Mayor Daley: Yes to 'Gay Games,' Democrats, NO to GOP Convention
2/16/2006 10:12:00 AM
By Peter LaBarbera, Illinois Family Institute
IFI New Release
IFI Questions Mayor Daley's Priorities--Saying 'Yes' to 'Gay Games' and Democrats but 'No' to the 2008 Republican Convention
GLEN ELLYN--Illinois Family Institute Executive Director Peter LaBarbera said today that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley "has his priorities all mixed up," after learning that Daley will not even bid for the Republican National Convention, after excitedly courting the "Gay Games" and spending lavishly on the 1996 Democrat convention.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports today that Daley will not join the many other cities bidding for the 2008 Republican convention, so he can focus on launching a campaign for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
In 1996, Daley went all out to welcome the Democratic National Convention, spending millions of taxpayer dollars on 'streetscaping,' increased police presence, special bridge decorations, new street signs, and other amenities.
"To not even bid on the Republican convention after having a Howard Dean moment celebrating Chicago's landing the 2006 'Gay Games' says a lot about the Mayor's partisan and confused priorities," LaBarbera said. "Perhaps if this were a convention of homosexual Republicans, he would be showing some interest."
The "Gay Games," coming to Chicago in July, are a competition drawing homosexual athletes from all over the world. The "Gay Games" have a history of being financial busts that cost their host city big money. The homosexual magazine The Advocate reported that "Gay Games" organizers are trying to end "a legacy of deficits that has trailed the Gay Games as the event has grown. Vancouver lost $84,000 in 1990, New York lost $700,000 in 1994 (reduced by half postbankruptcy), Amsterdam lost $1.8 million in 1998, and Sydney lost $1.1 million in 2002, with at least the last three ending in bankruptcy."
The Chicago "Gay Games" face an additional challenge of competing with an alternate homosexual athletic contest in Montreal, also in July, called the "Out Games." The two homosexual sporting events are recruiting from the same pool of athletes, and the Out Games just landed world renown lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova to open their competition.
Mayor Daley spent millions of Chicago taxpayer dollars to create and improve what one homosexual journalist called "America's First Official Gay Neighborhood," the "Boys Town" section of Lakeview that is marked by eleven pairs of tax-funded, 23-foot-high pillars to celebrate the city's homosexual citizens. The pillars are adorned with the rainbow colors adopted as a symbol by homosexual activists (while others resent the appropriation of the rainbow to mark behavior long considered immoral).
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Helpful Links
"IFI E-Alert: 'Gay Games' Seeks $450,000 in Taxpayer $$$; Past 'Games' Were Financial Disasters" (IFI, Aug. 22, 2005)
Summary of Los Angeles Times editorial urging the city to close down gay bathhouses
"Gay Games'" "Parties & Events" listings containing links for two bathhouses as well as sadistic sex ("leather") bars in Chicago (note Walgreens, Chicago Sun-Times and Orbitz among the non-homosexual companies sponsoring the "Gay Games")
Encyclopedia of Chicago entry on Boys Town, America's "first official gay neighborhood."
"IFI Reader Answers Walgreens CEO on "Gay Games" (IFI article, Nov. 11, 2005)
"Kraft's Dysfunctional Diversity: "Gay Games" Promotes Sadistic "Mr. Leather" Event in Chicago" (IFI article, June 1, 2005; Kraft gave $25,000 to sponsor the "Gay Games")
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