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NBA's Tim Hardaway: 'I Hate Gay People'
By Stone Martindale Feb 15, 2007, 15:37 GMT
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So he hates gay people, so what?
The only thing I don't like about gays is that every one I've met can't shut up about their private lives.
There's a difference between tolerance and acceptance. I tolerate them, I do not accept them and I certianly don't celebrate them.
Either way I sure as heck wouldn't want to share a lockerroom shower with a guy who is attracted to guys.
Some people have pathological hate inside them and they vent it towards the safest target.
Straight guys who are secure about their masculinity are NOT homophobic.
These same homophobes love seeing two women sucking on each other. But when it comes to two gay men - there is nothing in it for them.
These homophobes are evil, hateful, insecure, and hypocritical.
Homosexuality is a sexual orientation that a person is born with. Is that too complicated for these morons to understand?
Yeah, what's the problem?
I hate black people. I don't like them in the united states, or them flaunting their blackness. If I had to work with one, I would distance myself from it.
I also agree. I wouldn't want to share a locker room with someone who is gay and same gender. I hate it when gay ppl let everybody know that they are gay, like if we give a fk. if u are gay then keep it to urself.
everyone everyone I have a announcement to make.... I am straight ... so now I should be the topic of the day. stfu, if u are gay then keep it to urself we don't want to know. plus look at his face, he look so fking gay, u don't need to make announcement for ppl to know that u are gay, just look at urself n the mirror.
I don't mind straight people... just as long as they act gay in public.
I am gay and play sports, I bend over all the time for toher men...soo what!?
Hardaway has every right to feel the way he does and say so. I’m tiered of the fascist left telling everyone that disagrees with them that what they believe is wrong, and your not allowed to think that way.
More power to Hardaway, he can represent me in Congress.
We seem to be to the point that if we have negative feelings about something it is magniified and exagerated by the talking heads. I suppose I understand that being as how we now have 24 hour sports and news channels and they have nothing to talk about rather than the same boring stuff that they continously beat us over the heads with until the next blurb comes out they can exercise their OCD.
What we must realize is that we must accept that its entirely human to have negative feelings about somethhing to the extent that you want to exclude that from your life. I'm not sure who coined the term '----phobic' for something that people felt uncomfortable bringing into their lives. Probably a talking head or a shrink. I wonder if the lack of using the term psyshiatrist in the last sentance makes me 'psycophobic'? Hmmmmmmmmmmm
To be attracted to a person of one's own sex is a mental illness. So-called 'gay' people (and the rest of us as well) would be far better off if they would simply acknowledge this fact and expend their energies and creativity on solving their problem (vis-a-vis seeking affirmation for a goofy and destrictive lifestyle).
What is wrong with not wanting to shower with people who are oriented toward desiring sexual relations with your own gender? Would we be fretting and wringing our hands if Lisa Leslie stated she didn't want to get naked and shower with Alan Iverson? Sexual orientation should be kept to one's self, and when a person wants to cash in and sell a book, like Ameche, we shouldn't condemn people who find a problem with that. Homosexuality was a recognized, mental disease until the mid-1970's, when political pressure (not scientific evidence) forced psychiatric professionals to drop it from their medical diagnostic research manuals. What kind of nation have we become?
The pathetic rant of ignorance! 'I Hate.' What makes straight guys think that a gay guy would give them a second look anyway? Don't flatter yourself! There is nothing attractive about narrow minded, brain dead cave men!
Homophobic? No such thing. It's in our DNA to pro 'create.' Revulsion to sodomy is a good and natural thing -- it has served to benefit our species.
Now, heterophobia is a more insidious problem. As our culture plumbs the depths of depravity and debauchery, heterophobic saboteurs endeavor to spread their personal pathology like a pandemic hydra virus, to our youngsters. I mean, do you see straight folk having 'Straight Power' marches, wherein the participants display every despicable filthy thought they have? I don't hate homosexuals. Jesus commands that we forgive and love our brothers and sisters -- a command I endeavor to obey. But that doesn't be I have to love their filthy behavior.
What consenting adults do in the privacy of their homes (including drug use) is not the governments' business. But when the heterophobes take over the democrat party and the teachers unions so they can indoctrinate our kids, that crosses the line.
td
Me doth think he protests too much. You know they say that the more homophobic a man is the more likely it is that he is questioning his own sexuality. Usually the guys that are like 'gay, straight - whatever, just as long as he doesn't make a move on me I don't care' are the ones that are totally straight. ;)
Timmy is a moron. Plain as that. I am not gay, and frankly I do not like being hit on by gay men, but it has happened quite a bit. So what? I don't like ugly women either and many have hit on me, as well. Timmy has got issues. Why should he care if a gay person is in the shower next to him? Is he such a punk that he thinks he's gonna get raped? Does the think his inner woman is gonna get the best of him. Look at yourself. The hatred expressed against gay people is simply based on feelings of personal insecurity. I don't like flies either, but it's a waste of time to talk about how I 'hate' them.
Can't we all just get along?
Boy, I can understand Tim Hardaway's angst. I have the same problem with people who ravage their finger nails in public. They freak me out. It is no less than a cannibalistic venture into self-mutilation. In the shower is the worst because the offender often resorts to spitting out hardened flesh shards onto the shower floor. Does anyone realize how this kind of human debris clogs plumbing? I say, if you have to bite your nails then do it somewhere else, but don't share it with us well manicured he-men.
Will,
Are you for real? I have a challenge for you. Look in the mirror. The man staring back at you is ignorant. There is hope for you. Amaechi is a gay man. So what? Even if he looks 'gay', which he doesn't, it's how God created him so to shame someone for living their life the way they were made is not only unfair, it's tragic. You have no idea the ways that your hateful words slice through the souls of people you hate. Get to know some gay people. I have a feeling once you do, you might reconsider spouting hateful comments.
first of all being gay is not something you are born with. it is a choice. It is disgusting and perverted. If you are gay its your fault that you cant control your perverted feelings. Get over the belief of natural born gays it is not true!
I have no problem with gay people... or anyone really but i do have a problem with the bitchy, slaggish, loud and offensive gay culture that they a lot of them seem to be so proud of. gay people want us to think of them as just like everyone else yet they don't believe they should act like everyone else.
Alot of them remind me of spoiled brats nowadays
Homosexuality is NOT a mental illness. A small percentage of the population is born with an homosexuial sexual orientation. It is biological. Do your research.
Fear and hate of gays is however a mental illness - called extreme insecurity, fear of the unknown, ignorance, bigotry.
Get over it or shut up.
Bias is Bias no matter what the case, whether it be against gender, race, sexual orientation or religion. Usually its against things not understood. There in lies the problem - - ignorance and narrow-mindedness. People are different. Just think how boring the world (or the US) would be if everyone was didn't accept things they didn't understand. You don't understand how all the parts in your car work together, but that never stopped you from driving one.
What Tim Hardaway is really saying is that he'd like an 8' dildo put in his ass-- he just can't bring himself to say it any other way. Unbelievable piece of errant DNA. I'm still working to find Nicole's killer and get this damn glove on...... son of a bitch it's tight....
So I hate stupid sports figures, homophobes, racists, sexists and creationists. Can i get my own talk show?
I hate black people too. I would absolutely hate to have to share a loccer room with them or play on the same court as them. Oh, wait. I sound just as low class and uneducated as Tim. I would love to see all the bigots on this board post their education credentials and IQ. I'm feeling a trend...
You are an idiot. The reason I say this is because God doesnt make people act,look,or become gay. God just gives them the choice. In the Bible homosexuality is a SIN.
Y ARE GUYS SO WEIRD??
Are you kidding me? This is the year 2007 and as we progress as a society, so should our tolerance for difference. People who are gay, are gay. It's not a choice. What if I were to say I hate black people? I would be an ignorant biggot for hating someone for the color of their skin. In my mind, it's all the same. We all need to stop worrying about who's gay, or who's black, or who's different in any way from who we are and start paying attention to more important things like the fact that we are headed towards WWIII and who's going to blow up who first. What is wrong with this country? Give it up!
The keyword here is HATE, not gay. He HATES them?!? Hate is what defines the worst of humanity. Hey Tim, maybe you should move to the middle east and join up with Al Queda, they hate gay people AND America too. How about the Nazi's, they hate gay people AND Jews. Oh, how about the KKK, they hate gay people. Oh, sorry about that last one, you can't join them, they hate black people too. These are your new teammates on the team you've chosen to play for.
Gays are a diease to this society!!
If there were anything natural about it, civilization would cease to exist. When did the world get turned so upside-down that people find this acceptable? To call someone 'homophobic' would denote a fear of something. The only thing people fear about homosexuality is how it's tearing apart the very fabric of our society by destroying the family units which have been the core reason civilization has thrived to the extent it has. What really is a shame is the fact that most people are afraid to say what they REALLY feel on the issue, for fear of being branded 'hateful' or 'intolerant'. Gay people can get 'in your face' with their propensities and are lauded for their 'bravery', but the minute someone straight speaks THEIR mind on the issue, they're summarily vilified and sent to 'sensitivity training'. What a joke. What really ought to be happening here is all of these people who are so easily offended should be sent to 'suck it up and stop whining' training. What really should be considered a crime is criminalizing offending someone with mere words. Do we allow children to bring charges against each other for saying one has 'cooties' or some such nonsense? Of course not - they're just words. The person those words are directed at is offended, but they deal with it and get over it without litigation. Regardless of age, words are just that - words. But in today's society, there's freedom of speech only for those who speak with a form of political correctness, and speak words that are acceptable only under those conditions. Where would this country - or any other country for that matter - be today if those that fought to establish freedom would have been concerned about 'offending' someone's sensitivities? I congratulate Tim Hardoway for having the intestinal fortitude to speak up for what HE feels and what HE believes - for having the courage to stand up in public and say what HE thinks, and not just spew a bunch of politically correct nonsense.
Please dont waste your time with the belief that being gay is ok. well its not.
Mr. Hardaway, you obviously have many insecurities. I think there are more important issues to focus. Who really cares whether a person is living an alternative life style? It really does not affect you...so why bother. Mr. Hardaway, you maybe 'gay' and using this moment to express your pretentious feelings publicly.
Grow up Mr. Hardaway...the same people who spent money to watch you play the game of basketball, were probably gay too. Your agent, coach, brother, sister, teacher, banker or close friends are probably living a lifestyle you hate. Educate yourself before you make statements that could cost you opportunities in the future. You are entitled to your opinion...however, when everything is said and done, you will be judged no different from next person.
Ask God or who your spiritual support to forgive you. We all are human; do not let the flesh control the great man you are...
Derrick
The portion of the brain that regulates sexuality is biologically different in straights and gays. It is called the hypothulmus region of the brain stem.
Homosexuality is biological - call it a glitch or call it an evolutionary device for population control. The fact is - it is biological and not a choice.
Hardaway and some of the posters here are so moronic that it is unbelievable.
If you don't understand something or are ignorant just say so.
Judge people on an individual basis not on a trait.
I had never worked with anyone I knew to be gay until the position I am in right now. I am an IT/Network manager and have found tolerance but I do believe that where you must be naked and showering and hanging out privately there is no place for a gay man. I should not have to be self concious about who is leering at me and who is not. If you are gay fine but ensure that there is a proper facility where you can shower and be as gay as you want by yourselves. Now this is not anything at all different from women being n the same room. Although, as a heterosexual male, I would be more tolerant of naked women in the showers with me, I would not condone such a thing because of the position it places everyone in. Sexual harrassment is able to happen and it doesn't matter whether Gay, straight, male or female! In closing I just would say that maybe Tim was a bit rough in his statement but the truth be told is that I on't wholeheartedly disagree with him. I would be shocked to find out I was showering in a bathroom or disrobing in a locker room with someone gay and would call for a resolution as soon as possible or give him the locker room after or before I was to go into it. There is nothing wrong with that there is something wrong with hate.
I hate people who are racist, sexist or homophobic. What a bunch of losers you guys are, including Hardaway, who have racist prejudice thoughts. Every human being should be treated equal, unless or until that individual acts in a way that warrants scrutiny.
For a black man in America, with all the racism in the world, to 'hate gays' shows how ignorant and idiotic Tim Hardaway. What a sad person.
I do not hate the gays but I dont agree with there lifesyle.
>>What is wrong with this country?
It's funny to hear big, grown, so-called verile, competitive sports men talk about being threatened by gay men, especially in the locker room; a place where so-called heterosexual men show off their manliness, while slapping each other on the butt? These guys, through their hateful, homophobic comments reveal more about themselves than the target of their scorn. First, it reveals their enormous egos that every gay man desires them (NOT!); and second, it reveals their ultimate fantasy of being overpowered and seduced by a gay man--a person they publicly and loudly decry as fairies and queens--and forced into situation where they are powerless and have no choice but to play the submissive role. It reminds me of the old saying, 'In every king there's a queen waiting to come out.'
You are pathetic. Stop trying to justify that being gay is something you are born with.
How can predudice not be ignorant hate? 'I hate jews. I hate negroes and I HATE gays' Are you the same type of person who would have been a segregationist in the 60's? A sympathizer in the 30's? How is this any different? So in the future we will look back at the turn of the 21st century when the ignorant majority hated homos. I predict at least 10% of the NBA will be openly gay in 50 years, and nobody except the dumbest of the dumb will have any problem with it. Don't believe me? How about when black athletes first began to play pro sports 60 years ago, and ignorant white guys who wouldn't shower at the same time. its the same. replace gay with another word and you'll see how stupid you are. There is a genetic coorelation. Find me one scientific study that doesn't find a genetic coorelation to homosexuality. Identical twins and non-identical twins raised in seaparate environments since birth are 20 times more likely to be gay if their twin brother, who they've never met, is gay. Now tell me how thats not genetic.
This will probaby be censored.
I support Tim in his decision to say that he has a problem with gay people, it's a free country 'I think'. I also believe that being gay is a mental disease. Pro-creation proves it. Is your mom gay? Well if she was then you wouldnt be here,....unless you were concieved from a tube and that is un-natural my friend.
We dont need more prisons, we need more psych wards for all of the gays. We put killers in jail because they are insane, yet we let gay priests and nuns abuse kids and remain free on bail. Gays are insane.
We live in a time when it is okay to promote population control through physical and mental disease. I say it is not okay, and the human people need to get on the right track, and promote healthy relationships between men and women, because that is the real issue, not Tim Hardaways comment.
Dont be gay
Heterophobia is what's wrong with America these days.
td
I hate all you liberal hippies out there that are ok with a NBA player that has a mental illness. The guy probly makes everyone uncomfortable on his team. Guy that puts his thing in another guy is not alright in my eyes. If a person will do that what else will they do, maybe sex with a animal or little kid!!!
Am I the only sane one in this discussion? So nobody else hates people who constantly bite their nails? Jeesh.
By the way, I have never known a gay person to engage in onychophagia. That's saying something.
People like Tony and Tim are the reason why racism and discrimination still exist in society today. Homosexuality is not my preference but we have to be more excepting to people who have different preferences. It’s time people stop acting so ignorant! Tony wouldn’t work with a black person, but I bet he wouldn’t tell a black person this. Instead he hides behind his computer and continues to feed a divided world.
Who's talking about feeling threatened? Distracted and disgusted, yes. Threatened, no.
Yes Mills, we must not have a divided world. No borders. No different currencies. No hate. In fact, let's eliminate sports teams. We'll all just take the field and encourage each other to catch, pass, and kick the ball to one another. Let's strive for one world governance where lions lay with lambs, and people fondle without discretion.
mills i agree wit u
All bald people should wear wigs.
Everyone should speak English.
All nail biters should wear gloves.
Can I get some catsup for my Freedom Fries.
All ugly people should have surgery.
All liquid is banned from carry on luggage.
Blah.
Half of the population will always be dumber than the other half. *sigh* reality sucks.
If being gay is un-natural, then being white must also be un-natural. Only 17% of the world's population is white, and it's getting smaller. Approximately 10% is gay. That's only 7 % difference.
Chicago/J-Bone and Tim Harrdaway,
You guys are a disgrace. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Very sad.
And before you send back some derogatory email. I am straight and married, and ashamed of people that think like you.
Tim go hug a tree
The dna foul up causing homosexuality is kin to the dna foul up that causes pedophilia. One pathology is celebrated, the other is punished. NAMBLA
I certainly would not want to share a locker and shower next to a gay person. Being gay unnatural and sinful. Have you heard of sodome and gomorrah? They are in hell...
The dna foul up causing homosexuality is kin to the dna foul up that causes pedophilia. One pathology is celebrated, the other is punished. As for cultural acceptance, NAMBLA is where homosexuals where 40 years ago. Unthinkable, but on course to be 'normed' by the septic heart of our pop culture.
Truer words have never been spoken JimK. Is being gay difficult to learn? If I am able to succeed as a gay apprentice, will I automatically have exquisite tastes, fashionable clothing, and be able to discern fine wines?
First I want to mention what one person's comment here. He stated that he doesn't like gay people because they 'can't shut up about their private lives'. I have never known any heterosxual who didn't repeatedly -each and every day- remind me that they are heterosexual. That is NOT a big deal because sexuality is an important part of who we are. I can't imagine a woman not talking about her boyfriend, husband, or some cute guy she knows, I can't see a heterosexula guy not talking about... women.
People (such as the aforementioned commentor) get away with expecting homosexuals to keep quiet about their relationships because the heterosexual majority can. They can repress gays and they can villify gays. Which they do regularly.
Now to Hardaway.. What a jerk. There were many people who once felt that blacks shouldn't be allowed to share space with whites. Now a black heterosexual guy wants to segregate against homosexuals.
Please don't give me the garabage that a gay guy can change who he is but a black person can't. The fact of the matter is that black people can change their color. Just take a look a Michael Jackson. No reasonable person would expect a black person to bleach their skin. Expecting a homosexual to conceal his or her sexuality is no different. Heterosexuals don't see it that way but just ask a heterosexual sometime to pretend to not be heterosexual. Just watch the reaction.
We have freedom of speech. Hardaway can express his opinions on anything he wants to just like the KKK and neo-nazi have the legal right to express themselves. When I hear any supremasist group -KKK, neo nazis, or chumps like Hardaway- I just change the channel.
trad dadFeb,
Homosexuality is NOT like pedophilia. Everyone has a sexual orientation.
Don't you?
Pedophlia involves innocent, vulnerable children.
You are ignorant.
Those who agree with Hardaway,
Your comments are embarassing to yourself, your religion, your race and your sexuality.
Anyone that 'hates gays' in general terms represents a low form of humanity.
All you people who chose NOT to be gay, tell me about it. How did that process work for you? Was it a tough choice? Was there turmoil? Did you experiment with both sides so you could make an educated choice?
Will,
Choice? Who would choose to be gay? Get real. Who would choose to be the target of your hatred?
And who amongst us has a choice as to what we look like?
God created us, so to mock, shame or ridicule someone's appearance is blasphemy.
Homosexuality is biological, suggests gay sheep study
NewScientist.com news service
Helen Phillips, Orlando
A study of gay sheep appears to confirm the controversial suggestion that there is a biological basis for sexual preference.
The work shows that rams that prefer male sexual partners had small but distinct differences in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, when compared with rams that preferred to mate with ewes.
Kay Larkin and colleagues from Oregon Health and Science University found the difference was in a particular region of the hypothalamus - the preoptic nucleus. The region is generally almost twice as large in rams as in ewes. But in gay rams its size was almost identical to that in 'straight' females.
The hypothalamus is known to control sex hormone release and many types of sexual behaviour. Several other parts of the hypothalamus showed consistent sex differences in size, but only this specific region showed differences that correlated with sexual preference.
The differences are almost identical to those identified by the neuroscientist Simon LeVay in his studies of the brains of gay men. His work has always been considered controversial, partly because the brains he studied were mostly from men who had died of AIDS. So it was not clear whether the differences were related to the disease or to sexual preferences.
Anybody can say people who hates gays are a low form of life, Big fing deal I care less that doesn't change that fact gays shouldn't be accepted into society.
two points - freedom of speech. he has the right to feel and say what he wants. i may not agree with him but i will die to defend his right to say it.
next. why do alot of men think that every gay guy would want them? i work with alot of gay men/women and none of the men have ever come on to me or any of the other straight guys/gals. i think thou doth protest to much.
Finally someone who has the guts to what they feel! I'm just sorry that he apologized so quickly. I don't accept gays either. Why are we always made to feel that we HAVE to accept something we don't believe in? Everyone is entitled to thier own opinions and beliefs. Gays should stop shoving thier homosexuality down our throats. Some of us don't like you, don't believe in it and are appalled by it. GET OVER IT and let the rest of us live normal heterosexual lives!
Homo - same
Phobia - fear
Homo + Phobia = fear of the same
A word created by those who are convinced that everyone is gay and to fear gay people is to fear one's own gayness.
He doesn't fear gays, he hates them. If anything he's afraid of getting their blood on him and catching AIDS.
I get along great with gay people as long as they keep their personal lives personal as I do with mine.
Mr. Hardaway (and any of his disgusting defenders),
May you be in a pick up basketball game where the man you need to guard on the last play tells you he is married to another man.
May you suffer a horrible accident in your car and need to rely on a gay doctor.
May your house catch on fire and a volunteer who is gay be the first to enter the building.
May your son or daughter tell you on your death bed that they have resented you their whole lives and are glad you will no longer be on the planet.
Peace, love and understand, Adam Zand
Quit searching for justification for your behavior and start correcting it. Why are you so afraid of a relationship with a woman? Let me guess, you and your Mama took a lot of baths together way past the time when you should have had the bathroom to yourself.....
'We are much further behind than I'd like,'' Amaechi said, according to the Herald. 'People in America and England would like to think racism is over, sexism is over, and homophobia is over, but it's not. My coming out will show that gay people don't all look like Jack from Will and Grace. Some of us are big, athletic men, and that should be OK.''
Amaechi also said he had not heard from a single former teammate or NBA player, but had been contacted by Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers. He also urged heterosexual players to support the cause.
'It's hard to get straight guys to step up,' he said. 'When men stood by women during the suffrage movement, they were called progressive and bold. When whites stood by blacks, they were heroes. But a straight guy standing up for a gay guy faces discrimination, and that's a big part of the battle we're fighting.'
from http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/6473866
I don't want to tell people how to think, but he has a point in people standing up against discrimination, gay marriage is a civil rights issue and people can hate all they want, I just think they should not try and legislate their hate with laws. And for those agruments who speak of the sanctity of marriage, call it something else, or get rid of the legal benefits of hetrosexual marriage( tax breaks, Health insurance)
>>Homosexuality is NOT like pedophilia.
Adam,
Excellent post...very well said.
Anyone who hates guys (particularly those in minorities themselves) should be
--Homosexuality is NOT like pedophilia.--
Wrong, both semantically or empirically. The genetic event that results in sexual preference, is only an amino bump away from the configuration creating a sexual preference for children. Unpopular truth for sure, but scientifically/biologically irrevocable. Start your reading with, 'The Double Helix' (by Crick and Watson) and continue from there. BTW, my writings here are not meant to reinforce hate towards any human. There are two types of homosexuals: genetically predetermined, and liberal heterophobes from the east and west coast... :-) sorry, couldn't help that one!
td
trad dadFeb,
Homosexuality is a sexual orientation whereby a person is attracted to the same sex.
Pedophilia is a condition where a person is sexuyally attracted to children.
Childrten versus adults. Get the difference? If you don't - that is scary.
Do you not have a sexual orientation? Do you think sex is dirty?
BTW - who rapes women? Heterosexual male do. Should we outlaw heterosexuality?
CN - I'm guessing you are gay.
Don't worry, hetersexuality will be outlawed pretty soon.
First Christianity and Conservitism will be outlawed but heterosexuality will be outlawed as well. Bisexuality will be tolerated but only as the only allowed outlet for closet heteros.
Pedophilia will be allowed as well I am sure. Part of the point the person you are arguing with was trying to make (I'm guessing) is that a vast number of child molesters go after the same sex.
Your day will come soon, don't fret your diversity celebrating little head.
Tolerance does not imply acceptance, acceptance does not imply encouragement, so why do those who do not encourage deviant behaviour get labeled as intolerant?
I tolerate gays but that's it. I don't hate them but I can understand why people do.
This man is as free to hate gays as those black kids I met last week are free to hate me because I'm white. Luckily I got to a well lit area quickly, they meant business. And no I don't hate black people, I do however hate niggers. Listen to Chris Rock and you'll know what I mean.
rolling my eyesFeb,
Yes I am gay. Try talking to a gay person before you stereotype everyone.
My day will come? No - my day is here right now. I live everyday to the fullest.
Enjoy your ignorance and hate. It may just eat you up.
You put people on the defense by lying about them and stereotyping them and you expect them not to respond?
Get real. Oh - and get a life.
CN are u serious?,
I am not even slightly romantically or sexually attracted to women.
Why are some people so freaked out by people who are different?
The thing that really gets me about some straight guys - the ones who dislike gays the most in our society - is the fact that they LOVE seeing two women sucking on each other.
I told a straight friend of mine a while back - I never want to hear a straight guy talk about badly about gays - friggin' hypocrites.
Insecurity, fear, hypocriscy = homophobe.
Great qualities you are protecting in yourselves guys! Keep up the good work!
CN - I personally have no problem with gay people, I have a couple gay friends. We get along because we keep our personal lives personal.
My previous comment refered to the organized 'Diversity' movement. The ones who want to teach kids in kindergarten that being gay is normal. Sorry but that is indoctrination no matter how you slice it. It may be normal for you but not for the majority. Let them find out for themselves as you did, no need to shove it down their throats.
Gay Marrige? Gays have every right to marry the opposite sex as I do (and did).
Intolerance? That duhhh guy hit that one on the head.
Seems to me the most intolerant ones out there are the ones people like me are supposidly intolerant of. (sorry to end a sentence with a preposition)
CN - 'Insecurity, fear, hypocriscy = homophobe.'?
no no no no no!
'wordsmithFeb 15th, 2007 - 17:49:47
Homo - same
Phobia - fear
Homo + Phobia = fear of the same
A word created by those who are convinced that everyone is gay and to fear gay people is to fear one's own gayness.'
Ther is no law that anyone has to like 'gays,' democrats, republicans, schoolteachers or fried clams. Right on Tim for speaking your truth.
Oh but there will be....
Hey Tim do you like being called a Ni--er? Well you sure do act like ONE! Grow up and get educated, people make the whole world go round, and at this point I wanna stop it and push you off of it!
rolling my eyesFeb,
There will be???
Is this your religious belief?
The same religion that supported and justified slavery, bans on interracial marriage, discrimmination against Jews, wars, and murder?
Oh I see. Good luck with that.
PS
I live in a Democracy NOT in a Theocracy - why don't you move to Iran where religious leaders run things.
This is still a FREE country. If we are going to preach tolerance than folks need to be tolerant of the intolerant. If TH hates fags that is his choice and he is ALLOWED to. So all you gays just need to get over it and understand that not everyone is going to except you or your nasty lifestyle. What next you gonna want people to except child molesters and those who have sex with animals, I bet the animal rights folks would pitch a fit. Its nice to see someone be HONEST about what they think and feel, to bad you Hetrophobic's cant handle it. Way to go Tim.
Proud homophobic.
CN - fyi I'm an atheist, I gave up imaginary friends when I was 5.
Proud to be a homophobic,
38% of all heterosexual males engage in anal intercourse with women according to a recent study.
Heterosexual males are the people that rape women and molest little girls.
Gay people are humans not animals.
Tolerance of the KKK and the radical relgious right that bashes gays is not 'diversity'.
Evil is evil - and the KKK and radical religious right wingers that bash gays [and used to bash blacks and hispanics - in fact they still do sometimes].
By preaching tolerance of those who are intolerant you turn the whoile concept upside down and tolerance loses all meaning.
Just because gay people push back against people that lie and demonize them does not make them intolerant - its called self-respect.
'there will be' meant that when the Militia Etheridge crowd has their way it WILL be a crime to think certian ways.
To hate gays is not and never should be a crime, to assault someone simply because they are gay already is a crime (and last I checked MORE of a crime than assaulting a hetersexual because of hate crime laws).
He is just another guy, i mean, he is Not God!! Who cares about his opinion? You know? i'm 16 years old and i'm gay!! and you know what i think about Tim's comment? i think he and his comment suck!! and if he says he hates gay people, then i say i hat homophobic people!! and i think homophobic people is people who really needs to get a life and stop worring about other people's lives!! Tim: GET A LIFE!!
like gays is not a phobia. It's called freedom to feel OK about not liking gays.
rolling my eyes,
Of course not - I agree - it should never be a crime to hate anyone - nor will it ever be one. It can a crime or at least illegal to discrimminate against people - based on their religion, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc.
The religious right wingers like anti-discrimmination laws when it comes to them and their religious beliefs. They have those laws in place on the federal level - gays don't. So a person's belief system [religion] is protected - not to mention tax exempt status - but a person is not protected based on their biology [gay].
Here is a warning - the religious right wing organizations claim that thought control is next because there are laws protecting gays. Nothing could be further from the truth.
If anything the religious right wing has imposed thought control on other members of society.
The religious right wing organizations use the gay issue to rally their members, obtain donations from them, and increase membership and power.
WTF people!
Homosexual is homo(same) + sexual(duh) = sex with the same.
Homophobic is homo(same) + phobic(fear) = fear of the same.
Homophobic DOES NOT MEAN FEARING GAY PEOPLE!
Whoever came up with the word needs to relearn the English language, same with all who use the word!
The bottom line is the radical religious right organizations in the US try to divide people and spread hate.
They can not use blacks anymore to spread hate and fear so they use gays.
It rallies their base, increases membership, and gives them more power and clout.
We all need to get along and respect one another. We are all Americans - do not let religious right wingers divide our Country.
Take a stand.
I just love the arrogance of some of the so-called 'straight' male posters who take all of this issue with the idea of showering in the presence of a gay man. The underlying assumption is that EVERY gay man on the planet would find YOU attractive. Believe me when I tell you that gay men absolutley, positively do not get turned on by every 'guy' they see, be they nude or not. That's ego talking to patently assume that one would be the object of lust for an entire group of people by default. With the millions of handsome gay men on the planet, why on earth would one assume that any gay man would be preoccupied with being intimate with a homophobic, narrow-minded straight man? It just makes no sense to me at all and calls to mind the line from Hamlet, 'Methinks thou doth protest too much...'
CN - Sounds to me like the one with the chip on his shoulder is you. Take a stand? I'm taking a stand against teaching my 5yr old stepson that Adam and Steve is fine and dandy. Sorry but I want him to make up his own mind like my 18yr old gay stepson did.
Equal rights? You have the same rights that I do! I can be fired by a gay boss for being straight, I was refused employment once because I applied to a shop where everyone was gay! Should I have been able to sue? If you were there wouldn't you have been glad I wasn't hired?
Sorry but Gay Rights are special rights because they would give special consideration to your sexuality that would not be given to mine.
rolling my eyesFeb,
Yes - you should have had the right to sue. Why should you be denied a job because you are heterosexual?
You are correct - sexual orientation discrimmination applies to both straight and gay people. It just so happens that gay people are the ones discrimminated against much more because of their sexual orientation - its called being a minority.
As far as kids go - like I said I don't think sex should be part of kid's education.
However, sexual orientation is detemined in the Mother's womb during pregnancy - so how can someone 'make' someone eles gay???
You either respect scientific facts or you don't. You don't or you are just ignorant of those facts. This is not politics - its science.
Do I have a chip on my shoulder? I don't know - but I do know I am sick of misinformation, sterotypes, and lies.
If 'gayness' is biological and they don't reproduce why are there so many of them?
Probably because they tried to be straight and start families under pressure from society.
Maybe society's growing acceptance (compared to 20 years ago) is a good thing. Let them be gay and leave women alone, maybe we'll weed out the gay gene.
I was gonna keep my mouth shut but at this point... why?
I had rough sex with Tim Hardaway behind a sports bar,
approximately 3 weeks after his final game.
He was a very angry man then too.
He seemed very jealous.
I think it was because he felt that he wasn't free to be himself and I was?
hater - problem with that is that study on rams, 8% or so are gay and don't mate with females yet the gene gets passed along.
What the hell does loving another human being that happens to be of the same gender do to cause so much hatred? Absolutely nothing. Direct it toward people who hurt others, not someone who probably wouldn't care to sleep with you bunch of ignorent homophobes. Go read a book or try ANYTHING to raise your level of awareness about the world around you. Ask the clerk for a B-O-O-K. Morons...
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