you know not all reaction to jason collins is announcement was positive
there was a lot of negative as well bob viously online comments posts
face book blog-post all that stuff and i'm gonna give you two specific examples
one is that yes p_m_ basketball analyst chris broussard
who'd want honor on on a little bit of a mini rant saying you know the bible
calls homosexuality a sin and uh... this is a send that's the reality of the
situation it is like many other sends of course we've heard this before
this is on e_s_p_n_ tickle tickle listen to this
personally i don't believe that you can live
and openly homosexual lifestyle or and openly prereq like premarital sex but we
have a sexual
if they're all coming
living that type of livestock
then the bible says you know the body of fruits
if there's a you know that
right if you're openly living in unrepentant stamp whatever it may be not
just homosexuality adultery
fornication premarital sex between heterosexual whatever it may be
arbor reinvest walking over rebellion
sadat answer jesus christ so out would not characterize their parts of the
christian cannot all think the bible with characterizing the chris
interestingly enough also anybody who commits violence who happens to be
christian
they're also not true christians as we've seen many many times lewis now in
the reserved a statement that was released
uh... with the deliver number statement taken after the soaking number one is
that broussard himself put out a statement saying listen i was offering
my personal opinion
as it relates to christianity
those beliefs don't impact and they will have not they have never impacted my
ability to report on the n_b_a_
then that yes p n basically dismissed the comments as a distraction if yes the
s_p_ ended in the n_b_a_ did not comment on these comments
saying we regret
that are respectful discussion of personal viewpoints became a distraction
from today's news
yes pianist fully committed to diver sity and welcomes jason collins is and
alan smith
now i have to say
i don't believe that there was anything respectful about broussard contributions
the discussion right any his anti-gay views where the opposite of a
distraction timmy timmy
how people respond to a gay player is at the heart of this announcement and i
don't consider his comment a distraction i consider the fact that this was his
reaction
yeah it's it's important i mean arm on the scale of uh...
insulting and disrespect for i would say this spring mild
uh... i wouldn't say that uh... this is even in the same ballpark is uh... some
of the people we interview on the show will okay he's not saying gay people
should be put to death is not saying you shouldn't be allowed to be on the team
he's nothing personally his people that would be a
he's kind of doing here in the justice department has been so you know i needed
to send you see what he's doing the thing which is cowardly in one way which
is to stand behind
a so-called sacred text and it's a lesson
it's not my view it's just with the bible says and i think that that's
pretty pathetic well it's one of two things that it's cowardly or it's just
stupid slash ignorant right now we don't know which one i mean i'm neither of
those is a good thing but to one of the other
so then brian fisher who we know is antagonistic guest on this show says you
know you really shouldn't sign jason constantine
he's gonna eyeball your teammates in the shower and that would not be good here's
brian fast and put them into a final four
he has come out
to the they and said he's gay
and this is an
for sellers trade he's the first
professional athlete currently playing to brew was who came out while his
career
was still in progress some of come out after they careers are over
and the question on the the heading of the s i dot com pieces why in the senate
jason collins is coming out now answers easy
it's the end of the season
season's over
looked around you and they've got an entire offseason
to figure out what they are going to do
about this next year
now are
i will guarantee you if they ownership of whatever team is thinking about
bringing him back work thinking about praying for him
and they go to the players on that team and they see how do you feel about an
haupt
activa homosexual being in the same locker room sharing the same shower
facilities reviewers in no way i don't want that i do not want some guy i've
teammate eyeballing me in the shower and my wife does not want that
did the white i'm sure is really really worry about it i would i would love to
meet the wives of players who are really worry about that
if they fit this diffuse wipe is worried about that
for him
there's something else radiation if players wives are worried about them
being around a gay guy it there probably are having concerns about whether
they're in a real marriage with their husband or not dot are you a question
but this is such an absurd argument right because
along these lines
you shouldn't have
if you're if you're a man
you simply could not have if you have to have surgery done you should not have a
gate dr perform the surgery because listen
your yours buying their you know you're you're under anesthesia here in
conscious
and uh... who knows what that doctor might do i mean after all
he's attracted to men in his personal life and they would be no way he could
possibly separate that from the fact that he's doing a medical procedure
this is the height of assuming
people just aren't completely immature ever edit it it's it's the dumbest
argument i've heard that because he might be i've balling people you just
can't happen in the locker room lewis is risky
well i think a lot of what's going to the head of of homophobe is that somehow
homosexuals
are more deviant
than the average human being right
uh... they think that uh... because you're homosexual here prone to so many
other crazy statements of course i'm
that's that had a researcher's not that
susceptible to yet that's exactly what's going on in its pretty pathetic and
uh... i am i'm curious to see what happens now the thing is will he find a
teeny is a free agent now
willie find it seemed to play on and uh... there will probably be some p_r_
benefit to the team that does assign him and i think it'll be interesting to
follow the story but then again as more players come out this is going to become
less and less of a story and that's a good thing that so it should be right