Gays in the NFL. How Do You Really Feel?

SmootSmack · 01-30-2013, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by 44ever

I wont get into the specifics on here out of respect for the Warpath but the quotations obviously state my opinion on the matter.

Well I had relied to your post before you added "NOT"

SmootSmack · 01-30-2013, 10:34 PM

Historically speaking I don't think any team has had more gay players than the Redskins

DynamiteRave · 01-30-2013, 10:45 PM

Ok.

You know what makes me sick, the fact that people dehumanize and emasculate men solely because of who they go to bed with at night or who they love. Its none of your business, nor is it mine, its theirs. You know when it does become my business? When stupid people think that the fall of country is due to someone's sexual orientation. My ass. The fall of the country is due to crazy coots thinking that whoever someone loves has any f'ing bearing on anything other than that person's own life.

This country would be a hell of a lot better if people started worrying more about themselves and less about who Joe Schmo is marrying and how that impacts their life. Because it doesn't.

And before anyone calls me out on saying, "Well everyone's entitled to how they feel". Great. They do. Just like I have no problems coming to the defense of my LGBTQ brethren, as I would if someone thought of blacks as threatening the sanctity of America.

Because there was a point of time that we were.

I might end up getting this thread closed because I'm a loud mouthed, bisexual, black woman but you know what. I don't care.

*drops mic. walks off*

skinsfaninok · 01-30-2013, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Historically speaking I don't think any team has had more gay players than the Redskins

I always knew cooley was gay!!

Serious note I think this thread may be going south. Seems like it's getting too personal

DynamiteRave · 01-30-2013, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by 44ever

Believe me us strait men don't worry about it or care what you all do among yourselves. But why the need for the coming out announcements and the gay parades ect... If your just gay then just be gay and stop advertising. We don't...

And by you I don't mean you personally just in general.

* snapping my finger in a zig zag motion...*

I figure its just a way of embracing who you are. I've been to Irishfest two years now over in Wisconsin. They also have German fest over there. There's Greekfest in some cities. There's the black family reunion in DC every year. I think Latinos have something here as well.

It's not meant to be an advertisement as much as a call for the community to come together.

No one should have to live their life in the closet. Straight, gay, black, white or otherwise.

I can respect the people who think its wrong, amoral or what have you because no ones personal values are the same as anyone elses and they shouldn't be. But to embrace hate and discrimination...?

It makes me sad.

SFREDSKIN · 01-30-2013, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Historically speaking I don't think any team has had more gay players than the Redskins

Dave Kopay

Jerry Smith

Wade Davis

12thMan · 01-30-2013, 11:18 PM

Stephen Davis? No.

Hog1 · 01-30-2013, 11:34 PM

HOLY CRAP.....Jerry Smith, Gay???
What next....Billy Kilmer?

Well......Jerry did have that long blond hair he used to..........

SFREDSKIN · 01-30-2013, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Hog1

HOLY CRAP.....Jerry Smith, Gay???
What next....Billy Kilmer?

Well......Jerry did have that long blond hair he used to..........

Pete Rose hair bangs.

The Goat · 01-30-2013, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

"Hate Speech"? Sorry, didn't realize the thought police were on the patrol.

You, and most of the US adult population, disagree with what he said - but, he is free to say it. You, in turn, are free to call him an ass. To him, or others, however, calling folks with a different viewpoint from yours "an effing insensitive discriminatory idiot" might also qualify as "Hate Speech".

Free speech is free speech and with it you are, in general, free to use hateful speech, unkind speech, vulgar speech, pretty speech, politically correct speech or any of plethora of adjectives you wish to put in front of "speech".

Sorry, the misuse, abuse and misunderstanding of the term "free speech" is a big pet peeve of mine. It is too important a concept to so cavalierly compartmentalized.

Question for the forum lawyer, and I'm not referring to the 49er player here. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is often referenced as a limitation on free speech, but what about language that incites violence against a person or group? Can that form of speech be muzzled so to speak?

DynamiteRave · 01-31-2013, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by The Goat

Question for the forum lawyer, and I'm not referring to the 49er player here. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is often referenced as a limitation on free speech, but what about language that incites violence against a person or group? Can that form of speech be muzzled so to speak?

Isn't yelling fire in a theater only limited because it endangers the people around them? O_o

JoeRedskin · 01-31-2013, 12:12 AM

The seminal case on free speech and its limitations is Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942):

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There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting words" those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.

(emphasis mine)

Fighting words are not simply words that are "offensive". Further, you can't target specific "fighting words" based on some types of content but not others. In R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992), St. Paul passed a statute that said:

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Whoever places on public or private property, a symbol, object, appellation, characterization or graffiti, including, but not limited to, a burning cross or Nazi swastika, which one knows or has reasonable grounds to know arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender commits disorderly conduct and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

The Supreme Court struck it down saying:

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Although the phrase in the ordinance, "arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others," has been limited by the Minnesota Supreme Court's construction to reach only those symbols or displays that amount to "fighting words," the remaining, unmodified terms make clear that the ordinance applies only to "fighting words" that insult, or provoke violence, "on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender." Displays containing abusive invective, no matter how vicious or severe, are permissible unless they are addressed to one of the specified disfavored topics. Those who wish to use "fighting words" in connection with other ideas — to express hostility, for example, on the basis of political affiliation, union membership, or homosexuality — are not covered. The First Amendment does not permit St. Paul to impose special prohibitions on those speakers who express views on disfavored subjects.

hooskins · 01-31-2013, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by 44ever

Believe me us strait men don't worry about it or care what you all do among yourselves. But why the need for the coming out announcements and the gay parades ect... If your just gay then just be gay and stop advertising. We don't...

And by you I don't mean you personally just in general.

* snapping my finger in a zig zag motion...*

Dont speak for me. I am a straight man and I completely disagree with you.

And being straight IS advertised constantly. You are either blind or brainwashed into thinking its not. Gf ans bf from day one. All shows all teaching curriculum all everything advertises being straight you just dont see it.

This is literally the samw argument used by whites against blacks during the civil rights movement and even now.

hooskins · 01-31-2013, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

Dave Kopay

Jerry Smith

Wade Davis

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Originally Posted by 12thMan

Stephen Davis? No.

Why does it matter?

CultBrennan59 · 01-31-2013, 02:11 AM

Holy Crap. This thread started off as a kid lighting off a firecracker, and turned into a national forest being burnt down. Damn.

Well first, I honestly don't care about the whole gay rights talk. Not saying I don't like gays, saying that I don't care one way or another if gays can get married or whatever. It doesn't affect me nor my immediate family.

Second, I'm glad this topic came up, I was thinking about making a similar thread when the Te'o story came up. Lets just play the what if game here. So assuming Te'o is gay(and he becomes the first known NFL gay player), how could you see him in an NFL locker room with 52+ other guys getting showered and dressed etc. I would find it pretty hard to believe that a guy like Terrell Suggs or Ed Reed or Pollard for this case would be ok with a guy in the locker room. Those are some guys that I think would be yelling at him for looking their way and telling coaches and GMs "Why is this gay guy on our team?" So right there, he could be a different kind of locker room distraction. Add to that the amount of crap that the gay player would receive when he makes a tackle below the waste and above the knees with players from the other team making fun of that player. Then look at it in the fans perspective of fans of that team getting crap from fans from other teams saying negative derogatory comments about your gay player. Sure there are some players in the league who are fine with gays and gay marriage (and some that are secretly gay), but just know that the negative voices are heard loudest.

Third, I understand completely what Culliver was trying to say, but he worded it wrong, now getting himself into trouble, by putting his team in a negative spot light (especially with his own citys community) right before the super bowl.

Fourth, Smoot, I've always wanted to know if you knew some gay rumored NFL players (even past--like someone said Strahan the other day; I've heard about Ovie Mughelli and I personally thought that Shaun Alexander, Jeff Garcia and John Runyan were gay) You just mentioned that we have had the most gay people on our team. Who would that be?

01-30-2013, 10:34 PM	#47
SmootSmack The Bluths Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 43,225	Re: Gays in the NFL. How Do You Really Feel? Historically speaking I don't think any team has had more gay players than the Redskins __________________ You're So Vain...You Probably Think This Sig Is About You

01-30-2013, 10:45 PM	#48
DynamiteRave Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Washington DC Age: 26 Posts: 9,868	Re: Gays in the NFL. How Do You Really Feel? Ok. You know what makes me sick, the fact that people dehumanize and emasculate men solely because of who they go to bed with at night or who they love. Its none of your business, nor is it mine, its theirs. You know when it does become my business? When stupid people think that the fall of country is due to someone's sexual orientation. My ass. The fall of the country is due to crazy coots thinking that whoever someone loves has any f'ing bearing on anything other than that person's own life. This country would be a hell of a lot better if people started worrying more about themselves and less about who Joe Schmo is marrying and how that impacts their life. Because it doesn't. And before anyone calls me out on saying, "Well everyone's entitled to how they feel". Great. They do. Just like I have no problems coming to the defense of my LGBTQ brethren, as I would if someone thought of blacks as threatening the sanctity of America. Because there was a point of time that we were. I might end up getting this thread closed because I'm a loud mouthed, bisexual, black woman but you know what. I don't care. drops mic. walks off __________________ Establishment, establishment, you always know what's best. I'm a chick, damnit.

01-30-2013, 11:18 PM	#52
12thMan MVP Join Date: May 2005 Location: washington, D.C. Posts: 11,366	Re: Gays in the NFL. How Do You Really Feel? Stephen Davis? No.

01-30-2013, 11:34 PM	#53
Hog1 Quietly Dominating the East Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Naples, Florida Posts: 8,414	Re: Gays in the NFL. How Do You Really Feel? HOLY CRAP.....Jerry Smith, Gay??? What next....Billy Kilmer? Well......Jerry did have that long blond hair he used to.......... __________________ Goodbye Sean..........Vaya Con Dios thankyou Joe....... Win! Always win! By fair means or foul, by soft words and hard deeds... by treachery, by cunning, by malpractice... but always win--Edward Teach

01-31-2013, 02:11 AM	#60
CultBrennan59 Pro Bowl Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 5,727	Re: Gays in the NFL. How Do You Really Feel? Holy Crap. This thread started off as a kid lighting off a firecracker, and turned into a national forest being burnt down. Damn. Well first, I honestly don't care about the whole gay rights talk. Not saying I don't like gays, saying that I don't care one way or another if gays can get married or whatever. It doesn't affect me nor my immediate family. Second, I'm glad this topic came up, I was thinking about making a similar thread when the Te'o story came up. Lets just play the what if game here. So assuming Te'o is gay(and he becomes the first known NFL gay player), how could you see him in an NFL locker room with 52+ other guys getting showered and dressed etc. I would find it pretty hard to believe that a guy like Terrell Suggs or Ed Reed or Pollard for this case would be ok with a guy in the locker room. Those are some guys that I think would be yelling at him for looking their way and telling coaches and GMs "Why is this gay guy on our team?" So right there, he could be a different kind of locker room distraction. Add to that the amount of crap that the gay player would receive when he makes a tackle below the waste and above the knees with players from the other team making fun of that player. Then look at it in the fans perspective of fans of that team getting crap from fans from other teams saying negative derogatory comments about your gay player. Sure there are some players in the league who are fine with gays and gay marriage (and some that are secretly gay), but just know that the negative voices are heard loudest. Third, I understand completely what Culliver was trying to say, but he worded it wrong, now getting himself into trouble, by putting his team in a negative spot light (especially with his own citys community) right before the super bowl. Fourth, Smoot, I've always wanted to know if you knew some gay rumored NFL players (even past--like someone said Strahan the other day; I've heard about Ovie Mughelli and I personally thought that Shaun Alexander, Jeff Garcia and John Runyan were gay) You just mentioned that we have had the most gay people on our team. Who would that be? __________________ "Anyones better than Madieu Williams"

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