Posted on 05/17/2012 12:31:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Floyd Mayweather Jr. weighed in on the same-sex marriage debate recently, opposing rival fighter Manny Pacquiao's views on the traditional definition of marriage.
Mayweather, undefeated 35-year-old fighter who won the WBA (Super) Light Middleweight Championship belt earlier this month, stood behind President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage.
"I stand behind President Obama and support gay marriage," Mayweather tweeted Wednesday. "I'm an American citizen and I believe people should live their life the way they want."
The tweet came days after Pacquiao, 33-year-old Christian Filipino boxer and congressman, reportedly disagreed with Obama's support of redefining marriage to include same-sex couples. In an interview with the National Conservative Examiner while training in Los Angeles, Calif., Pacquiao spoke about the need for society to put "God's words first."
While the 33-year-old boxer said he respected Obama, he told the Examiner that the president should read the Bible, or "manual of life," to better society.
"God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other," Pacquiao said. "It should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah of Old."
Fans of the two boxers, who have avoided facing one another in the ring for years, reacted to their opposing views. One fan took to Twitter to question when they would finally face one another.
"So Manny Pacquiao came out as anti-gay marriage and Floyd Mayweather is pro-gay marriage," one fan wrote. "Can you guys fight yet?"
However, others recognized Mayweather as someone they did not expect to support the homosexual marriage movement.
"Three marriage equality supporters no one saw coming, 1) Jay-Z 2) Will Smith, 3) Floyd Mayweather," the person tweeted.
The debate on same-sex marriage took a turn when Obama publicly expressed his views on the issue last week. Obama explained his reasoning for supporting a redefinition of marriage, using the "Golden Rule" of loving one's neighbor as justification for ignoring other verses condemning homosexuality in the Bible.
"Do unto others as you would have them do to you," the president said in an ABC News interview. "At a certain point I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married."
However, the Rev. Joel Hunter of the 15,000-member Northland Church, who is often referred to as Obama's spiritual adviser, has said he is disappointed with the president's use of the "Golden Rule" to explain his endorsement of gay marriage.
"The Golden Rule is in the Bible but it cannot be used to contradict God's marriage pattern reaffirmed by Jesus in Matthew 19:4-5," Hunter shared in an interview with The Christian Post. "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and the two shall become one flesh?'"
I tend to agree. Manny had a really hard time dealing with the counter punching of Marquez (in all three of their fights) and Mayweather is probably a better counter-puncher and definitely much bigger than Marquez. Manny's punch just isn't that devastating at the higher weights. I think the fight would be a lot like the Mayweather-Cotto fight: Manny would have his moments but Mayweather wins.
If Canelo Alvarez isn't rushed into a Mayweather fight and doesn't outgrow the division, he might be the guy who could finally topple Floyd. Give him a couple of years and the 23-24 yo Alvarez might make Mayweather look his 38-39 year-old age (like he did to Shane Mosley). The rumored plans of James Kirkland, then Miguel Cotto, then Manny, then Mayweather make sense for Alvarez in my opinion.
“I stand behind President Obama and support gay marriage,” Mayweather tweeted Wednesday. “I’m an American citizen and I believe people should live their life the way they want.
So based on this stupid comment then pedophiles can have sex with children?
Mayweather has been hit in the head too many times.........
Did I miss something?
“Pacquiao, 33-year-old Christian Filipino boxer and congressman”
Congressman? What? They have a congress in the Phillipines and they elected a 33 year old boxer to represent them?
RE: They have a congress in the Phillipines and they elected a 33 year old boxer to represent them?
The Philippine system of government is quite similar to the American system ( after all, they were our colony once ).
Pacquiao ran for Congress IN HIS DISTRICT ( just like Charles Rangel ran in his Harlem district and always gets elected ), and WON.
So yes, an active boxer is also a congressman representing his local district of the province of Sarangani.
The only thing he does is run his mouth when it comes to Manny.
This would be one fight I'd pay to see and I haven't done that since Cassius Clay was a Christian and a young'un.
"Three marriage equality supporters no one saw coming, 1) Jay-Z 2) Will Smith, 3) Floyd Mayweather," the person tweeted.
All BLACK LIBERAL DEMOCRATS....with no skills whatsoever...
Alrightee then...
Trying to warn or dissuade your neighbor from marching off to an eternity in hell is not love.
Telling your neighbor, as you know he is marching off to an eternity in hell, that you affirm and celebrate his lifestyle and choices (even though you know his end destination eternity in a fiery pit) ... is love...
His nickname is "Bunny"... I guess now we know why.
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