If you’re looking for brave public stands in the sports world, forget Jason Collins and look to Chris Broussard, who took the radical, heroic, borderline-insane step of plainly stating the Biblical position on human sexuality:
So, naturally, Chris Broussard must be destroyed. Online reaction to his statement was swift and vehement, with some going so far as to say that Broussard’s opinion shouldn’t count as Constitutionally-protected speech.
I, for one, am now an enormous Chris Broussard fan and would start watching his coverage of the NBA if only I wasn’t completely indifferent about the NBA.
For the most incisive comment on the incident, let us look once again to the wisdom of Christian rapper Lecrae:
So you ask @chris_broussard for his thoughts and you’re attacking him cause you disagree with them? And he’s the intolerant one?
— Lecrae (@lecrae) April 29, 2013
Bravo to Broussard for saying what he believes even if it could cost him a lot in his professional life. I’ve always thought this tolerance movement seemed one-sided – certain lifestyles are to be tolerated, but others condemned. Actually, I think tolerance is the wrong word. It sounds like Broussard is tolerating the gay lifestyle, but not accepting it. Isn’t there a difference?
Yes, the whole “tolerance” thing is definitely a one-way street. In any discussion of homosexuality nowadays, what “tolerance” means is, “Christians, shut up.”