The day after Seal Team 6 aced his a$$ we were pretty much in favor of OBL being knocked off. What we were against was doing something barbaric with his body. There were some dissenting opinions about the burial at sea but few people stooped to name calling and such. Well, except for a certain misspelled arm muscle but that’s his M O regardless of topic.

No one’s telling you to shut up. We just disagree with you. You seem to feel free to post here and accept that as your right. Well its our right to post here, too, and disagreeing with you is not only a duty it is in fact an unmitigated pleasure. I won’t call you a Neanderthal, for that would besmirch the good name of our long extinct hominid cousins, but I shall call you a narrow minded fool with likely unresolved sexual issues. And you can neither spell or manage semi-correct grammar.

Umm…yes, wishing to deny rights to people based an an arbitrary bit of nonsense is the exact definition of a bigot.

Thirdly, supporters of gay rights also supported Bin Laden? That’s odd. I’m no terrorist expect, but I’m pretty certain that dude was not down with the gays.

(1) Sports naturally involves heightened body-consciousness, which can aggravate sexual issues.
(2) Sports encourages a culture of machismo, which in turn encourages homophobia.
(3) Sports fans tend toward conservatism; and conservatism tends toward homophobia.

I’m most struck by (3). That’s obviously not to say that all sports fans are homophobic conservatives. But I would guess that sports fans are collectively more right-leaning than, say, book enthusiasts, which might explain why a prominent and openly gay author is so much less remarkable than an openly gay sports star.

“can’t hunt on Sunday” – I’m not a hunter, but according to FL’s web site, there are no day restrictions.

“religious observances are official state holidays in every state” – The only religious holiday in FL is Christmas. Easter is not an official holiday. All others are secular. In fact, there are more warfare based holidays (Ind. day, Mem. day, Vet. day) than religious ones.

One of my nephews is gay. We’ve talked about it a bit and he described years of trying not to be. It sounded just awful for him. It clearly was not a “choice” he made.

Since he’s caucasian and I’m not we had a common theme to fall back on; why would anyone deliberately go out and try to make their social life harder, reduce the rights they would ordinarily have, risk alienating many family members, harm their job prospects, be the subject of hateful remarks and live a life where you under a microscope for your actions?

It very much was as though he’d been born black 50 or 60 years ago; it wasn’t something the poor boy could help, would change if he could just to fit in with the rules of his society, improve his life in many ways and be accepted wherever he went. Hell, some of that’s even true to this day if you posses more melanin than the average but it seems to be worse if you happen to be gay.

A gay pro athlete would have to be a total fool to ‘choose’ a life like that. Since they don’t choose it, it shouldn’t be held against them.

That night that he told Nardi, his teammate didn’t recoil or walk out of the room. He didn’t ask for a new roommate.

He made a joke.

“I just said, ‘Don’t go putting a hit on me or sniffing my underwear or nothing,’” Nardi said. “I mean I was surprised because it was new to me. I had never really experienced anything like that, but it’s not like it mattered. I don’t know. I mean we were friends. Who cares?”

Evidence of the team’s unity and comfort lies in one simple nugget: Jay Wright never knew his starting power forward was gay until after Sheridan graduated.

No one ever went to him with a complaint or a worry. No one even bothered to tell him.

“After I found out, I was like, ‘Did you know?’ And all the guys, they were like, ‘Yeah, Coach, we knew,’” Wright said. “They just didn’t care and I guess I was just oblivious.”

Oblivious. That’s exactly the word Sheridan used as well. He laughed when trying to explain his basketball-centric coach, making an itty-bitty telescope with his hands to show just how tunneled Wright’s vision was.

I pulled the quote from another site, that quoted it from the original pc. So I guess it’s fair to link it.

http://www.crossingbroad.com/2011/05/former-villanova-basketball-player-will-sheridan-comes-roaring-out-of-the-closet.html

Funny. In my classes as a history major I seem to remember guys named Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson not being particularly religious and wanting to keep church and state separate from the very start.

Furthermore we as a society have determined that homosexuality is part of who a person is, rather then something a person does (like was thought up to the mid 20th century), so stating that being gay is a lifestyle choice is far worse then calling someone a neanderthal, since the latter is just an insult, while the former denies part of someones fundamental being.

2. Please tell me how you’d feel if you were not allowed to marry the woman you love.

Sorry, no. Although genetics aren’t the whole picture, the scientific evidence is clear that genetics are an important component in sexual orientation. In addition, virtually everyone, whether gay, straight, or bisexual, agrees that their sexual orientation was not a choice.

These facts are well-established. If you insist on clinging to some older, prescientific notions, especially when you put them to use to deny people basic rights (e.g., the pursuit of happiness) that otherwise cost you nothing, than you have entirely earned the tag “Neanderthal.” Congrats.