Posted on 05/12/2011 7:55:04 AM PDT by ZGuy
Pressure from homosexual activist groups has compelled the head of the 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team to quit.
Two-time gymnastics gold medal winner Peter Vidmar has resigned upon receiving harsh criticism from homosexual and lesbian athletes and activists, who complained that he had donated $2,000 to promote California's Proposition 8, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
"I wish that Peter Vidmar had not resigned," laments Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH). "I wish that he'd stood up for his right to defend marriage, and I wish that he'd forced them to fire him if that's what they were going to do.
Maggie Gallagher, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, does not fault Vidmar for his decision. She told CitizenLink that the Olympic medalist's entire career and livelihood were at risk when the "gay rights movement decided to go after him." Vidmar, she points out, is currently one of the leading corporate motivational speakers in America.
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Isa 5:20 ¶ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
satan at work again and again.
“Gay rights” is simply an agenda to criminalize and marginalize Christians.
Tolerance on display again.
ping!
Because, after all, the most important thing in being a good gymnast is who you have sex with. < /s>
They will not stop.
Carthage must be destroyed.............
That’s how the faggots do it. They have help with the MSM and zero in on single targets. The dude should have stood up but now we are living in a pc society, he won’t do it. Too much of a hassle to challenge these sick, immoral fags.
Quitting...poor example to team.
Part of me thinks he should have stood up, but the objectivist in me agrees with his decision to just say "screw it, I don't need this aggravation".
“Your intolerance will not be tolerated!” commissar speak.
World class queers!
I wonder what the locker rooms are like...Scratch that, Idon’t want to know after all.
I don’t get it. Why is 3-5% of the population (even smaller for the “activist” segment only) allowed to intimidate anyone into resigning? He should have just said, “so what?” and stayed. Who got to him and what did they use?
Everyone should always keep in mind the origins of “PC”.
It was called by “Cultural Marxism” by its founders.
It’s annoying that people so often give in to these hate groups because their willingness to create havoc has no bounds.
I was reminded of when Laura Bush cancelled her poetry event she was planning for DC when liberal poets got ugly. She didn’t want to subject the poets she’d invited to the nastiness and just cancelled the whole thing.
And yet, Mr and Miz Obama ignored criticism of their event and their man, Common, and went right on with their event.
BTW, I was appalled to read that the woman who killed the policeman and who Common praised in his lyrics is still living in Cuba. Maybe the famous warrior who got Bin Laden could devote some effort to getting this woman.
He shouldn’t have resigned. He should have gone public. He would have gotten public support for defending his position. jmo
In case you missed it, look up the recent dust-up in New York City with the very gay, anti-Israel playwright Tony Kushner and some poor smoe who dared to challenge his right to a honorary degree from CUNY. The gay moonbats are out in droves trying to destroy this poor guy. And, sadly, they will do it.
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