99% of the stuff posted here has nothing to do with 99% of the people that read this stuff. It's just general information/gossip. You want real news read the NY Times.

If you want real news and/or the truth the NY Slimes is the last place you would want to look

I couldn't agree with you more. Why do Gay people think that the rest of us cares? Nobody really cares or have anything against Gay people, but they seem to think that they owe us some sort of explanation on why or how they choose the sexuality. Imagine if all of us, non gay people, shout to the world that WE ARE NOT GAY!!!! How bored would gay people get? So, please do me a favor and keep to yourself?
Thanks

"Nobody really cares or have anything against Gay people" might wanna check your sources on this one.

Actually, REVDUP is right...most normal people are sick of every gay "I'm coming out of the closet" announcement. How would gays like it if us normal people made a big announcement every time we had sex? Stop the sick announcements, please.

lol They're not announcing that they are about to have sex. They are doing exactly what us heterosexual folks have done for years: putting their sexual preference out in the open. It's a big deal when it has been fought against for so long, so don't pull the 'nobody cares' card here. People have cared enough to slander, degrade, and even kill; so, it's kinda a big deal.

You rock!

Its exactly because of your comment "us normal" people, that gays make the announcement. How stupid are you to infer not being gay is normal. They make the announcement to folks like you to say...hey I AM GAY and I AM NORMAL

You rock too!

More power to her. I really dont care wheather she is gay or straight. I do care that she is an American Soccer player yet her pic is in front of a British Flag and not an American flag.

Olymics are in London...

I'm guessing that it's a USA Soccer publicity photo done for the upcoming London-based 2012 Olympics. Otherwise it makes zero sense.

"Imagine if all of us, non gay people, shout to the world that WE ARE NOT GAY!!!!"
We do shout it everyday with love/sex scenes in TV shows, movies, magazines, billboards, with public displays of affection, etc. I have no problem with either form of expression. Get over your angst and understand that not everyone has been allowed to be as open as you, and that the 'openess' of our heterosexuality has been so 'automatic' that we lose sight of how often we unconsciously announce it to the world. Then, imagine if you were discouraged for many years of this admitting to the world your love for your heterosexual partner, or being affectionate in any way in public with him/her. After years of this, it begins to become more acceptable for you to speak out about/show this love or passion. How do you think you'd feel? I'd put money on your being just as excited and expressive as the gay community is becoming.

yes, thank you.

Wow, beautifully said! It is people like you who trailblaze for all of us (regardless of sexual orientation). I thank you and my "significant other" thanks you :)

"Nobody really cares?"
That's not true. I care, as well as a lot of other people. That's why it's a news story. People read it. You read it and cared enough to comment.

And yet you read the article and bothered to give a reply. Your "neutrality" is highly suspect.

You guys complaining about this being a waste of your time look sort of stupid. You click on the article, read it, and then comment on it?! You chose to waste your own time, it's not like this title was misleading.

Point well taken CeeEle! Those of us that choose to be sports enthusiasts enjoy the sport and have no room for social commentary about gays or anything else. You are what you are and that shouldn't be the concern of anyone outside your family, medical practioner, or inner cirlce, plain and simple.

No, it shouldn't be anyone's concernl but, unfortunately, countless people have made it their "concern," and this 'outing' is the next step in overcoming all of the neagtivity that has come from that 'concern.' Any sort of 'it's not a big deal' attitude towards what these folks have had to go through is woefully mis-sighted.

The shocker would have been had she said she was not gay. I have better things to do than worry about who's gay or not. The only thing that matters is she can play soccer.

So she or he will be considered equals in today society. It may not be right but it is true society has a problem with their sexual preference.

I guess I missed the part of the internet where you are forced to click on links and read articles against your will.

Don't want to read it? Don't click the link. It's as simple as that.

just wanted to announce i am heterosexual......do you really care?

Who cares?This is tiring.Is this the new fad now,instead of terrorism?The coming out fad?In or out the closet no one cares.

Thank you for equating who a person is and who they love to terrorism. Ignorance at it's best.

i love how people impugn other's ignorance by using phrases like "ignorance at it's best"

Let me see if I can get it correct. dedog12 / yodelladyoo: ignorance at its worst. There, all better?

I don't believe that dedog12 was equating anything to terrorism. A bit of tolerance here would be nice rather than just jumping in and berating someone. I feel pretty much the same way. It'sfine with me if this lady is gay. She has a long time partner and I wish them well. However, their relationship is their business. It doesn't concern anyone else and certainly isn't going to make a difference as to how she plays her sport or how she relates to others. I wish them the very best and maybe at some point they will be joined in a Civil Union like so many others. I just don't think it serves anyone to broadcast her sexual preference or anyone elses. Would it have been news if she were heterosexual? I don't think so....... Because there again, who cares?

If you (or anyone else) thinks that no one broadcasts their heterosexuality, then you haven't ever stood in a grocery store check-out line staring at all of those trashy magazines with who is sleeping with who. Or watched Entertainment Tonight. And why do you think cheerleaders dress the way they do? They are ALL about promoting their heterosexuality to men in the stands. They sure the hell aren't calling plays. That is why the word ignorance came up. Straight people are often ignorant of all the ways they "flaunt" their heterosexuality.

word

So there are no gay cheerleaders in all the world? Who fricking knew???

Wrong. Straights shove their sexuality in socities face all the time, it's just so common place y'all take it for granted. Why don't you straight folks keep your sexuality in the privacy of your own home AND your religion also?

Who cares if a person is straight or christian? I don't need laws being passed to take away my Evolutionary Right to self expression and persuit of happiness! And I certainly don't need to see the straight crap on tv, in front of children, in newspapers, online, etc. It is really disgusting to see!

I'm straight, and I think it's awesome that so many high profile people are coming out. I will never understand what gay people go through, but I'm sure it's similar to what any minority going against the status quo feels/felt.

You're right - it has NOTHING to do with how she plays soccer, but it does have something to do with tolerance and acceptance. And I'm sick of people saying straight people don't say they're straight - BS. We do, all the time. When I check out a guy and tell my friends about it, I'm saying I'm straight, when we hold hands with our significant other in public, we are saying we're straight.

The point is - don't read this if you think it's a "waste of time", and don't comment if you think so, too, because then you just look silly. And if what you all say is true - that you don't care - then why do you have such negative comments? Why comment at all?

Does being homosexual make you play better soccer? No! Then why the heck do we need to know that you're a homosexual? You mean you're craving to come out. Whoop-d doo da day.

Because she doesn't want the world assuming she's straight. You straight people will never EVER understand that.

You're right! We will never understand and we don't care if you're gay or straight. It doesn't apply. Gays are so wanting everyone to feel what they feel. We don't we won't so just be a normal gay and stopp pronouncing your sexuality. Good for you. Just stop bothering us with it. WE DON'T CARE!!!

Religion and government care

Straights shove their sexuality in socities face all the time, it's just so common place y'all take it for granted. Why don't you straight folks keep your sexuality in the privacy of your own home AND your religion also?

Who cares if a person is straight or christian? I don't need laws being passed to take away my Evolutionary Right to self expression and pursuit of happiness! And I certainly don't need to see the straight crap on tv, in front of children, in newspapers, online, etc. It is really disgusting to see!

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Gee, in my entire life I don't think I have ever looked at anyone and "assumed" he or she was straight. That makes it sound like a straight person walks down the street and catagorizes all the people they meet. Gay, straight, transexual, yada, yada... If that's the case life must be pretty dull. You need to quit "assuming" what others are thinking. It would probably make your life a lot happier.

straight people do that all the time. Welcome to earth!

Now you are just lying.

"That makes it sound like a straight person walks down the street and catagorizes all the people they meet."
ummm, that happens all the time.

No, we won't. No more than we -you or me- can understand a child molestor! Most likely, you don't want to understand....I know I don't. I just know that it's perverted. I feel, I'm sure you won't agree, that homosexuality is perverted. Straight, or as I would put it, "normal" people don't want to understand, they feel, most of them, that it's perverted and if you choose to operate that way or as you believe, you were just born that way, to keep it to yourself, go back into hiding, tell the people in your life - those who matter, but stop proclaiming it to the world. It doesn't make you special and you will never be regarded as "normal, just fine, wish I had a gay kid" or whatever else you're looking for. And for the record, yes I know a gay person. I know lots of gay people, one who is particularly close to me....I let him or her know they are loved, I try to understand them personally, but I will never bless the lifestyle nor accept that it is ok....no more than I will accept that "Jerry Sundusky was just showing love" to those young boys/men. Most likely, getting "love showed to them" is why so many males are gay. So you won this argument. Please stop looking for your lifestyle to blessed or mainstreamed. You are gay...you are an outcast. Accept it!

Finally someone who just admits they are homophobic and prejudice. I don't agree with you in the least, but at least you're real i guess

Wow!
Very cool, Zeke.
Straight = Normal, eh?
Uh...a BETTER and more SOUND analogy (if you chose to embrace such avenues) might be: Straight = Healthy.....
but, let's face it, Z .... your whole attitude about gays is anything BUT healthy (I refer here to: Go back into hiding AND You are an outcast).

Very UNcool, actually (so don't think I was actually "complimenting" you earlier).
I betcha you're probably also sorry that the South lost the Civil war too....
that way you could still own a slave or two....because, well.....Bigotry = Normal, right? .....
and which is most certainly TRUE in your particular case!

Straights shove their perversion in socities face all the time, it's just so common place y'all take it for granted. Why don't you straight folks keep your sexuality in the privacy of your own home AND your religion also?

Who cares if a person is straight or christian? I don't need laws being passed to take away my Evolutionary Right to self expression and pursuit of happiness! And I certainly don't need to see the straight crap on tv, in front of children, in newspapers, online, etc. It is really disgusting to see!

It's a fact that over 90% of child molestation comes from straight white christian males as does over 95% of murders and rapes. Normal? If you want to call the straight christian perversion "normal" than you really need a reality check!

You got to be kidding, ( evolutionary right) Give me a break. What did you evolve from? Oh, I get it normal to perverted. Does this mean we all are going to evolve. Obviously confused, but one can get help.

And your point is? Sports is sports.
Personal life is that or it sure should be.
You do a good job with sports. Do what you do best.

its unfortunate that Americans who love sports are most of the time ignorant to everything but sports

On what planet have you lived that "sports is sports." You must not watch ANY sports if you think personal lives don't make the news. Some franchises are BUILT on drama (see: Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders, anything to do with NYC). Seriously?

I thought I'd add some positivity to this article! Good for you Megan!! The bravery to come out shows just how strong of a person you are.

My statements have nothing to do with her with her personally. I wish her well, however knowing she's gay, at least for me nad others, obviously, adds nothing to the Olympics.

What a waste.................

not if you're gay though. Could possibly change someone's life

Waste of what? Like you'd have a chance with her anyway? She's pretty down-to-earth, but she'd never be desperate, either way, that's for sure. No waste, she's just awesome any way you look at her.

The point is, that with all the "hate" and viciousness being thrown at our gay citizens, people who are celebrities and sports figures are letting people know to slowly show hateful people that they are just people like the rest of us. So, that is why high profile people are letting the world know they are gay. They are trying to give other gay citizens strength and trying to stop the hate toward gay people. They are just like the rest of us!

It is not being done because it is a "fad" or just to irritate those of you who do not understand the stress that our gay citizens are being put under. Put yourself in someone else's shoes and have some compassion and understanding, please!

They are not like the rest of us and that is the point. They are perverted

another honest bigot. Thank you for being honest, bigot

You so rock.

Straights shove their perversion in socities face all the time, it's just so common place y'all take it for granted. Why don't you straight folks keep your sexuality in the privacy of your own home AND your religion also?

Who cares if a person is straight or christian? I don't need laws being passed to take away my Evolutionary Right to self expression and pursuit of happiness! And I certainly don't need to see the straight crap on tv, in front of children, in newspapers, online, etc. It is really disgusting to see!

It's a fact that over 90% of child molestation comes from straight white christian males as does over 95% of murders and rapes. Normal? If you want to call the straight christian perversion "normal" than you really need a reality check!

Don't you understand??? We don't mind that you're gay we just don't want to know your PERSONAL SEX LIFE!!! Gays act so stupid about this! You want to be accepted and YOU'RE THE ONES CREATING THE TURMOIL!! It does not apply here to shout out your sexuality!!

you are wrong. Government and religion both condemn homosexuals. You would be creating some noise too if your rights were taken away and you were going to hell (even though it doesn't really exist)

bigez2233, I find it sad that you apparently base your relationships on sex. That is too bad. But, just so you know, being homosexual is not defined by sex. Don't get me wrong - sex is part of it. But it doesn't define it. Perhaps you should try to think about something besides the sexual acts of strangers? No thanks needed, I'm just here to help!

All that "hate" is according to who? Gays have more rights than anyone in the US FYI and no, I'm not being sarcastic, it's fact. Gays claim the whole homophobia thing when the fact is try to dissagree with the lifestyle, tell then you support the Biblical act of marriage as it was taken directly out of the Bible in the first place and then see how fast your called a homophobe. I'm sorry, I am so sick of the special treatment and reading headlines of yet another person who feels the world need to know that they like the same sex...Get a life people and keep your private life to yourself. IS society that ignorant to notice that the rest of us who are strait that our kids, God forbid they commit suicide are not as important as that gey teen who did? That teen girl who gets bullied everyday for being overweight, well guess what, thats not important unless she is a lesbian then it's front page news and gets a slot on Rachel Maddows show.... Also understand this, the rest of the world is not the USa who has turned into a panzy country IMO. Only in America can someone be offended as as long as it's something to do with anti religious causes, your front page news and the courts want your case. Homophobia is nothing more that the gay communities racist card, this is why they tried to put themselves in the same catagory as the civil rights movement and equate thesmselves with minorities who fought racism. Gays beleive that because they make up fictitious storieds of Christians hunting them down and telling them they will burn in hell that they are to be treated the same as those murdered for their skin color. Have gays been murdered for being gay? Yup, but many, many many more Christians have been tortured, had genocide commited upon hundreds of thousands of them at a time yet they are viewed as the direct enemy of the gay............. I have yet to find or meet a single Christian who is "afraid" of gays IE: Homophobe, or meet any Christians who hates anyone because of the choice they make about sexual preferance. It's nothing more than the liberal lie mixed in the gay agenda. Accept/agree with us or face being marked as a homophobe...LOL, yeah, talk about tolerance............................

Thank-You a hundred times over,when Chinese take over the USA you "Gay's" will in interment camps ,like Nazi did,and Stalinist did too,Obama sold the USA to the China,they all ready own more 50% of US.

what are you talking about!?!?! lol

You said it all. The Truth !

I agree with you....wholeheartedly. The Bible, about Christians....Most gays think Christians are trying to condemn them...they are not (there are some ignorant Christians, of course), but most Christians are skipping a step in the process. As a Gay person, you have the right to choose or accept your birth of being gay and living that way. the Bible says if you do, you will go to hell. The Christian isn't condemning you, God is. Hopeffully before the Gay person leaves earth, they will recognize that. The Christian is only trying to tell the gay person the consequences of their decision. Now, before you decide I'm still just a homophobe, rememeber the Child molestors who are "just showing love" to little boys and girls feel they are just doing what they feel. They were either born that way or "came to that conclusion" as they developed into adulthood or teenaged life. I'm sure (I hope) the gay and lesbian community won't support that person's right to his/her feelings, belief of being born that way or "just know based on deep down feelings" that he/or she should be having sex with little children and doing so is perfectly ok. God said it's wrong. You are not listening to him, you probably aren't going to listen to me, but because I am a Christian He demands that I tell you what He said. Once I've done that, I'm done except to let you know that if you change your mind, I will be there as a believer to show you love....I will also be there in the interim to show you love, but that love will never be an acceptance or a blessing of your actions.

god doesn't exist though

"As a Gay person, you have the right to choose or accept your birth of being gay and living that way."

Uhhm, there is no choice being offered in that sentence. "Choose OR accept"?

Comparing an act between two consenting adults and one that is an adult raping a child seems a little far fetched don't you think?
So, you believe you're interpretation of the bible and then you apply this to everyone. Typical Christian. Though at least you offer love to those you have judged as bound for hell. The "consequences" are really nothing short of your personal opinion/interpretation and what you have been told. Expand your mind, open your heart, you will see what truth is. Don't assume what you have been told all your life. God has unconditional love available for us (ALL of us... really!). There is no hell, only the one we create for ourselves here on earth.

Except the Judeo/Christian religion is a work of fiction as is the bible. I can quote things out of "The Wizard of Oz" also but I don't need to pass laws to try and force it as being true.

Straights shove their perversion in socities face all the time, it's just so common place y'all take it for granted. Why don't you straight folks keep your sexuality in the privacy of your own home AND your religion also?

Who cares if a person is straight or christian? I don't need laws being passed to take away my Evolutionary Right to self expression and pursuit of happiness! And I certainly don't need to see the straight crap on tv, in front of children, in newspapers, online, etc. It is really disgusting to see!

It's a fact that over 90% of child molestation comes from straight white christian males as does over 95% of murders and rapes. Normal? If you want to call the straight christian perversion "normal" than you really need a reality check!

check your sources. Gays do not have more rights than straight people, they have less

21stcentury21 is the prime reason straight people get so angry at gay people. There are a lot of valid points people are saying here and all you can do is push your hate speech at all the straight comments. Quit being so Heterophobic~

Straights shove their perversion in socities face all the time, it's just so common place y'all take it for granted. Why don't you straight folks keep your sexuality in the privacy of your own home AND your religion also?

Who cares if a person is straight or christian? I don't need laws being passed to take away my Evolutionary Right to self expression and pursuit of happiness! And I certainly don't need to see the straight crap on tv, in front of children, in newspapers, online, etc. It is really disgusting to see!

It's a fact that over 90% of child molestation comes from straight white christian males as does over 95% of murders and rapes. Normal? If you want to call the straight christian perversion "normal" than you really need a reality check!

and they should

Have you read the Bible? To which "biblical act of marriage" are you referring to? King Solomons? Adam and Eve? Are you referring to the endless examples of polygomy? Please. I doubt 95% of Christians in America would be willing to live by the BIble; they just wan to use it as a weapon against others in a desperate attempt to make themselves feel better for sinning so much. You should be worried about the lies you are writing up above and a little less about gay athletes.

And gays will keep their private lives to themselves as soon as straight people do (and that will NEVER happen). And perhaps you should ask yourself, who killed these Christians. Be careful, you may not like the answer! (HINT: it was other Christians!).

Is girlfriend as hot as she is? Good luck in London!

And on the US Team who isn't is more the story

I do not have a problem with homosexual, or almost any person exercising their rights and pursuits. There will always be differing viewpoints though. I would have to accept sharing shower and locker room areas with a gay. And so, from this viewpoint, is it necessary to have separate areas for men and women in general? We are all adults.

Log this under "Who Cares" please. What a wasted piece of news. ab get a life. She is who she is in her lifestyle. Good luck M R I hope you do good with everything you do in life.

Gee, what a big surprise.....a female athlete who's gay......zzzzzzzz. Now let's get on with the business at hand, whipping up on the rest of the world!

Coming out IS a big deal and because we live in a heteronormative culture that assumes everyone is heterosexual, gay and lesbian people have to come out. It's important to have more "out" athletes to act as role models and address homophobia is sports. Way to go, Megan!

Your right athlete should be roll models and that is why she should be kicked off the team.

A roll model? You mean she shows other people how to roll? Is that an Olympic Sport now?

Bullsh-t!! Pure bullsh-t!! No one minds that you're gay. Big Deal!! We DON'T need to know!! And don't tell me what I need to hear and what I don't!! That's MY CALL!!! Go away!!!!

by go away do you mean to hell? lol at you

.It's not like she called a press conference or anything. She just mentioned it in an interview and the media blew it up and then you supported that by not only clicking on the article, but then commenting on it! Really, if it doesn't interest you... don't click on it and there's no problem. You are truly going out of your way to annoy yourself. Why bother!

Bingo - good call jayleebee.

Actually it isn't your call. It is the website / news organizations call.

Straights shove their perversion in socities face all the time, it's just so common place y'all take it for granted. Why don't you straight folks keep your sexuality in the privacy of your own home AND your religion also?

Who cares if a person is straight or christian? I don't need laws being passed to take away my Evolutionary Right to self expression and pursuit of happiness! And I certainly don't need to see the straight crap on tv, in front of children, in newspapers, online, etc. It is really disgusting to see!

It's a fact that over 90% of child molestation comes from straight white christian males as does over 95% of murders and rapes. Normal? If you want to call the straight christian perversion "normal" than you really need a reality check!

Believe me, nobody in their right mind thinks everyone is heterosexual... I've been hit on so many times by gays, it's ridiculous... and annoying. If you're so proud of being gay, it would be helpful to us heteros if you would wear badges or have a tattooo specifying your sexual preference, so that we will know what to expect when interacting with you. Don't get me wrong... I have no problem with gays or interacting with you... but I do have a problem with you hitting on me when I have absolutely no interested.

You poor thing. Now you know how it feels to be a woman. We get hit on all the time by obnoxious, sex-crazed men nobody in there right mind would be interested in. Identifying this as a gay issue is gay issue is pretty naive. It's much more prevalent in the heterosexual community. Just ask any decent looking woman she will top your stories every time.

I'm gay, I get hit on by men all the time, then when I tell them I am gay, they make comments about how much better that makes it...SOO even saying I am gay assumes I am just a heterosexual willing to share my experiences with women. Thanks for accepting..NOT!

There are hundreds of Olympians who are HETEROSEXUALS. Do they get stories written about them simply because they are straight?

do you really not understand?

No, they don't understand. Sigh. They think the scantily clad women in beer commercials are there by pure coincidence. And the men in advertisements just HAPPEN to be good looking every time. They have no clue how much heterosexuality is used everyday to influence them. Oh well.

Straights shove their perversion in socities face all the time, it's just so common place y'all take it for granted. Why don't you straight folks keep your sexuality in the privacy of your own home AND your religion also?

Who cares if a person is straight or christian? I don't need laws being passed to take away my Evolutionary Right to self expression and pursuit of happiness! And I certainly don't need to see the straight crap on tv, in front of children, in newspapers, online, etc. It is really disgusting to see!

Stories are written about their spouses and children. That's heterosexual behavior.