ESPN’s Chris Broussard sparks uproar with Jason Collins remarks


My Comment:  Finally someone who is not afraid to make a stand for Christian Conservative values.  Something is wrong when we celebrate sexual immorality and abortion, and even the president and first lady congratulate this behavior and invoke blessings for these behaviors.

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Jason Collins, the first active player in a major sports league to come out as gay, has attracted critics, including ESPN's Chris Broussard.

Chris Broussard usually offers expertise on fast breaks and zone defense, but on Monday he drove right into America’s culture wars by calling homosexuality “an open rebellion to God” and implying that gay people can’t be Christians.

Speaking on ESPN‘s “Outside the Lines,” the basketball analyst and former New York Times writer was discussingNBA player Jason Collins, who in a landmark move just became the first active player in one of the major pro sports to come out as gay. Collins revealed his sexual orientation in a first-person Sports Illustrated story.

“I’m a Christian. I don’t agree with homosexuality,” Broussard said. “I think it’s a sin, as I think all sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman is.

“If you’re openly living in unrepentant sin … that’s walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ,” he added.

He also expressed some irritation that those who disapprove of homosexuality are, he says, labeled as intolerant and bigoted.

Broussard was not saying anything he had not said publicly before; in a 2009 blog post, he called homosexuality a sin after saying he nevertheless believed the NBA was ready for an openly gay player.

But with the far-reaching platform of ESPN — a top-rated network owned by Walt Disney Co. — Broussard took on a polarized subject at the top of a news cycle. So his comments exploded across social media.

Liberals and gay-rights proponents took Broussard to task. Kelly Dwyer of Yahoo! Sports wrote: “Gay young men and women have an impossibly tough time growing up and attempting to fit in, even as our culture shifts to become a more tolerant society. The last thing they need is to see someone like Chris Broussard, who ESPN (and by extension, the NBA) trusts as its voice both at games and in-studio, to be referring to them as sinners who are in ‘open rebellion to God.’ ”

But many conservatives banded with Broussard as the reaction came in. Commentator Michelle Malkin tweeted that Broussard’s critics were part of a “Tolerance Mob.”



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  1. it’s not just about immorality when it comes to gay people,it’s also about immorality of heterosexuals.If they really want to make gays feel accepted,why do they ban counseling for gays? Maybe it’s they’re afraid that it’s more to it than just being “born this way”.

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