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http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/373995/Jamie Kuntz, 18, of Dickinson, was seen kissing his boyfriend in the press box by teammates on the sidelines, according to a story published on stranger.com.
It is unknown what team violation Kuntz broke, but the report by Dan Savage says the former Wildcats student-athlete was reprimanded by coaches following a Sept. 1 road game in Pueblo, Colo.
After the game, NDSCS head coach Chuck Parsons pulled Kuntz off the team bus and confronted him, the report says. At that point, Kuntz denied kissing anyone and denied being gay.
The story goes on to explain that Kuntz later admitted to being gay and kissing his boyfriend, and he was then kicked off the team for being a distraction.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)honestly -- the hinterlands need to get over it.
CanisCrocinus
(109 posts)Glad to hear that intolerance is not a problem on the coasts.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)I come from Peoria - so be very careful.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I was the first generation to be born out of several in North Dakota.
Several years ago, the sister, of the wife of one of my cousins, died in a house fire...the house was an OLD farmhouse and I know
that there was concern about the wiring...she also smoked heavily (wiring fire or cigarette? Never found out). That night
was her last in the house as she was moving.
We do find out after she died that she was lesbian.
And then, one of the relatives happens to toss into a conversation with us,
"Folks here don't take too kindly, to those types."
I think stuff like that speaks volumes.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)That subtle - under the cover - Hate that exists.
Unspoken - but there none the less.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Series-ly, someone needs to look in the mirror about intolerance, since you basically slammed the coasts with your repsonse, if that isn't a broad brush, I don't know what is.
merrily
(45,251 posts)IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Nolimit
(142 posts)Kuntz should not be kicked off any team because of his sexual orientation. However, I find it pretty sketchy that his boyfriend is 65 years old.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)What science is that?
radicalliberal
(907 posts)... a guy in a bar (say, put one of his eyes out with a broken beer bottle), then it wouldn't be a big deal; and he'd still be on the team. Just as long as he was a valuable player.