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Come on France, pull your shiz together.   You're more cultured than this!!!!!

First this:  telling us we are ignorant for building our towers too high:

via copyranter

AND NOW:

Yoann Lemaire left his soccer team for a while because his teammates made homophobic comments in front of TV cameras.

Time has passed and Lemaire asked the team, Chooz,  if he could come back and play.

The team has said, NO!

The rejection was signed by the club president, Frédéric Pretty. The rejection specifically refers to Lemaire’s sexuality and the “trouble” it can cause as reason for rejection. From a rough translation:

The invoked reasons are to protect the two parties. It is important to us, considering the passion since the events of May 2009 and the media coverage that resulted, to avoid again incidents.

Lemaire said in an interview that it was only two players (out of 60) on the team who don’t like that he’s gay. Instead of removing the hateful players, they instead decided to remove the gay player. Lemaire may have been part of a small club, but he was one of the more well-known players on that club.

Part of the club’s reasoning for refusal is a slew of homophobic threats (including death threats) aimed at Lemaire by the former head of the club Chooz. Those threats were sent via Facebook.

via outsports