Amaechi comes out of the closet to sell books and he's a hero. Hardaway says he wouldn't want to play on the same team with a homosexual and he's a villian. Go figure.

Hardaway has been banned from all-star events this weekend by NBA big wig Stern. That's the biggest problem I have with the situation.

I might not agree with Hardaway's comments or the way he voiced them, HOWEVER I do believe he has the right to say them. Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution. To allow any of his rights to denied because he exercised one of them is a disgrace.

If you want vilify, chastise, or snub Mr. Hardaway for his tirade, go ahead and exercise your right to do so. But never deny any American his rights. How easy would it be to turn the situation around against something you say?

Bad case of John Rocker fever?

Hardaway has been banned from all-star events this weekend by NBA big wig Stern. That's the biggest problem I have with the situation.

I might not agree with Hardaway's comments or the way he voiced them, HOWEVER I do believe he has the right to say them. Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution. To allow any of his rights to denied because he exercised one of them is a disgrace.

If you want vilify, chastise, or snub Mr. Hardaway for his tirade, go ahead and exercise your right to do so. But never deny any American his rights. How easy would it be to turn the situation around against something you say?

 

How naive can one be! Unless you are self-employed, try going public with the fact that you hate blacks, you think sex with kids is OK, you think women are less intelligent than men, etc and see how quickly your company chooses to deny your so-called American rights. Those rights do not exist in the way that you seem to think they do. You may want to re-read the Constitution that you cite.

We simply can not allow this man to speak his mind, ?

 

I've yet to read where anyone says that Hardaway had no right to say what he said.

Hey, at least he's being honest. Most folks who hate gay people just hide behind the Bible.

Wo!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/02/15/bc.bkn.hardawayremarks.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

'His words pollute the atmosphere'

Amaechi responds to Hardaway's anti-gay comments

 

David Stern stepped in.

 

"It is inappropriate for him to be representing us given the disparity between his views and ours," Stern said in a statement Thursday.

 

Hardaway's comments -- for which he later apologized -- came a week after John Amaechi became the first former NBA player to say he was gay.

 

"I don't need Tim's comments to realize there's a problem," Amaechi told The Associated Press in a phone interview. "People said that I should just shut up and go away -- now they have to rethink that."

I've yet to read where anyone says that Hardaway had no right to say what he said.

Pretty much everyone that's calling him a moron, homophobe, etc, etc......

Just look at the two articles that CatchMeIfYouCan posted.

Pretty much everyone that's calling him a moron, homophobe, etc, etc......

Just look at the two articles that CatchMeIfYouCan posted.

 

Those are simply reactions to his right to speak his mind freely.

Hardaway has been banned from all-star events this weekend by NBA big wig Stern. That's the biggest problem I have with the situation.

I might not agree with Hardaway's comments or the way he voiced them, HOWEVER I do believe he has the right to say them. Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution. To allow any of his rights to denied because he exercised one of them is a disgrace.

If you want vilify, chastise, or snub Mr. Hardaway for his tirade, go ahead and exercise your right to do so. But never deny any American his rights. How easy would it be to turn the situation around against something you say?

As an American he has a "right" to be at All-Star weekend? An event held by a private Co. (NBA)? I don't think so.

I'm in the middle of my Westboro study with the Phelps as of right now, but like I always say "what does scripture say about sexual sin of the homosexual"? If one of us said what Tim said its not that big because we are not in the "Public eye", we would just get "worked over" in a smaller venue. I don't believe Tim was using scripture, he was just making a statement that should have been away form the TV. God "hates" the sin, but Loves the sinner. Now back to my work of trying to get the Westboro Church to repent.

I'm in the middle of my Westboro study with the Phelps as of right now... Now back to my work of trying to get the Westboro Church to repent.

The deprogrammers have been put on alert, just in case.

^^^Know what you mean, Momma just walks in, shakes her head, turns and walks away, saying "you are wasteing your time". I'm trying to explain the "Wrath of God In the OT, compared to the ways of the NT".

I've yet to read where anyone says that Hardaway had no right to say what he said.

Think real hard about it. Do you really believe that with being banned from all-star events, all the names he's being called and so forth that people really think he had the right to say what he felt?

How naive can one be! Unless you are self-employed, try going public with the fact that you hate blacks, you think sex with kids is OK, you think women are less intelligent than men, etc and see how quickly your company chooses to deny your so-called American rights. Those rights do not exist in the way that you seem to think they do. You may want to re-read the Constitution that you cite.

 

I live, breath, and eat the constitution, every article and subparagraph. I also believe it means what it says.

I would be "naive" to believe that everyone is fair minded enough to show consideration for the rights of others. In fact, all most care about is their own rights, so excuse me when I still think it's okay to want to live by the constitution.

And PLEASE show me where these rights I speak of don't exist in the constitution.