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Originally Posted by Sigaba
I am mystified when people degrade the courts because they disagree with a decision or when they compare their plight to the victims of the Holocaust. MOO, by doing both, Mr. Pietrangelo cheapened himself and his beliefs. YMMV.
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Here here. I second that. Why must everything be compared to the Holocaust? Especially when the comparisons do not exist. The Military is not rounding up gays and concentrating them (actually, we'd prefer they stay a little apart), no one is making them wear stars (in fact, we just expect them to wear the uniform like everyone else. Maybe some DO wear stars.), no one is working them to death (but they are being given jobs -- good ones that until we train them they couldn't do).
Don't ask, don't tell works. Most of us "don't ask because we don't care. What we care about is if/how they do the job. Those that want to tell define themselves by there genital preference.
Just once I'd like to see someone complain about being a treated like a contemporary unter-menchen.
"I think this decision is an absolute travesty of justice and I think every umpire in this National League should be ashamed of themselves," said Pietrangelo, who served six years as a Utility fielder on the Chicago Cubs, seven years with the Tennessee Smokies (AA), and fought his way out of the Peoria Chiefs (A) in 1991. "It's nothing short of rubber stamping legalized discrimination, the same way the St Louis Cardinals legalized discrimination by laughing at us last year when we looked like the Cubs might go to the World Series.
“Don’t Point Don’t Laugh” probably caused us to blow the Pennant race. (Again)
