for being gay, but your in hell for thinking she is.

Long live Pagan thought spirituality and the right to be a Lesbian.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah Sheryl!!! go Sheryl go!!! go Sheryl go!!!  go Sheryl go!!!</p>
<p> Oh please you  bleached brain washed Christians are mad. The only judgement day is when you die and find out there is no such thing; hahahahahh...   Sheryl is not going to hell for being gay, but your in hell for thinking she is.</p>
<p>Long live Pagan thought spirituality and the right to be a Lesbian.</p>
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		<title>By: An Interested Party</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sheryl_swoopes_comes_out_as_lesbian/comment-page-1/#comment-62317</link>
		<dc:creator>An Interested Party</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Iâm also sick and tired of anyone publicly sticking their foul moral values down my throat.&quot;

Are you equally as sick and tired of those who would stick their religious beliefs down anyone&#039;s throat?  

And what is so radical about her discovering her sexuality?  That can still mesh with her being born gay...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Iâm also sick and tired of anyone publicly sticking their foul moral values down my throat."</p>
<p>Are you equally as sick and tired of those who would stick their religious beliefs down anyone's throat?  </p>
<p>And what is so radical about her discovering her sexuality?  That can still mesh with her being born gay...</p>
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		<title>By: ICallMasICM</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sheryl_swoopes_comes_out_as_lesbian/comment-page-1/#comment-62260</link>
		<dc:creator>ICallMasICM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#039;&quot;Your kids will never grow up to be anything or anybody.&quot; &#039;

She&#039;s got the victimology thing down pat.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'"Your kids will never grow up to be anything or anybody." '</p>
<p>She's got the victimology thing down pat.</p>
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		<title>By: anjin-san</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sheryl_swoopes_comes_out_as_lesbian/comment-page-1/#comment-62218</link>
		<dc:creator>anjin-san</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought &quot;let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone&quot; was a Christian value...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought "let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone" was a Christian value...</p>
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		<title>By: aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.</title>
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		<dc:creator>aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Out in the WNBA&lt;/strong&gt;

I was at a lecture about Southern women in the 19th century last night. One story told was of a man who took his black mistress north to marry her. Those left behind tried to have the man ruled insane...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Out in the WNBA</strong></p>
<p>I was at a lecture about Southern women in the 19th century last night. One story told was of a man who took his black mistress north to marry her. Those left behind tried to have the man ruled insane...</p>
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		<title>By: Julie Crum</title>
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		<dc:creator>Julie Crum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is awesome. It&#039;s about time someone stood up for who they are and can stand up and say who they love is important enough to take a risk against all of you judgemental people. I wouldn&#039;t even say &quot;Christians&quot; because I have some very loving, open, accepting, straight and gay Christian friends. Good for Sheryl for passsing the meesage about &quot;Love&quot; and not &quot;hate&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is awesome. It's about time someone stood up for who they are and can stand up and say who they love is important enough to take a risk against all of you judgemental people. I wouldn't even say "Christians" because I have some very loving, open, accepting, straight and gay Christian friends. Good for Sheryl for passsing the meesage about "Love" and not "hate"</p>
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		<title>By: DL</title>
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		<dc:creator>DL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why should we care what any athelete or celebrity thinks about anything except what they&#039;re famous for. I could care what my dentist think about my fly-casting technique!

I&#039;m also sick and tired of anyone publicly sticking their foul moral values down my throat. It&#039;s way past time for all these folk to start being sensitive to my Christian values.

Christians have a right to be offended too!
Kepp your sins to yourself, because societal approval won&#039;t change your lot on Judgment Day one stinking bit!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why should we care what any athelete or celebrity thinks about anything except what they're famous for. I could care what my dentist think about my fly-casting technique!</p>
<p>I'm also sick and tired of anyone publicly sticking their foul moral values down my throat. It's way past time for all these folk to start being sensitive to my Christian values.</p>
<p>Christians have a right to be offended too!<br />
Kepp your sins to yourself, because societal approval won't change your lot on Judgment Day one stinking bit!</p>
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		<title>By: SportsBlog</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sheryl_swoopes_comes_out_as_lesbian/comment-page-1/#comment-62131</link>
		<dc:creator>SportsBlog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Sheryl Swoopes Comes Out as Lesbian&lt;/strong&gt;

WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes has written a long column for ESPN the Magazine announcing that she&#039;s a lesbian and explaining why she&#039;s going public. Swoopes comes out, in her words My father wasn&#039;t around -- I&#039;ve never met him --...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Sheryl Swoopes Comes Out as Lesbian</strong></p>
<p>WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes has written a long column for ESPN the Magazine announcing that she's a lesbian and explaining why she's going public. Swoopes comes out, in her words My father wasn't around -- I've never met him --...</p>
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		<title>By: Will Franklin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Will Franklin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She destroyed the reputation of the University of Texas&#039; women&#039;s basketball team for several years with her allegations about unwanted lesbian advances from people there.

She transfered to Texas Tech after that, and UT&#039;s basketball team had a terrible time recruiting for a few years because of her outspoken &quot;UT&#039;s squad is filled with lesbians&quot; kind of talk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She destroyed the reputation of the University of Texas' women's basketball team for several years with her allegations about unwanted lesbian advances from people there.</p>
<p>She transfered to Texas Tech after that, and UT's basketball team had a terrible time recruiting for a few years because of her outspoken "UT's squad is filled with lesbians" kind of talk.</p>
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		<title>By: Anderson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I suspect her revelation that she wasn&#039;t &quot;born gay&quot; but rather &quot;discovered&quot; it will not sit well with some in the gay activist community.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Well, it&#039;s a bit contradictory, isn&#039;t it?  How can you &quot;discover&quot; what&#039;s not already there?

But the distinction seems a bit metaphysical at best.  Gay-activist essentialism is more a rhetorical tool than a really thought-out position.  Cf. &quot;one isn&#039;t born a woman, one becomes one.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I suspect her revelation that she wasn't "born gay" but rather "discovered" it will not sit well with some in the gay activist community.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, it's a bit contradictory, isn't it?  How can you "discover" what's not already there?</p>
<p>But the distinction seems a bit metaphysical at best.  Gay-activist essentialism is more a rhetorical tool than a really thought-out position.  Cf. "one isn't born a woman, one becomes one."</p>
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		<title>By: odograph</title>
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		<dc:creator>odograph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Didn&#039;t I just hear a statistic somewhere that girls who play highschool basketball are less likely to become teen mothers?  (was that Rev. Jackon&#039;s comment on TV?)

... perhaps &quot;getting them interested in basketball&quot; doesn&#039;t have all the connotations he was looking for ;-).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Didn't I just hear a statistic somewhere that girls who play highschool basketball are less likely to become teen mothers?  (was that Rev. Jackon's comment on TV?)</p>
<p>... perhaps "getting them interested in basketball" doesn't have all the connotations he was looking for ;-).</p>
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