Bauer group funded by Sonics co-owners takes down website
7:28 PM
The right wing anti-marriage-equality group, Americans United to Preserve Marriage, has taken down its website. This morning, the site included at least six press releases and a long biography of its founder Gary Bauer. Now it has only the graphic header on its home page with the statement, "under construction."
This is the group that was bankrolled by Seattle Sonics/Storm co-owners Aubrey McClendan and Tom Ward.
Perhaps this isn't the kind of publicity Bauer or Ward and McClendon wanted, eh? Aside from the obvious problems for NBA/WNBA owners like Ward and McClendon, it doesn't do Bauer much good to have it revealed that just two guys paid for one one of his operations.
Sample headlines:
Seattlest: Howard Schultz Sold the Sonics to Bigots
Supersonicsoul: Sonics New Owners: Jerks and Bigots
Down with Pants!: Go Sonics! and Take The Bigots With You
Dustbury: Backlash, or forelash?
Not everyone is hoping they'll make a quick exit back to Oklahoma. Lachlan at My So Called Blog says she "would like to flip the virtual bird to the owners and tell them to do their hate-mongering in Oklahoma," but pulls back with a repeat of this prior post about why the Storm are so important to her and many other lesbians in town:
This is the group that was bankrolled by Seattle Sonics/Storm co-owners Aubrey McClendan and Tom Ward.
Perhaps this isn't the kind of publicity Bauer or Ward and McClendon wanted, eh? Aside from the obvious problems for NBA/WNBA owners like Ward and McClendon, it doesn't do Bauer much good to have it revealed that just two guys paid for one one of his operations.
Sample headlines:
Seattlest: Howard Schultz Sold the Sonics to Bigots
Supersonicsoul: Sonics New Owners: Jerks and Bigots
Down with Pants!: Go Sonics! and Take The Bigots With You
Dustbury: Backlash, or forelash?
Not everyone is hoping they'll make a quick exit back to Oklahoma. Lachlan at My So Called Blog says she "would like to flip the virtual bird to the owners and tell them to do their hate-mongering in Oklahoma," but pulls back with a repeat of this prior post about why the Storm are so important to her and many other lesbians in town:
Since the rumors and eventual sale of the Sonics and Storm began, I've had one thought about what it would mean to lose the Storm in particular:Hmm. Think they might be willing to sell the Storm and leave it here even if they take the Sonics to OKC?
Seattle's lesbian community would be devastated. Bayou and I have attended several games in the past, and two within the last month. Both times, I looked around, and thought: "Wow, I can't believe how many lesbians are here."
Everywhere, wall-to-wall dykes, couples, femmes, singles, sports dykes, families with one or more kidlets, goth riot grrrls. It was an absolutely diverse microcosm of gay women and their loved ones.
The blessing of the Storm games is the lack of 'meat-market' attitude. It's a great meeting place for friends and groups of friends. If the Storm leaves town, it will leave a big, gaping hole in the lesbian community here.
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