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First openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport comes out ...[NBA]
The Hour ^ | 4/29/13

Posted on 04/29/2013 9:54:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The first openly gay athlete in American sports has come out in a column to be printed in Sports Illustrated. You can read his column in Sports Illustrated here. A 12 year NBA veteran center, Jason Collins wrote a column for Sports Illustrate that simply starts: "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay."

(Excerpt) Read more at m.thehour.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nba; oldnews; sodomy
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Sodomy....celebrated in the media.
1 posted on 04/29/2013 9:54:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Free Agent” must mean he doesn’t have a job now.


2 posted on 04/29/2013 9:55:16 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Basketball is a pretty gay sport anyway no surprise here.


3 posted on 04/29/2013 9:55:30 AM PDT by edcoil (If the man was accused of leadership, there would not be enough evidence to convict him.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Trying to sell more magazines to a new audience?


4 posted on 04/29/2013 9:55:57 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: SoFloFreeper

Inspired by that other well known hoops star, Barack Obama.


5 posted on 04/29/2013 9:56:23 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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Collins was a serviceable journeyman NBA player who is near/at the end of his career. Perhaps this will help him get a media gig when he retires.


6 posted on 04/29/2013 9:56:25 AM PDT by Leto
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To: SoFloFreeper

so poking and pushing a mans feces is turning them on and then they say they’re proud and have been living in a lie by saying they were normal


7 posted on 04/29/2013 9:57:24 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Just shut up and play ball.


8 posted on 04/29/2013 9:57:30 AM PDT by grobdriver
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To: SoFloFreeper

An NBA athlete confesses to immorality? Color me not shocked. Isn’t this the same bunch that celebrated Wilt Chamberlain having sex with hundreds of women, and who can forget Kobe Bryant becoming a media darling after he raped a woman?


9 posted on 04/29/2013 9:57:45 AM PDT by Burkean (.)
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To: Leto

By design.


10 posted on 04/29/2013 9:58:02 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: SoFloFreeper

“I’ve never sought the spotlight.”

Except for writing this SI cover story.


11 posted on 04/29/2013 9:58:14 AM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sodum-U

Sodum-ME

Sodium, is what Lott’s wife BE


12 posted on 04/29/2013 9:58:30 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: SoFloFreeper

and jason, i really don’t care or want to hear about your private life, at all. and almost nobody else does either. i don’t ask my mailman who he’s dojng it with, i don’t alk to the grocery clerk about her sex life, i don’t pry i to my older single neighbor’s sexual preferences.

i don’t care, jason. nobody cares. shut the hell up like everyone else and just be grateful people are idiotic enough to pay you an outrageous amount of money for a “skill” that is useful nowhere else in the job world.


13 posted on 04/29/2013 9:59:01 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wow. First Magic Johnson, and now Jason Collins. Who is next???


14 posted on 04/29/2013 9:59:01 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’ll bet his favorite part of the game is going to the showers after the game ends.


15 posted on 04/29/2013 9:59:53 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: manc

Resse's Feces....

16 posted on 04/29/2013 10:00:36 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: SoFloFreeper

Bless his heart.


17 posted on 04/29/2013 10:00:48 AM PDT by yawningotter
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Yeah, he’s through. 0.9 PPG last year.


18 posted on 04/29/2013 10:00:57 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m sure all of the guys he showers with on the team will just be oh so trilled at this news.

Why don’t these loons show some respect for others and keep their sexual kinks to themselves?


19 posted on 04/29/2013 10:01:57 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m a heterosexual..where’s my SI cover??

Oh, & thanks for letting us know you’re black too..just play ball & stfu!


20 posted on 04/29/2013 10:02:03 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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