"You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known," Hardaway said. "I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States."
..."First of all, I wouldn't want him on my team.
"And second of all, if he was on my team, I would, you know, really distance myself from him because, uh, I don't think that's right. And you know I don't think he should be in the locker room while we're in the locker room. I wouldn't even be a part of that," he said.
Okay, probably a mistake to say "I hate gay people." I don't see Tim Hardaway as somebody who cruises around town trying to run down gay people with his car, but still, that's not a quote you want to be saddled with. But wow, how refreshing to hear someone give an actual opinion that hasn't been sanitized by the relentless politically correct inquisition in this country.
Self-outed former NBA player John Amaechi agrees with me:
"Finally, someone who is honest. It is ridiculous, absurb [sic, or maybe he just has a cold], petty, bigoted and shows a lack of empathy that is gargantuan and unfathomable. But it is honest. And it illustrates the problem better than any of the fuzzy language other people have used so far."
Hey, somebody got a Word-A-Day calendar for Christmas. Way to go, Thoreau.
Somebody explain this to me: If it's natural to be homosexual, as all the tolerant talking heads claim, why is it not just as natural for heterosexuals to be repelled by the thought of homosexuality? It seems like that would be part of the natural evolutionary process, doesn't it? We need reproductive sex for the species to survive. Those most likely to reproduce would be the ones with a strong attraction to reproductive sex (and thereby willing to go through all the trouble, pain, flower buying, and poem writing required to get it) and a strong aversion to non-reproductive sex (so as not to waste valuable time and energy that could be used making babies). So, a heterosexual's instinctive response to homosexuality would naturally be, "Yuck." And if you say that natural response can be "educated" out of a person, well, can natural homosexuality be educated out too?
My own opinions about sexuality have a lot to do with far-out concepts like "God" and "holiness," so we won't get into all that here. My point right now is: if you think that John Amaechi is how God made him, then so is Tim Hardaway.
Update: This is such common sense I can't believe someone has to write it, but thank goodness Michael Medved has taken up the mantle as well:
Making gay males unwelcome in the intimate circumstances of an NBA team makes just as much sense as making straight males unwelcome in the showers for a women’s team at the WNBA. Most female athletes would prefer not to shower together with men not because they hate males (though some of them no doubt do), but because they hope to avoid the tension, distraction and complication that prove inevitable when issues of sexual attraction (and even arousal) intrude into the arena of competitive sports.
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