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I tuned into my local sports station today and it was open season on Tim Hardaway on DC's "The John Thompson Show".

What was most amazing is that almost all of the callers who phoned in did so to speak up for Hardaway and his point of view. I'd say that a majority of them were African-American and more than a few began their calls by proclaiming their faith in Jesus Christ, and while they felt that Hardaway may have made a poor choice of words (hate), many supported his point of view that homosexuality was simply wrong or unnatural.

Coach Thompson and his staff took the callers to task in a number of ways; firstly focusing the entire issue on Hardaway's quote, while not addressing the cause of the discussion - the Ameachi book - he also turned the old trick of asking if Jesus hated homosexuals and disingenuously asking where it was stated in the Bible that homosexuality was wrong. Finally, Coach Thompson turned the topic into a civil rights issue, with his sideman comparing people who were not accepting of homosexuality to Nazis in the holocaust.

It was tiresome to listen to. Thompson missed the whole point of the callers being fed-up and frustrated with homosexual advocacy. I don't think this was incidental though. I felt that he and his show mates were simply carrying water for the PC police.