Posted on 05/12/2014 12:14:46 PM PDT by kingattax
When Miami Dolphins safety Don Jones tweeted "horrible" in regards to Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend on ESPN after being drafted by the St. Louis Rams on Saturday, it wasn't a moment the NFL, Sam, the Dolphins or anyone wanted.
But make no mistake, it allowed the NFL an opportunity to send a strong message: If you have public and negative comments about Sam and his sexuality, you will be punished and shamed.
Jones, a second-year strong safety who had 10 tackles in 16 games last year, tweeted "omg" right after ESPN showed Sam's reaction to being drafted. According to thephinsider.com, when asked on Twitter if he was referring to Sam kissing his boyfriend, Jones tweeted, "horrible."
The Dolphins and NFL aren't going to mess around with this type of thing. Jones was fined and suspended from all team activities until he completes educational training for his Twitter comments. The Dolphins didn't put this off. On a relatively quiet Sunday around the NFL, the Dolphins announced the punishment, put out a statement from coach Joe Philbin and an apology from Jones:
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
“Nothing to do with free speech? Are you for real?”
If you don’t accurately understand the problem, you are powerless to attempt to fix it.
I dropped, literally, 95% of my NFL watching when the NFL decided Rush Limbaugh was too controversial to be a part owner of the St Louis Rams.
Now they force the celebration of sodomy onto the league and expect the players to prance in happiness...
My walk-away from the NFL is now at 99% or more....I do hang around with guys who watch and so I will still know what is happening to some degree.
This whole debacle makes me sick. If this guy would just shut up and play, but neither he nor the league want that...they want homosexuality endorsed and embraced.
His employer is free to hold the player accountable.
...so by your lights, should my employer find out that I made highly negative statements, from my armchair at home, with other people present, about Michael Sam tonguing his boyfriend on TV, said employer would be justified in firing me for misrepresenting company policy...
...hopefully you never run for office...
Miami is so full of queers that they can get away with this crap. (Just like the Ferty Winos in Sam Fram Frisko)
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>> “Will they sue people for not buying tickets?” <<
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In My Yammie?
The queers own that bath house.
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Thanks for coming out of your closet!
What a sickening rant!
Hey, brownsfan, I bet I have been one longer than you, and I say a great big
BULLSHIT
To you ‘not free speech’ post.
The big picture here is his now obvious “sexual orientation.”
If you don’t accurately understand the problem, you are powerless to attempt to fix it.
...and while we’re on the subject of not accurately understanding things, you fail to grasp the obvious distinction between the specific protections of the First Amendment, and the vastly broader brush of ‘free speech’ in a supposedly free society...
Larry Craig had a wide stance and he wasn't even a football player.
He sure had some big feet to tap with too!
And while the dolphins don’t “have to” employ Don Jones, bakeries do “have to” bake cakes with two grooms.
Funny thing, huh?
Sure it’s a free speech question. The most powerful institutions in the country — the media, Hollywood and liberal corporate elites — combine to keep their victims out of the public square. The public shaming is backed by the highest authorities in the land — such as the president of the United States.
It does not have to be a legal constitutional matter. But the effect on the man is the same. He is silenced and afraid.
I wish the United Football League succeeded, because I’d be watching the UFL... especially the Hartford Colonials.
Go f yourself! You know my point was that if the employer was punishing someone for publicly stating pro gay marriage beliefs you can bet that the Feds would find a way come down on the business. Nowhere did I state that the employer has no right to punish employees. If you cannot see this as a one-sided PC bill squeezins then it is you who has a reading comprehension problem.
In the moments after George Zimmerman’s acquittal, wide receivers Roddy White of the Atlanta Falcon and Victor Cruz of the New York Giants expressed hope that the jurors and Zimmerman, respectively, would die.
“All them jurors should go home tonight and kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid,” White tweeted. ”Zimmerman doesn’t last a year before the hood catches up with him,” Cruz said in turn.
But look at how this Dolphin, Don Jones, is being treated.
depends which side of the politically correct creek you’re on, doesn’t it ?
Bump
Excellent article and absolutely true. It’s terrifying to me. It’s like a witch hunt if you don’t support the gay lifestyle or gay marriage.
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