Torii Hunter being criticized for his comment on gay athletes

The Los Angeles Times ^ | 12/31/12 | Houston Mitchell

[JohnSmith13]

Former Angels outfielder Torii Hunter is receiving some criticism for his comments in a story by The Times' Kevin Baxter about homosexuals in sports.

In the story, Hunter said he would find it difficult to be supportive of a teammate with a different sexual orientation than his own:

[Morris70]

Just use the word “magot” .
Works for Charlie .

[Fireone]

Former Minnesota Twins outfielder Torii Hunter is entitled to his opinion, without being skewered by the liberal, misfit media.

[gorush]

I’m not homophobic...but I am homonauseous.

[Finny]

The comments are an interesting read.

[newfreep]

God, in His perfect wisdom states clearly homosexual choices is an abomination.

I trust God is right and reject the “wisdom” of imperfect humans

[Louis Foxwell]

Agreed. Girly noys have no place on a ball field.
Someone please post the pic of O tossing a pitch.

[Louis Foxwell]

Agreed. Girly boys have no place on a ball field.
Someone please post the pic of O tossing a pitch.

[cripplecreek]

All that matters to me is how he does in the outfield at Comerica park.

[GeronL]

They do not want tolerance, they want total acceptance and celebration from their opponents.

[Ransomed]

Yup. The gays are running into logic and black folks who are tearing them up for comparing the gay thing with race in MLB and civil rights.

The whole thing about being kind of maybe uncomfortable showering and suiting up with a peer who is sexually attracted to your gender completely escapes them. If a woman ever makes it to MLB (knuckleball reliever?) I hope she doesn’t mind all the swinging bats in the locker room, because according to these wackos she shouldn’t care about it too much. Lets not even consider men playing in female sports, that wouldn’t be fair.

Freegards

[Random Access]

It’s tough to concentrate on the game when your team mate gets aroused every time he sees a bat.

[Finny]

The little debate between the guy who equates (correctly, IMO) Gay "rights" with "special rights," and the guy who insists gay "rights" are "equal rights" was good to see. There are at least two examples of how it is absolutely "special" rights, but more accurately, about denying God-given rights to peacefully, independently discriminate against social behaviors.

1. Gay "rights" means forcing adoption agencies to cooperate with "married" male couples seeking to play June and Ward Cleaver. Adoption agencies are deprived their God-given right to refuse to place with homosexual "parents," the babies entrusted to their care. It is their natural right of refusal -- gay "rights" is a special right to punish adoption agencies for excercising that right.

2. Gay "rights" means forcing companies such as eharmony, the Christian-based matchmaking website, to accommodate homosexual "singles" in their business. It means forcing wedding businesses to accommodate same-sex "weddings" instead of politely declining and saying, "Go find another business to hire." It accrues "special rights" to self-declared homosexuals, special rights achieved by denying a God-given right of refusal to individual Americans who want zero to do with the "gay" social game.