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Equally important, however, is how GLBT are treated under the law. There are many places in the world were "acts of homosexuality" are still illegal. Nobody is campaigning that vegetarians should not be allowed to marry, or that vegetarians should not be allowed to adopt children because they will make their kids vegetarian (even though there's probably a stronger correlation between vegetarian kids and parents than gay kids and parents).
Secondly, although I don't self-identify as a christian, I think it is very problematic for someone who does self-identify as christian to pronounce a blanket statement basically saying you can't be gay and a christian, and their are hundreds of thousands of gay christians who would disagree with him, and be (rightfully) offended by his statement. It isn't his opinion that being gay isn't in line with his interpretation of the bible that bothers me (although that view is problematic since what is and is not cool has been cherry-picked throughout history), it's that he presumes to pronounce judgement upon another human being and their personal relationship with jesus. If I was jesus, I'd be like, "Who does this schmuck think he is? Nobody tells jesus how to love gay men, because jesus' loves everybody!" My main issue with his statement is not that it's anti-gay (which it definitely is), but that it is anti-christian, which for a self-proclaimed christian, and a member of the media, is VERY problematic.
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For the record I do feel the need to point out that gender and sex are NOT the same (Sex is biological, Gender is a social construct).
Neither are dichotomous either/or identifications and occur along a spectrum. If we only allow two categories for human beings: man or woman, straight or gay, we unfairly (imo) marginalize those who don't fit into those classifications, so please don't forget about the bisexual/transgendered/transexul/two-spirited people when you discuss questions of sex and gender.
Props to Jason Collins for coming out. Although I think there will be teams that don't sign him because he's gay, there will be teams that sign him because he is. Both are not ideal, but it balances out in the short term, and hopefully, continues to put us on the path where gender is no longer a big deal in the long term.
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