Homofascism Makes Hardaway Pay

America Talks ^ | February 17, 2007 | David Zublick

[AmericaTalks]

The fallout over retired basketball player Tim Hardaway's comments regarding homosexuals has been over-the-top.

Hardaway, in a radio interview, said he "hates gay people". He later apologized, but the reverberations from his remarks sparked immediate outrage by the gay community. He was labeled a bigot and a homophobe. The NBA banned him from participating in this weekend's All-Star Game festivities in Las Vegas. Commissioner David Stern said "We acted immediately, we told him he couldn't do any more work for us because his views don't represent our views.

Well, Hardaway's views may not represent the official views of the National Basketball Association, but disapproval of homosexuality does reflect the opinions of a sizeable percentage of the American population. For most of this nation, which the last time I checked was still Christian, homosexuality is not regarded as a genetically engineered condition of birth, but rather an abomination abhorred by God.

Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice, one that is sinful. To most of us, it is revolting. The acts committed in the name of this sin are sick and disgusting. But the gay advocacy groups have a loud voice in this country, and they have forced most Americans to be silent on the issue. The problem is that we are heading down a slippery slope which will eventually force us to "accept" as normal all means of behavior.

How long will it be before pedophilia is considered a lifestyle choice? Or bestiality? And how will those who disagree and are repulsed by these sins be labeled? Pedophobes? Beastophobes? And let's not forget something like polygamy. If you are against men and women having multiple spouses, should you be shunned by society or lose your job because you dare to have this view?

The political correctness that has permeated our society over the last twenty years or so has gotten completely out of hand. Free speech isn't free any more. You say something that offends someone, and you are dead meat. The last time I checked, there was no right not to be offended in the United States Constitution.

Homosexuality has become a religious movement in this country. It is somehow considered sacred and untouchable. Its leaders in this movement act like Nazis and fascists, silencing those who dare to disagree with them. Those of us who find their behaviors abnormal have become too frightened to speak out because of the repercussions we may face.

There was an episode of the Twilight Zone called "It's a Good Life". It starred Billy Mumy as a six-year-old boy who holds an entire town hostage because he has the ability to read their thoughts. And if he doesn't like what they are thinking, he punishes them by wishing them away. That is exactly what is happening with the homosexual movement. If you speak up against it, you are in effect, wished away. I'm not even sure the NBA really believes that Tim Hardaway's views do not reflect their views. But they have to say what they said. They are being held hostage buy the Nazis in the gay religion.

It's really a shame.

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[SaintDismas]

You are right and they are trying to take over the debate by setting the terms of the conversation. When anybody has a "phobia" it implies a mental disease or irrationality is involved. They are trying their best to make us the diseased ones, when it is both their bodies and minds that are diseased. You can't even help people like that back to a normal state when they are so far into denial to even admit that they are not normal, but sick

[Caesar Soze]

It's just that seeing this kind of talk on FR surprised me.

With your reg date? A few years ago, IIRC, a group called Stormfront decided to invade FR. I think some of their residue is still here, poisoning the discourse and discrediting the conservative movement. Certainly, the conservatives I know in real life don't speak -- and, I believe, don't think -- the way many people write on FR.

[InvisibleChurch]

i guess if you add the suffix "fascism" or "fascist", it makes it worse ...

[Sloth]

Do they or do they not support extorting money from me at the point of a gun?

[Sergio]

Thanks for your candor. It is a very polarizing issue but I think I understand why people feel and say the things they do.

The whole, "the gay lifestyle is normal" crowd are like the faucet that won't stop dripping. While what is said should be considered an annoyance at most, it's impossible to get them to stop. With the leaky faucet, if need be, you can turn off the water to the house. There is no way to shut off the homosexual lobby.

You are completely correct in saying that one should learn to differentiate between the idea/act and the person, but it is sometimes very hard to do. Especially when folks are subjected to the constant, drip, drip, drip, of the gay normalcy myth.

Situations like this are what cause frustration to build, resulting in people venting or acting out. FR is a good place for venting, and better to vent, than to act our in a way that get someone arrested or hurt.

[fish hawk]

And you think that they (queers) are born that way and we all have to except that. Of course there is no scientific proof of that at all. It is a learned trait, no one is born with it. If you and your wife want to be "politically Correct" (and we can all see where that is leading us) but don't expect the rest of us non-sheep to go along with it, and I won't throw rocks at your "gay" friends. I don't hate them, it's just that they make me sick with pushing their agenda down our throats. (no pun intended)

[gogeo]

If nothing else, he must have known about Rush's experience with McNabb and ESPN. Of course, he may have approved in that case...

[gogeo]

My lord . . . are you folks really defending this silly man's words?

"Defending" from what? This insipid criticism? I don't have a problem with what Hardaway said. His foolishness in saying it, however, is dwarfed by the foolishness on the other side.

[SeasideSparrow]

If you and your wife want to be "politically Correct" (and we can all see where that is leading us) but don't expect the rest of us non-sheep to go along with it, and I won't throw rocks at your "gay" friends. I don't hate them, it's just that they make me sick with pushing their agenda down our throats. (no pun intended)

Well said.

[Dick Vomer]

[Frank_2001]

Agreed! He should have stuck to his guns instead of groveling, he has the right to his opinion! He's also a millionaire, so if nobody hires him for PC reasons, SO WHAT? I imagine that his handlers are all 20-and 30-somethings for whom queers have 'always' been liberated. The latest is that the queer mayor of North Miami has condescendingly offered to show Hardaway a day at his office doing all the things regular folks do (I assume that will not include watching the Mayor bend over to get serviced by his loverboy;)

[mjolnir]

I'm sorry to hear that about your wife's friend. You definitely make some good points, but I think the author of the above article does as well.

Homosexuality is a delicate subject. Most, but not all Americans would agree that both the act that characterizes it and basing one's life around the culture that's in turn based around that act is (are) wrong in some sense, i.e. most Americans see heterosexulaity as not only the norm of sexuality, but the fact that it is the norm as a good thing.

Suppose most Americans are correct. Homosexuality is wrong how, and just how wrong is it?

Is homosexuality wrong in the same kind of way that polygamy is wrong, or is it wrong in the way being a Marxist or Gaia worshipper is wrong, or wrong more in the way that bestiality is wrong?

And if it shouldn't be criminalized by the courts, should it still be censured by society?

Alasdair Macintyre would say that our language of morality has been hollowed, because it lacks its previous foundation in which it was understood that human beings were not simply random animated bits of matter but beings designed with several purposes in mind, embodied by what were called virtues and described by what was called the natural law. My guess, and it's just speculation, is that Tim Hardaway lacks the vocabulary to describe why he disapproves of homosexuality and so he simply expresses his opinion in terms of his feelings of repulsion-- a perfect example of how emotivism has replaced natural law as the moral philosophy implicit in what often tries to pass for serious moral discourse today.

Here's my point: why is Tim Hardaway of all people being peppered with these kinds of questions? I wish the sports media would stop pushing social consciousness and just do sports.

[amchugh]

"a perfect example of how emotivism has replaced natural law as the moral philosophy implicit in what often tries to pass for serious moral discourse today."

I'm going to frame that and put it on my wall; well said.

[amchugh]

George Takei's response. You might find it sick, but I had to laugh.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Hardaway is baned for words, but Sprewell only gets a year suspension for chokling his coach. Yeah, that's balance.

Kobe Bryant???

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...a group called Stormfront decided to invade FR. I think some of their residue is still here, poisoning the discourse and discrediting the conservative movement.

I almost didn't see your post... Interesting... I have a few suspicions...

[kerryusama04]

Kobe Bryant???

I see your Kobe and raise you a Marv Albert.

[AmishDude]

The reaction was only 0.3 on the Rocker scale.

[Wolfie]

Yup. Seems lost on more than a few folks, though.

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