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The floodgates will now be opened. One can only wonder where this will lead. Will this diminish the stature of professional athletes? Will straight children now look to gay men as role models? What happens when players on opposite sides of the ball are married to each other? We have brothers facing each other now, but husbands and "wives"?
I assume this is just a joke or sarcasm????
There will be the exact same number of gay athletes now as there were then. This makes no difference, he just happened to mention it to the public. People aren't going to "turn gay". Kids can't "turn gay" and there will be no more or fewer gays in athletics just cause some random straight people might know they're gay.
Well, the people that tweet about this are big kids. They can prepare themselves for the firestorm of indignation.
For example, I am a hardcore conservative/libertarian. I "came out" at work which is dominated by liberals. I knew it wouldn't be all unicorns and rainbows for me, but I'm a big girl. I don't force my views on anyone, but if someone strikes up a political conversation with me, I will share my opinions. Has this impacted my career since my boss is a serious lefty? I don't know, but I'm not going to compromise my principles for a boost in my bonus.
Of course, my support of gay marriage really confuses them, because I don't fit into a nice, neat little box!
Well you obviously weren't a big enough "kid" to be vilified by the media if you dare speak your mind. They are and will be.
It has never been explained why it is so gall darned necessary or important that the public be made aware of ones sexuality.
How is this his fault? All he did is mention it in an interview. It's the news media/magazines that go around printing it and spreading it around as if everyone must want to know.
You can't blame gay people for simply stating a fact (that they're gay) and then get mad that the media blows it up all over. Blame the media. Why should a gay person go out of their way to hide the fact theymay or may not be gay just because ESPN may decide themselves to go screaming about it.
For instance, I wear a ring that my wife put on my finger thirty-seven years ago and has never been off, and it tells the world that I am married.
Whenever I meet someone it's rarely more than about five minutes before I mention my wife, or something my sons or doing, or what my wife and I did on the weekend, or some other way of flaunting my heterosexuality.
The federal government knows I'm heterosexual because I flaunt my heterosexuality every time I file an income tax return. So does the state government, and even my town government, because every time I've bought a piece of real estate I have proclaimed to the world that my wife and I have bought it "as husband and wife".
Even on Facebook if you look me up you'll see my marital status, pictures of me with my wife and our sons, wedding pictures.
Maybe you're right. Maybe we should have a law to prevent me from flaunting my heterosexuality.
You do as you please, I just don't see it as news worthy.
That much is very true. Find me a college graduate who makes what is the league min now $750K?? Aint happening very often.
Now the media is monitoring every tweeter feed or press conference all over the country trying to seek out somebody to say something non PC so they can jump up and down and scream homophobe. Like I mentioned before John Amaechi came "out" and nobody cared much. I guess that was back when liberals were told to support Clinton's DOMA he signed though. Now they are told different and follow along like the useful idiots they are.
As for Kluwe there is no "I" in "team" is still a mainstay. Look at Dwight Howard. He'll be on the move again most likely.
Amaechi came out after his career in the NBA was over. So it hardly mattered at that point. There are several names that have done the same, but I don't know of any active players that professed their sexual preferences openly before this. Amaechi commented at the time that to have done so while playing would have been like an alien dropping into the NBA or some such.
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