Lesbians in the News
Posted by StormWarning on 05 Jun 2008 at 03:46 pm | Tagged as: Commentary, Opinions, Religion, Social Issues
What more can you say? In my opinion, in this day and age we should be in a more tolerant situation. Two issues, related, arise. First, is the situation at a Seattle Mariners baseball game where two ladies were seen smooching in the stands. It apparently caused some questions (but if it was a macho male and his blonde honey, would it have?).
The Seattle Mariners have concluded that the lesbian couple who claimed Safeco Field staff singled them out for their sexual orientation are wrong.
The ushers who asked 23-year-old Sirbrina Guerrero and her closeted 21-year-old partner to “tone down” their kissing last week acted “appropriately,” the Mariners determined, because they were “responding to the behavior of the couple involved, not because of the couple’s sexual orientation,” Mariners spokeswoman Rebecca Hale wrote in an e-mail this morning (read the full text below).
“In the judgment of the Safeco Field staff, the couple’s actions were not appropriate in a ballpark setting, regardless of the sexual orientation of those involved.”
The second area of interest is the subject of same sex marriages (or unions - or whatever!). Rosie O’Donnell is going to wait until the dust settles before remarrying her partner Kelli Carpenter. Its not too clear whether this is a reflection of wanting to be sure that this marriage won’t eventually be declared invalid, or whether “Rosie’s eyes are straying” (see Elisabeth Hasselbeck).
Suffice to say, I am confused, and frankly, I don’t care. Let the social conservatives worry about this. To my mind the government should stay out of peoples’ love affairs.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, lesbians, ROsie ODonnell
