Posted on 05/07/2014 10:51:32 PM PDT by stillonaroll
His comments when Jason Collins came out didn't square for team with gay president.
...I’ve often wondered how comfortable it was for Jackson and team president Rick Welts to co-exist in the same organization. Welts is openly gay, becoming the first high-ranking executive in professional sports to come out back in 2011...Jackson is a fundamental [sic] Christian, who embraces what some call “traditional values”. And he wasn’t shy about letting people know his views.
... When Jason Collins made his historic pronouncement last year that he was gay, Jackson’s immediate response came out sounding less-than-supportive.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...
Does that mean that a gay black has the least fear of being fired???
They should be sued out of business. Gay is the new Race card.
Where are all the liberals that want more black coaches?
I wish Curry had pointed to Virginia Tech but that’s an aside.
but you can also be fired if you are not sufficiently pro-homosexual.
...I have not seen evidence of that...yet...but two things come to mind...it would be difficult to measure ‘sufficiently’ pro-gay, and if it ever happens that there is a metric for such a thing in the workplace, it would be one of the greatest non-homocidal human rights abuses to ever take place...
...I doubt companies will initiate such a venture...it would have to come from the government, and then filter down to the businesses through the forces of suasion and subtle dictate...
Hiring a coach who is a minority and completely supportive of of The G Word is going to be difficult.
What'd Jackson do, say "I'll pray for you"? < /sarc >
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Please consider these measurables:
1) Whether one contributed to the yes on Prop. 8 campaign.
2) Whether an employee completes "sensitivity" training where participants must affirm pro-gay attitudes.
3) In companies where marketing activity is compensated, whether one markets to gay-oriented groups.
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Perhaps, but the team will certainly ask the candidate about gay issues, and will do some investigative work to find out what he had said in the past and whether he contributed to Prop. 8.
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Yes, that's almost exactly what he said:
"As a Christian man, I have beliefs of what’s right and what’s wrong. That being said, I know Jason Collins, I know his family, and am certainly praying for them at this time.”
Mark Jackson said no such thing. He said he was praying for the openly gay player.
The left's standard is getting even stricter. In their eyes, you must be emphatically pro-gay if you have any kind of public job. The scary part is that this will inevitably trickle down to people with regular, non-public jobs.
Employment interviews will ask about job candidate's "tolerance." Background checks will look into whether someone donated to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign.
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I must respectfully disagree. In my view, popular culture is more like a ratchet, ever moving leftward and more degenerate. Every few years the ratchet moves rightward, but it does not change anything. Then the ratchet moves left again, moving the culture with it.
Just a few decades ago, no one envisioned that homosexual "couples" would be widely portrayed in a positive light on prime-time television, and that advertisers would be enthusiastically supportive of such programming.
Further, no one would have envisioned that a general manager of a team in a major U.S. sport would be openly "gay."
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Yup. It also means that, if someone wants to enhance their job security, just pretend to be "gay."
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