Barkley: 'Religious Freedom' Laws About 'Rednecks' Using Bible to Discriminate

Breitbart ^ | April 3, 2015 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

On a CNN special hosted by Chris Cuomo on Thursday night about the religious freedom laws, former NBA great and TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley offered his open on that issue.

According to Barkley, he sees those laws as having more than meets the eye motivating them.

“Listen, I don’t think gay people went out to try to go after, they came out as a gay people let get that straight,” Barkley said.

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[Rufus2007]

Barkley should take another shot at reading the good book before passing that judgment on people of faith...

[Flag_This]

Barles Charkley should limit his comments to things he knows something about.

[donna]

Forcing Christians to participate in gay sexual ceremonies and activities is rape.

[MrB]

That’s the point -

renounce Christ or we ruin/kill you.

[NormsRevenge]

Methinks chahles is full of himself..amongst other things.

[SeekAndFind]

No religious freedom laws are about gays using their sexual orientation to BULLY devout Christians.

[Steely Tom]

He’s entitled to his opinion, just as I am to mine.

[concerned about politics]

This is why no one watches CNN. No one wants that homo crap shoved in their faces anymore.
Times are a changen'. Too bad it'll take years for the politicians and business to catch up with the rest of the country. They have no idea all those pro-homo e-mails they're getting are just a handful of fascist queers using spam mail.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

'Cause nothing says moral beacon like a guy with multiple mugshots

[lormand]

Thankfully, I have banished most things involving sports in my life so I only read about these stories second hand. When Formula One starts to sexualize the sport with LGBTQWERTY outreach, I will abandon them too.

[MeshugeMikey]

he was okay as far as: “Listen, I don’t think “ went!

[ThePatriotsFlag]

So all the members of the black churches that just left the Presbyterian church are “rednecks?” I wonder how many of them know that. Barkley is behind the times, he still thinks this is a black white issue instead of a Christian “secular” issue.

[Nowhere Man]

I know in debates here, I get into it at times, I'm more of a "libertarian, South Park, Barry Goldwater type," but I do support those who do not wish to go against their conscience and beliefs to do something they do not want to do nor should they be forced bt the government, "The Man," or the "powers that be." We have freedom of conscience in this country or we did. If this passes where the baker or pizza place must be force to cater against their beliefs, next thing you know, Quakers and Amish could be forced to fight if there is a draft, doctors will be forced to perform abortions against their beliefs and so on. I admit there are hotheads on both sides here, although in this case, there is more of them on the LGBT side. Like Glenn Beck said, there should be respect for each other's beliefs and if one baker or whatever will not do it, then there are others who will. We need free markers and free minds.

It's a shame we are fighting over this when we have much bigger and scarier issues like ISIS, Iran and that crazy nut Putin in Russia.

[tuffydoodle]

When Isis comes after those phags with murderous intent, they will be screaming like little girls, hiding behind those well armed Christian rednecks.

[fatnotlazy]

Barkley always looks like he’s wearing eye makeup.

[Cold Heart]

Wasn’t he just in Kenya yesterday

[tophat9000]

Black have put a historical claim on the N-word.. and reserve the right to be offended if other use it and use it to mock

Christians and other faiths have a far longer historical claim on the concept of marriage...religious faiths invented the concept ...and reserve the right to be offended and use it to mock

[MortMan]

Listen, I don’t think gay people went out to try to go after...

Assumes facts contrary to evidence.

Barkley is naive, at best.

[MortMan]

If we cannot fight multiple fronts as conservatives, we are destined to lose on all fronts.

This cultural front is a fight to preserve the foundation of the country, without which the external fights are meaningless.

[boycott]

Chuck has always been a meathead.

He’s racist too. He was once quoted as saying, “I hate white people.”

Imagine if a white man had said something like that about blacks? They certainly wouldn’t be working for ESPN.