Homosexuality in professional sports is a major topic right now with Jason Collins on the Brooklyn Nets and Michael Sam drafted by the St. Louis Rams. While they’ve received a lot of support, not everyone is okay with that lifestyle and former Warriors coach back to ESPN analyst Mark Jackson is reportedly one of the latter.
During a shoot-around on a road trip before Collins signed, reporters asked then-Golden State Warriors Head Coach Mark Jackson his opinion of several big men as possible additions. After someone joked about the signing of former Warriors assistant coach Brian Scalabrine to a 10-day contract, Collins’ name was brought up.
Jackson, according to a source close to the team, responded:
“Not in my locker room.”
In addition to his work with basketball, Jackson is also a pastor and holds strong to his Christian beliefs against homosexuality.
“I will say this. We live in a country that allows you to be whoever you want to be. As a Christian man, I serve a God that gives you free will to be who you want to be. As a Christian man, I have beliefs of what’s right and what’s wrong. That being said, I know Jason Collins, I know his family, and am certainly praying for them at this time.”
h/t SFBay
– Shaina Auxilly (@Shay_Marie)
14 Comments
I agree when did having a opinion about homos become so bad I believe they need there on homo island
Opinions are one thing, everyone has one, even about ignorant asses like you. When you cross the line and discriminate against people for simply being who they are, that’s another. To say I think all ignorant people like dmaccdasavage should go live on an dumb folks island, well that’s discrimination. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!
They’re not being who they are, they’re being who someone else of another gender is.
Homos are the same as a child molester if you ask me. And anyone who backs them up are under cover gays. Any man who thinks they are a woman is f**kn weird and a pervert deep in their mind. How can you say that gays are acceptable if you are not gay.
Remember the golden rule.
Jesus said love the person, not the sin.
He stated his opinion. That’s not discrimination. That’s the problem with today’s society and what the mainstream media like ESPN. If you come out and disagree with homosexuality, you are labeled a homophobe, bigot and gay basher
That’s the problem with today’s mainstream media. If you don’t agree with homosexuality, you are labeled a bigot, gay basher or homophobe.
Gay people don’t get with child you ignorant and you are too
That fa**ot lifestyle shit is a pure mental disorder being nurtured and spread mostly by Ashkenazi Jews…that is why homosexual lifestyle and Jews go hand-in-hand. The faggot males need their own homo island and the faggot females need to their own homo island and problem with normal society will be solved.
He is a christian he shouldnt beleive in homosexuality nothing wrong with beliveing either way but stop getting mad when we dont support it. Its not hating its believing something and no one should say that we have to change how we think.
F**k that bible doesnt condone it si save that nasty s**t diggin for your private life and stop trying to cram yo freak s**t err where We dont have to deal or put up with it if we as free Americans DONT FU**IN WANT TO NASTY SH**TY ASSES MF’S
OK.. so people rally against Donald Sterling and Howard Stern for being racist, but no one speaks up about this bigotry going on with Mark and the comments?
Amazing.. I shouldn’t be surprised since humans are hardwired to hold double-standards, but actually seeing it when it’s clear as day that gay-bashing is just as bad as racism.. wow. I hope I never have to work with people that support this increasingly intolerant world.
It’s a belief and that’s fine but there’s no difference between this kind of discrimination and the kind Donald Sterling possessed when he said he didn’t want blacks at his games. Being someone who knows a little about Christianity and religious beliefs, I know that straight premarital sex is also against Mark Jacksons beliefs but I guarantee you he isn’t saying, ‘Not in my locker room’ to those players. The precedent was set with how they handled Donald Sterling and he deserved to be fired.