Posted on 04/05/2015 4:13:58 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
When it comes to his public commentary, there are times when NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is spot on. Then there are times when he’s so far off you know he has no idea on Earth what he’s talking about. Barkley’s recent comments regarding the fabricated controversy over Indiana’s religious freedom bill is a perfect example of the latter.
From the Hill
“America’s always had a racial problem,” Barkley told CNN’s Chris Cuomo late Thursday evening.
“Now we have a homophobic problem,” he continued. “Any form of discrimination, you have to check it.”
Barkley added that Indiana’s latest legislation deliberately targeted people based on their sexual orientation. The retired basketball star, now an analyst on the TNT network, said that discussions about lost religious liberties were thus a false flag.
“Gay people didn’t go after Christians,” he argued. “They came after gay people. Let’s get that straight.”
“It’s strictly about discrimination,” Barkley claimed. “They just don’t like gay people. I wish they would just say that.”
Christians who oppress others “always hide behind the Bible,” concluded Barkley.
I told you- Charles has no clue what he’s talking about.
Sorry Charles, we don’t ‘have a homophobic problem,’ may man. The projection of homophobia onto people who refuse to be coerced into blithely accepting the radical gay agenda is slander- and it’s done intentionally. Rather than Charles- and the Left, particularly- accepting the fact that many people have sincere, ideological and moral objections that accompany the so-called tolerance and diversity of the gay agenda, he simply dismissed and slandered these people as ‘homophobic.’ Please. Very few people are actually afraid of homosexuals. Barkley also continues to do what so many people have done this past week- especially those who haven’t taken the five minutes to actually read Indiana’s bill (or any current religious freedom bill, for that matter) and that’s to read into the bill something that isn’t there. Indiana’s bill doesn’t “deliberately” target people based on their sexual orientation. It doesn’t target anybody, period. But that fact doesn’t matter. To the intellectually lazy and those whose intent is to mischaracterize and slander those with whom they differ, lies and mischaracterization are legitimate tools to be employed in pursuit of their goal.
And of course, Charles blames Christians for discrimination, oppression, and going after gay people while hiding behind the Bible- a book which I doubt he’s read, like so many of the Left- with zero evidence to legitimate such a blatantly false and foolish statement. In actuality, it’s the other way around. Christians have gone out of their way to love their neighbors, doing unto others which they would want done to them, so often, that it’s been abused by its cultural benefactors. Christians have turned the other cheek so much that their faces are sore to the touch.
This isn’t about discrimination. This isn’t about homophobia. This isn’t about Christians oppressing others or going after gay people using the Bible as motivation. This is about the intentional lying, mischaracterization and bullying by people on the Left whose goal- besides upending everything that makes America great- is to stamp out religious freedom because it’s the last recognizable obstacle preventing the Left from fully implementing their morally perverted worldview.
Ummm...yes, Barkley, they did.
what about paedophiles? we are discriminating against them also?
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