Ex-Bears QB Miller: Religion a barrier for gays in locker room

Chicago Tribune ^ | February 26, 2013

[ConservativeStatement]

Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim Miller cited religion Tuesday in arguing that an openly gay player would not be welcomed in NFL locker rooms.

“There are some religions that are just not going to accept a gay individual in the locker room,” Miller told "The McNeil and Spiegel Show" on WSCR-AM 670. “So now, are you as an organization going to bring that element into your locker room and think everything is going to be OK?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

The use of any drug, including alcohol, IMHO, would be wrong if it caused or somehow encouraged sinfulness in the life of a believer.

So it's true of any drug including alcohol that "The problem is right and wrong" if and only if it causes or somehow encourages sinfulness in the life of a believer? That I can agree with. Can we further agree that both pot and alcohol sometimes but not always cause or encourage sinfulness in the life of a believer?

[fattigermaster]

So if someone argues with you, it justifies slander. So nice to meet you, Jesus.

[newzjunkey]

The problem is you insist upon conflating your religious perspective (boiled down to "sins should be illegal") with the law of the land in a nation state with freedom of religion, individual unalienable right to Liberty and pursue of happiness, and, wherein, the State's only interest in licensing what it wrongly calls "marriage" is in property rights and who'll take responsibility.

[editor-surveyor]

Wrong Mr Junkie.

Marriage is chiefly a “religious” contract, having little or no other meaning. Government has no business in marriage; it is a violation of the first amendment free exercise clause.

[editor-surveyor]

Who is he hating?

[editor-surveyor]

I could care less is correct; it’s a sarcastic comment, and being over specific would destroy the sarcasm.

Some are simply not sufficiently cogent to grasp those nuances I guess.

[ConservativeStatement]

It was a poke at his use of “could” instead of “couldn't” as others later mentioned.

[Past Your Eyes]

"I could care less is incorrect; it’s a sarcastic comment made in ignorance.

Fixed.

[RoosterRedux]

The problem is you insist upon conflating your religious perspective (boiled down to "sins should be illegal")...

No I didn't.

Nowhere did I say "sins" should be illegal.

I merely said that there is a war (and there always has been) between the forces or good and evil, right and wrong.

As to gay marriage, there are civil unions already available. What the Gay Agenda wants is a declaration by all of society including religion, that sodomy is normal.

Sodomy is not normal or healthy...it is a mental disorder.

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Cognizant” is, I believe, the word which you intended.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Even worse, driven by a spiritual disorder.

Nobody sane wants or expects a gummit to ban every single solitary evil thing. It would have to be such a colossal nanny that it would fall all over itself in its own ineptitude (this is not a government of perfected saints we are speaking of, but one of fallen sinners). It can both practically and legitimately ban some broad classes of evils that no reasonable person would disagree with, like murder or thievery, or careless spread of deadly and disfiguring disease.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Government has no business in marriage

So you think government should stop issuing marriage licenses?

[editor-surveyor]

NO!

I could care less is what was intended. Couldn’t is what the slow mind replaces it with, not grasping the sarcasm intended. This is an old quip that is just another piece of our culture that has been destroyed by PC news boobs.

[editor-surveyor]

Since marriage is YHVH’s institution, the only ‘license’ that is appropriate is his.

Government issuance of a license invites government definition of what marriage is; do you want that?

Anyway, marriage was not the point of my comment. It’s the intrusion of government into interpersonal relationships of any kind that is wrong. I used marriage because it was easily shown that government has no place in it.

[editor-surveyor]

Another rotation of the same entity, but I wasn’t aiming at recognition of, but usage of loaded communication, which is what I believe Mr Miller was attempting. He was trying to inform the reporter that they had no dog in the fight.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The two words derive from different roots. Cogent is to be organized and forceful and effective. Cognizant means to perceive and know. Being cognizant helps in some ways of being cogent, but they are not the same thing twisted around.

[Past Your Eyes]

If you want to know the truth, I couldn’t care less and not only that, I COULD care less what you think, irregardless.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “irregardless.” <<

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No word could better describe your intellect.

[Past Your Eyes]

I can see that I am wasting my time on a humorless person without even a modicum of understanding of irony such as yourself. But then, I really COULDN'T care less what you think.

[editor-surveyor]

“Irregardless” I’m sure!