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NBA Rebukes Tim Hardaway for Anti-Gay Rant (cancels all assignments for All Star Game)
Miami Herald ^ | Posted on Thu, Feb. 15 2007 | Barry Jackson

Posted on 02/15/2007 2:27:25 PM PST by meg88

The NBA today removed Tim Hardaway from its All-Star weekend activities, a day after he said, ''I hate gay people'' in a radio interview with a Miami Herald sports columnist.

''It is inappropriate for him to be representing us given the disparity between his views and ours,'' NBA Commissioner David Stern said in a statement issued by the league.

Hardaway issued an apology several hours after making the comments on The Dan LeBatard Show on 790 The Ticket. ''Yes, I regret it,'' he told WSVN-Channel 7. ``I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said I hate gay people or anything like that.''

Members of gay organizations reacted swiftly to Hardaway's comments.

''Obviously, I'm disappointed in Tim Hardaway being that Tim Hardaway was one of my favorite basketball players,'' said Donnell Morris, managing director of Black Gay Pride of South Florida. ``It creates a hostile environment for any player contemplating coming out of the closet.''

He added: ``For Tim to be a person from Miami where there has always been a diverse community, he should have been more sensitive to his environment. . . . I've always looked up to Tim as a leader. For him to take a stance that way really hurts me.''

Steve Adkins, president of the Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, said Hardaway's apology makes no difference. 'It is a very simple process to say `no' or 'I'd rather not comment' than to go on the record and make malicious and bigoted statements,'' Adkins said.

``. . . Let's just say I'm very disappointed that if someone in this day and age has these kinds of feelings, they're not intelligent enough to keep them to themselves. Beyond that, there is no place in our society for that kind of hatred and bigotry. End of story.''

(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gays; hatespeech; pc; timhardaway
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To: UpAllNight
This is not a first amendment issue.

Exactly, it is merely a problem of those who disagree with speaker, demonstrating their lack of tolerance for diverse viewpoints, that is viewpoints and opinions that are different than their own.

21 posted on 02/15/2007 2:40:18 PM PST by Mark was here (You are guilty of something when you do it, proving your guilt is something else.)
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To: UpAllNight

"This is not a first amendment issue."

Not yet.


22 posted on 02/15/2007 2:43:40 PM PST by John W
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To: LiteKeeper
Did you hear that? The big bang? The one that marked the death of the First Amendment?

The First Amendment applies to the government. Last I checked, the NBA doesn't govern us.
23 posted on 02/15/2007 2:45:24 PM PST by conservative in nyc
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To: meg88

Tim Hardaway should start "Homophobic Clubs of America". He could have a lifetime career.


24 posted on 02/15/2007 2:45:27 PM PST by donna (It's not vanity to want to influence the issues. It's good citizenship.)
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To: meg88

I guess ya gotta be a real piece of crap if you don't love gays.


25 posted on 02/15/2007 2:45:50 PM PST by umgud (The profound is only so to those that it is.)
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To: meg88
Sounds like the NBA is heterophobic.
26 posted on 02/15/2007 2:45:50 PM PST by JRochelle (SuperBowl MVP Peyton Manning is a Republican!)
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To: AmishDude

Yes, and they don't get any more sanctimonious than the sports media. Of all media, they are generally seem to be the least qualified, least relevant, and most moralistic (and probably the least athletic, by no coincidence).


27 posted on 02/15/2007 2:47:49 PM PST by Monti Cello
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To: John W

Exactly. Speech today thats politically incorrect is hate speech tomorrow.


28 posted on 02/15/2007 2:50:56 PM PST by lapdog
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To: meg88

I would have liked to see a bunch of players come out and agree with him and force the hand of the PC crowd. That would be popcorn worthy.


29 posted on 02/15/2007 2:51:27 PM PST by Betty Jane
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To: texas_mrs
``. . . Let's just say I'm very disappointed that if someone in this day and age has these kinds of feelings, they're not intelligent enough to keep them to themselves."

Funny, use to be that queers kept their deviant behavior to themselves. Now those of us who disapprove of this abominable behavior are the ones who aren't "intelligent enough to keep them to themselves"?

"girls will be boys

and boys will be girls,

it's a mixed up, muddled up,

shook up world."

30 posted on 02/15/2007 2:51:48 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: meg88

Only a matter of time until he is sentenced to the gulag for political correctness.


31 posted on 02/15/2007 2:51:53 PM PST by Continental Soldier
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To: meg88

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news.
The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
Robert A. Heinlein


32 posted on 02/15/2007 2:53:29 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: LiteKeeper

Only government can violate the First Amendment.


33 posted on 02/15/2007 2:53:33 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: Mark was here
Exactly, it is merely a problem of those who disagree with speaker, demonstrating their lack of tolerance for diverse viewpoints, that is viewpoints and opinions that are different than their own.

He had the right to say what he said, and the NBA had the right to rebuke him. Just like the Dixie Chicks had a right to diss the Prez on foreign soil and we had the right to boycott them over here. If I said what Hardaway said at my workplace I know I'd get rebuked.

34 posted on 02/15/2007 2:55:21 PM PST by Sans-Culotte ("Thanks, Tom DeLay, for practically giving me your seat"-Nick Lampson)
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To: gate2wire

The love that dare not speak it's name, has now become the love that won't STFU.


35 posted on 02/15/2007 2:57:43 PM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: meg88
The Dan LeBatard show

Ha! his name is french for "Dan the Bastard".

36 posted on 02/15/2007 3:00:40 PM PST by VRWCmember (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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To: dfwgator

And all corporations and public institutions are afraid of them. Amazing. Goodbye nba for me(no great loss.)


37 posted on 02/15/2007 3:01:24 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: LiteKeeper
Did you hear that? The big bang? The one that marked the death of the First Amendment?

In the interest of deflating the hyberbole balloon just a little, let me remind you that the first five words of the First Amendment are "Congress shall make no law" and not "NBA shall make no policy".

38 posted on 02/15/2007 3:03:00 PM PST by VRWCmember (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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To: meg88

Timmy is a Moron.


39 posted on 02/15/2007 3:04:28 PM PST by trumandogz (Rudy G 2008: The "G" Stands For Gun Grabbing & Gay Lovin.)
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To: VRWCmember

In addition to everything else, he was a terrible color commentator.


40 posted on 02/15/2007 3:04:57 PM PST by GSWarrior (Denial is not a mountain in Alaska.)
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