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• CUBS WEIGH ON POSSIBILY OF A GAY TEAMMATE
• THE 8 CHIGO CUBS WOULD TURN A STRAIGHT GUY GAY
• CUBS FANS BOO NEWLY ACQUIRED, HOMOPHOBIC PLAYER AT PRI NIGHT GAMEDANIEL MURPHY HAS SPOKEN OUT AGAST THE GAY "LIFTYLE," CG HIS CHRISTIAN BELIEFS. {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY JEFF TAYLORAUGT 28, 2018/11:27 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3280PX;WIDTH:4928PX;}STACY REVERE/GETTY IMAGCHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 26: TUCKER BARNHART #16 OF THE CCNATI REDS IS FORCED OUT AT SEND BASE AS DANIEL MURPHY #3 OF THE CHIGO CUBS TURNS A DOUBLE PLAY DURG THE THIRD NG AT WRIGLEY FIELD ON AUGT 26, 2018 CHIGO, ILLOIS. ALL PLAYERS ACROSS MLB WILL WEAR NICKNAM ON THEIR BACKS AS WELL AS LORFUL, NON TRADNAL UNIFORMS FEATURG ALTERNATE SIGNS SPIRED BY YOUTH-LEAGUE UNIFORMS DURG PLAYERS WEEKEND. 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IN A B OF OPPORTUNE TIMG, THE CUBS TRAD FOR THE SEND BASEMAN LS THAN A WEEK BEFORE S ANNUAL OUT AT WRIGLEY EVENT.DAVID BANKS/GETTY IMAGCHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 25: DANIEL MURPHY #3 OF THE CHIGO CUBS HS A TWO-N HOME N AGAST THE CCNATI REDS DURG THE SEND NG ON AUGT 25, 2018 AT WRIGLEY FIELD CHIGO, ILLOIS. 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CUBS WEIGH ON POSSIBILY OF A GAY TEAMMATE

-- Michael Sam is preparg to bee the first openly gay athlete the NFL and Jason Colls beme the first openly gay active NBA player Sunday by takg the floor for the Brooklyn Nets, but Major League Baseball has yet to employ an openly gay player. ”Others believe the issue won’t be newsworthy as more openly gay players step forward.

”Many players assume they’ve played wh gay players, but none has e out public or private. Antigay Christian activist and fired realy show host David Benham ma news last week when he claimed that he nverted a man away om his "gay liftyle" wh love and tickets to a Chigo Cubs game. I found the e of Cubs tickets to be an odd vehicle for a gay-to-straight nversn.

THE 8 CHIGO CUBS WOULD TURN A STRAIGHT GUY GAY

Pl, watchg a baseball game is seeg a group of young, good-lookg, well-veloped athlet their prime sweat and move for three hours; hard to see how that would make a gay man sudnly sire women. David Benham and his tw brother Jason thk that all tak to nvert a gay guy is a trip to a ballgame.

The Chigo Cubs have signed Daniel Murphy, the baseball player who disagre wh the gay liftyle “100%, ” jt five days ahead of Out At Wrigley, the team’s annual celebratn of the LGBTQ muny. Murphy gave an terview 2015 when he was playg wh the New York Mets, which he ma clear that he believ gay people are morally rpt simply bee of whom they love. He specifilly went after Billy Bean, the gay former MLB player who now works the league’s ont office.

“I do disagree wh the fact that Billy is a homosexual.

CUBS FANS BOO NEWLY ACQUIRED, HOMOPHOBIC PLAYER AT PRI NIGHT GAMEDANIEL MURPHY HAS SPOKEN OUT AGAST THE GAY "LIFTYLE," CG HIS CHRISTIAN BELIEFS. {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY JEFF TAYLORAUGT 28, 2018/11:27 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3280PX;WIDTH:4928PX;}STACY REVERE/GETTY IMAGCHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 26: TUCKER BARNHART #16 OF THE CCNATI REDS IS FORCED OUT AT SEND BASE AS DANIEL MURPHY #3 OF THE CHIGO CUBS TURNS A DOUBLE PLAY DURG THE THIRD NG AT WRIGLEY FIELD ON AUGT 26, 2018 CHIGO, ILLOIS. ALL PLAYERS ACROSS MLB WILL WEAR NICKNAM ON THEIR BACKS AS WELL AS LORFUL, NON TRADNAL UNIFORMS FEATURG ALTERNATE SIGNS SPIRED BY YOUTH-LEAGUE UNIFORMS DURG PLAYERS WEEKEND. 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IN A B OF OPPORTUNE TIMG, THE CUBS TRAD FOR THE SEND BASEMAN LS THAN A WEEK BEFORE S ANNUAL OUT AT WRIGLEY EVENT.DAVID BANKS/GETTY IMAGCHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 25: DANIEL MURPHY #3 OF THE CHIGO CUBS HS A TWO-N HOME N AGAST THE CCNATI REDS DURG THE SEND NG ON AUGT 25, 2018 AT WRIGLEY FIELD CHIGO, ILLOIS. (PHOTO BY DAVID BANKS/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE CUBS FAHFUL LET HIM KNOW THAT WHILE THEY ARE STILL HERE FOR THEIR TEAM, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE -OWNED BY AN OPENLY GAY WOMAN, THEY ARE LS THAN THRILLED WH HIS PRENCE ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BILL GUBD, ANIZER OF OUT AT WRIGLEY, TOLD OUTSPORTS NEWS OF MURPHY JOG THE CUBS DROVE CREASED TERT THE GAME, CLUDG OM BOTH NATIV AND OUT-OF-TOWNERS WHO WANTED TO STAND SOLIDARY AGAST THE PLAYER'S ANTI-GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE REPORTED THAT THE GAME HAD "MORE ENERGY" THAN HAS HAD YEARS, AND THAT MANY THE STANDS BOOED MURPHY WHENEVER HE ME UP TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I WILL ALWAYS ROOT FOR THE CUBS, BUT I N’T FOR HIM,” HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DURG THE GAME, OWNERS TOM AND LRA RICKETTS WENT TO THE LGBTQ SECTN AND ANSWERED QUTNS REGARDG THE TEAM'S CISN TO ACQUIRE MURPHY, SPE HIS HISTORY OF MAKG HURTFUL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LRA RICKETTS HAS SAID SHE WAS NSULTED ABOUT SIGNG HIM, AND CLARIFIED SHE WAS SUPPORTIVE OF THE CISN, EVEN THOUGH SHE IS HERSELF A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ MUNY HE HAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Sce then Murphy hasn’t done anythg we know of to improve the plight of gay kids the ci where he liv, hasn’t publicly tried to build more bridg between his Christian belief system about gay people and the muny, hasn’t publicly done a darn thg to make sure that gay baseball players feel fortable the sport.

But when someone cis to publicly elevate the anti-gay environment of the sports world, ’s up to him to fix that. It’s been a rough few weeks for baseball, wh anti-gay tweets om players surfacg even as teams hosted Pri Nights.

Murphy has been vol the past about his strong opposn to the “gay liftyle”, and many Out At Wrigley atten greeted him wh boos every time he stood at the plate. Fans turned out to Pri night at Wrigley Field on Sunday to watch the Chigo Cubs take on the Ccnati Reds and, the se of many, to boo one of their own players over his homophobic Murphy has ma his opposn to the so-lled gay "liftyle" known, cg his Christian beliefs for his stance on the issue.