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Holyfield sparks anger with 'homophobic' comments on Celebrity Big Brother
Daily Mail ^ | 01/05/2014 | Martin Domin

Posted on 01/06/2014 6:26:40 AM PST by thetallguy24

Evander Holyfield sparked a Twitter storm on Sunday night when he classed homosexuality as a disability and claimed it could be 'fixed'.

The former four-time heavyweight champion of the world made the comments during his stay in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

He was later warned for his outburst, to which he replied he was merely stating his opinion.

Holyfield was being quizzed by The Apprentice runner-up Luisa Zissman about whether any boxers had come out as gay.

'While Big Brother understands these are the views you hold, they aren’t the views that are held by a large section of society and expressing these views will be extremely offensive to many people. Do you understand why?'

Holyfield replied: 'Yeah I understand why, I forgot about the thing. I was just telling her my opinion, but it’s not like I was gonna mention it to anybody else, that was just our conversation.'

He was then warned and later put up for eviction alongside Zissman after the pair failed to complete a series of challenges.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
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To: Fuzz

Ooooops!

Summary still applies, minus the “prison culture” (but maybe not the “down-lo” reference)?


21 posted on 01/06/2014 6:57:59 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: thetallguy24
Sooner or later, human behavior will get another reality check to balance our impulse control and notions of what is right, wrong and acceptable.

Sexually transmitted terminal diseases have been the usual checks on behavior, and while we have discovered a variety of ways to counter them, their resistance to our countermeasures also increases with time and our promiscuity.

At some point in this evolution, one or more of those diseases or something new will again become terrifyingly unstoppable, thus stopping the behavior or stopping the individual.

Then, perhaps, we will rediscover the ancient wisdom (consequences) that judges and governs our behavior.

22 posted on 01/06/2014 6:58:28 AM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: thetallguy24

She asked the question so she could feign outrage. Oldest trick in the Marxist book.

Pray America is Waking


23 posted on 01/06/2014 7:03:02 AM PST by bray ("The Republic of Texas 2022" is coming in Feb)
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To: Jim Noble

I think we need a NATIONAL REFERENDUM VOTE on whether buggery is accepted by the majority of Americans or not. They know it is a lie so they never will allow for it.


24 posted on 01/06/2014 7:04:14 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

He’s a born again Christian.


25 posted on 01/06/2014 7:25:12 AM PST by Fuzz
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To: thetallguy24

“He was later warned for his outburst, to which he replied he was merely stating his opinion. “

Such delusion, this is no longer allowed these days.


26 posted on 01/06/2014 7:34:41 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: thetallguy24

Evander Holyfield sparked a Twitter storm on Sunday night when he classed homosexuality as a disability and claimed it could be ‘fixed’.

It is and it can be. Until just a decade or so ago homosexuality was classed as a mental health issue and was a crime.
God is amazing and can fix all problems when a human being truly turns them over to Him.
So Holyfield was right on........


27 posted on 01/06/2014 7:36:16 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: Fuzz

Ummm... yeah.
I know more than one “BAX” that continue in the down-lo culture. One that has propositioned me within the last 5 years.

It is a matter of personal power; control.


28 posted on 01/06/2014 7:38:42 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: thetallguy24

C’mon. Black people — an oppressed minority — never take issue with homosexuality!


29 posted on 01/06/2014 7:47:21 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: thetallguy24

Get asked a question, give your opinion, get called in by the boss for wrong-thinking. Sounds like Orwell’s Big Brother, oh wait.


30 posted on 01/06/2014 7:47:37 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: thetallguy24

” they aren’t the views that are held by a large section of society”

globally, that’s not even close to true


31 posted on 01/06/2014 8:10:49 AM PST by Viennacon
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To: thetallguy24

Zussman sounds like an idiot. She cannot even argue coherently how its any different from being handicapped. She just says ‘its how you are’.


32 posted on 01/06/2014 8:15:36 AM PST by Viennacon
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To: Ken H

Do Homosexuals “die -nasty”?


33 posted on 01/06/2014 8:22:16 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: thetallguy24

“the views you hold, they aren’t the views that are held by a large section of society”

True. There is a large section of society that does not share his views.

However, there is a much larger “section” (the majority) that do share his views.

They say he is supposed to keep his views to himself so as to not offend the cross-section that disagrees. Yet they think it is fine and dandy to force feed America the sodomite filth.


34 posted on 01/06/2014 8:34:49 AM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Reclaim the language.

I agree… let’s get rid of the words ‘heterosexuality/heterosexuals’ and ‘homosexuality/homosexuals’, ‘gays’[ and ‘lesbians’. These words assume a condition that don’t exist. There is only ‘sexuality’ as one of the primary characteristic of humankind and for that matter, all species. No doubt those ‘who claim they are homosexual’ would like to argue otherwise (that ‘same sex attraction’ exists elsewhere in nature) but not until one has a scientific basis for being able to identify lesbian chickens on the farm and gay fish in the ocean for example, then we can talk (the words ‘lesbian’ and ‘gay’ being used here to make a point since as pointed out, these don’t exist as a state of being). There is just sexuality and beyond that there are just the ways that the sexuality component of humans manifests itself........ perverted sexuality if manifested in the way that those who call themselves homosexuals practice it… and normal sexuality if manifested in the way that God intended it to be practiced.

35 posted on 01/06/2014 8:40:47 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Oral sex is sodomy as well.


36 posted on 01/06/2014 9:34:26 AM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (What would Sgt. Saunders do?)
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To: thetallguy24

I’m surprised he is even coherent.

I can only imagine what his brain must look like due to the multiple blows he has taken to his head.


37 posted on 01/06/2014 9:47:51 AM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (What would Sgt. Saunders do?)
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To: thetallguy24

I don’t think the gay mafia will be using the redneck slur this time.


38 posted on 01/06/2014 10:00:53 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: thetallguy24

I always did like him for some reason. Even more now!


39 posted on 01/06/2014 10:07:45 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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