I have picked up just enough on ESPN to get really annoyed with this John Amaechi/Tim Hardaway controversy.
First off, Amaechi "comes out of the closet" to sell his book. And gets the "warm and cuddlies" from the media. Then the media calls a bunch of his contemporary players to get comments, and most of them are smart enough to either be supportive or do the "I don't care" bit.
But they find Tim Hardaway, who is dumb enough to open his mouth and say what he thinks about gays. He is now the most castigated man in sports, who has his events canceled and is being shunned. He gave a radio interview and said:
First of all I wouldn't want them on my team. And second of all, if he was on my team, you know, I would really distance myself from him because, uh, I don't think that is right. I don't think he should be in the locker room while we are in the locker room, and it's just a whole lot of other things and I wouldn't even be a part of that.
But stuff like that is going on and there's a lot of other people I hear that are like that and still in the closet and don't want to come out of the closet, but you know I just leave that alone.
[snip]
You know what you are saying there is flatly homophobic? It's bigotry?
You know I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States. So yeah, I don't like it."
There's more there, believe me - "And I think the majority of players would ask for him to be traded or they would want to be traded. Or buy him out of his contract and just let him go." - but why go on when that last paragraph says it all: "I hate gay people"
I think ESPN's commentators spent most of last night telling the viewers that they thought Hardaway was right up there with Hitler. It seemed to be to make the point that, of course, they were ready to get down on their knees to any Gay athlete to prove that THEY have no prejudice against them.
I think the same thing is going on with Gays as is going on with the stem-cell issue. They are both being used by the Left to attack Christian evangelicals. It's really amusing to find myself defending Christians, but what's a Libertarian to do? :>) |
