Just like Jesse Owens showed Hitler, I hope LGBT athletes

[Vinnie From Indy]

show Russia how morally bankrupt their ideas are!

Cheers to the LGBT athletes of America and the world!!!!!!!

[delrem]

1. OK. But I don't like how you equate LGBT issues with Russia vs. USA.

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. Your reply is akin to offering that the sun is hot!

I find your reply quite strange.

cheers!

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. I am a bit mystified as to how you got that impression.

Words actually mean things. Please re-read the OP.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. If they go, first, I hope they are safe, and two, I hope they show their PRIDE!

There are ways they can do it, and it would be a call to GLBT rights worldwide!

[Jenoch]

7. If LGBT athletes were to do what

Jesse Owens did in 1936, it would require a world class athlete to win the prominent track events and the long jump at the Olympics in Russia. I don't know if the U.S. athletes in those events are LGBT.

[msongs]

9. the comparison to 1936 is invalid - germany did not declare it would arrest any foreign olympians

based on those olympians' sexual orientation, or any other reason that I can read about. they were embarrassed by owens et al but did not threaten to or actually arrest anybody coming in to germany for the olympics.

[DreamGypsy]

8. Don't forget Tommie Smith and John Carlos ...

On the morning of 16 October 1968,[2] U.S.A. athlete Tommie Smith won the 200 metre race with a world-record time of 19.83 seconds. Australia's Peter Norman finished second with a time of 20.06 seconds, and the U.S.A's John Carlos won third place with a time of 20.10 seconds.

Smith later said, "If I win, I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight."

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Cheers to the LGBT athletes of America and the world!!!!!!!