A kind of dunk for Hardaway?
Former Heat player Tim Hardaway is getting all kinds of grief for making anti-gay comments. And he very well should. What he said on the radio was hateful.
Two thoughts come to mind:
1) What he said publicly people say privately. He's far from alone in these sentiments. Doesn't make it right but it does show the extent of prejudice.
2) However we feel about Hardaway's words -- and the apology that followed -- he has every right to spout horrible words. We, in turn, have every right to censor him. That's what makes America great.
Two thoughts come to mind:
1) What he said publicly people say privately. He's far from alone in these sentiments. Doesn't make it right but it does show the extent of prejudice.
2) However we feel about Hardaway's words -- and the apology that followed -- he has every right to spout horrible words. We, in turn, have every right to censor him. That's what makes America great.
posted by Ana Veciana-Suarez at 8:34 AM
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My thoughts are this:
1. If it had been a white player, making similar remarks about blacks -- how would Timmy have reacted?
2. Do you think that these feelings are unique to Tim? How many other professional (and amateur) athletes voice the same sentiment -- just NOT on radio?
I think that we need to balance (somehow) the need for control over hate-filled and bigotted statements with a person's 1st ammendment rights. How do we reconcile the two? I have no idea.
Who cares what Tim thinks or says? Did any one of us elect him to represent us? NOOOO!!
He is just a man that happened to be good at basket ball - it doesn't mean that he is smart. Does it?????
Question: Why is Tim Hardaway's opinion wrong and others opinion right?
Question: To all parents, would you like your sons to grow up gay?
Please do not answer whatever makes them happy.
What is your preference?
FemaleFan
female fan asked if parents would want their sons to be gay? Well as a gay man and a parent the answer is definitely no. That being said, would you want your son live a sad tortured life denying a basic truth to make you as a parent happy? Would you want your daughter to marry a closeted man because he is making his parents happy? Recent history is riddled with the ruined families, careers, lives of men who denied this basic truth about themselves.
So what difference does it make. My son is straight, he's 18 and is touring in a rock band instead of going to college. He's not making me happy right now. So much for silly parental expectations.
Kirk Arthur, kirk@savedade.org
Perhaps the real question we should be asking is not whether we would want our children to be gay, but rather, what are the underlying causes of the social disadvantes of being gay in our society?
Yes, ignorant persons are entitled to their opinions, but a responsible society needs to point out and explain why they are ignorant. Being gay is not, for most, a choice. If we do, indeed, "hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal", then homophobia is not only an affront to reason and basic respect for humanity, it is also an affront to the United States and the principles upon which it was founded.
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