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NBA Player 'Comes Out' -- but Tolerance Cuts Both Ways
Townhall.com ^ | May 2, 2013 | Larry Elder

Posted on 05/02/2013 4:25:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/02/2013 4:25:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I think we can go all the way back to the 1950s and find gay players in the NBA. Same for the NFL, and especially for major league baseball.


2 posted on 05/02/2013 4:27:08 AM PDT by pepsionice
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With a general population that surveys put at about 4 percent homosexual

Where did that come from? . . . 4% . . . it's barely 1.5% if that. One of our local news-twits said it was 10% . . .

It's like that 90% figure of people against gun ownership . . . comes right out of their a$$. But, if you repeat it enough . . . some of it sticks.

3 posted on 05/02/2013 4:28:50 AM PDT by laweeks
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“I think we can go all the way back to the 1950s and find gay players in the NBA. Same for the NFL, and especially for major league baseball.”

In the 1950’s they were not “gay.” They were homosexuals. The difference is: a homosexual is attracted to members of the same sex. Gay is a lifestyle choice and indicates a communist political agenda. Hence the desire of gays to coopt homosexuals into gayness by eliminating the word as “offensive.”

You can be a conservative homosexual. You can’t be a conservative gay. Gay and conservative or polar opposites. Conservative and homosexual are not necessarily so.


4 posted on 05/02/2013 4:30:42 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Kaslin

who gives a flip, he is a narcissistic attention seeker


5 posted on 05/02/2013 4:33:17 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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“You can be a conservative homosexual. “

Yup. And that is one of the reasons yesterday I finally decided conservatism is no longer for me. I’ll just be an indy henceforth following the principles of Reagan.

Enjoy the movement you helped destroy.


6 posted on 05/02/2013 4:39:50 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Excellent point


7 posted on 05/02/2013 4:40:07 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Norm Lenhart; Gen.Blather

Norm, if you want to make a point, at least have the guts to take on a poster’s entire comment, not pull a little tid bit out of context. That’s cowardly. And you did take Blather’s comment out of context by leaving off the last half of it.


8 posted on 05/02/2013 4:50:05 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: yldstrk

Actually, he’s an aging, barely-competent basketball player, scoring 1.1 points per game, trying to keep the paycheck going for another season or two.


9 posted on 05/02/2013 4:50:51 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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No need to know or hear about a person’s sex life...keep it in the closet. This is PRIVATE and not NEWS.


10 posted on 05/02/2013 4:53:08 AM PDT by FES0844
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Just one more reason I dislike basketball. Overpaid primadonna’s and now add in a dike to boot.
11 posted on 05/02/2013 4:55:30 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for HONEST government)
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12 posted on 05/02/2013 4:56:40 AM PDT by csmusaret (America is more divided today , not because of the problems we face but because of Obama's solutions)
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“No need to know or hear about a person’s sex life...keep it in the closet. This is PRIVATE and not NEWS.”

This is exactly my opinion on this kind of news story—or of anyone who feels like they have to broadcast information on their sexual activities or preferences. Too much information!!!


13 posted on 05/02/2013 5:02:49 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Words mean things. Have the guts to admit it.

If you want to defend his clear and in context statement, then be my guest. It’s the reason that the movement flounders. People ignoring basic principles as you have done in post after post.

When you show me where in any conservative text, any speech or essay that a father or historical icon of conservative thought has accepted homosexuality as conservative, show me. Until then, try not to be part of the problem.


14 posted on 05/02/2013 5:03:11 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: csmusaret

Excellent!


15 posted on 05/02/2013 5:04:27 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: Kaslin

I am sick and tired of this gay shyte and it is sickening too. It was better when they were in the closet doing what they do far way from everyone else


16 posted on 05/02/2013 5:10:13 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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To: MNGal

Fresh from Pookies Toons


17 posted on 05/02/2013 5:16:10 AM PDT by csmusaret (America is more divided today , not because of the problems we face but because of Obama's solutions)
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To: Kaslin
When the league's top draft pick, Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner, recently "came out," the media and fans said "ho-hum."

Lesbians generally get a break. after all, I'm sure I'm not the only lesbian-trapped-in-a-man's-body here on FR!

18 posted on 05/02/2013 5:20:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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If Jackie Robinson had waited until he was a 36 yr old free agent to tell the world he was Black, then Jason would be “just like him”.....


19 posted on 05/02/2013 5:20:47 AM PDT by G Larry (Darkness Hates the Light)
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Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama praised Collins for his courage.

Yes, the poofter isth thoo brave!

20 posted on 05/02/2013 5:21:08 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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