ESPN Fires Curt Schilling after Facebook Post

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years ago to Culture
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I wonder what Ayn Rand/John Galt would think about this silliness.


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  • Posted by Lindsey75 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Gay behavior is nothing new for sure! It has been going on for thousands of years. It was not right then and it still isn't. And yes, it is a learned behavior!
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  • Posted by Lindsey75 9 years ago
    Men are men and women are women. It is as simple as that! Too somehow try to mentally change yourself and then physically change yourself is not right!
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    We noticed...laughing...hey, we're having a conversation are we not!...No harm done...see?

    Couldn't resist...
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I am weird and will not be quiet about it. If you want to stop weirdos, skip the intermediary of "society", and bring guns.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Not at all...just mind your, (their) P's and Q's, understand your weird and respect others. We mean you know harm, we will help if your in trouble. Just don't push it in our faces or try to change society. It creates disorder on many levels, disorder creates chaos.
    Like we said in the old days..."get a room", keep it to yourself and everything will be fine. Today we might respond: TMI...
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    On a serious note, it seems you and I see liberty completely opposite from each other. It seems like you're saying we should divide people into groups and then the majority group can harass the minority group unless that particular minority is mentioned in the Constitution.

    By this logic, it seems like we could pass laws that try to make rural people live like urban people because urbanites are the majority and there's nothing in the Constitution about protecting rural people. The politician tells the urbanites we all know rubes are the source of our problems, so we're going to ban tractor-pulls and encourage rural people to attend the opera or ballet where they feel uncomfortable. While they're uncomfortable, the urbanites can taunt them, "Who's the pansy now, rube? I made you do something uncomfortable for you. ha ha." This is a disgusting spirit.

    We'll never see eye to eye, if I understand what you're saying right, because we're starting from different places. I believe individual rights, without regard to group membership, trump the will of the majority.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 9 years ago
    "ESPN has fired baseball star Curt Schilling after he shared a post on Facebook that mocked the North Carolina law banning transgender individuals from using a bathroom different from their biological sex. "

    Huh??!!! I think the guy writing the story may need to go back to Journalism class....or maybe English. The above quote suggests that Mr. Schilling disagreed with the NC state law, but his comments [and ESPS's over the top actions] suggest he was in support of it. A little clarity may be in order here.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    demonacracy is rule by minority...suposed to be opposite but guess What!, our rights are already in the Constitution....nothing about trans rights there...oh well...win some, loose some.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    " denying the information every cell in their body has"
    I actually have no idea on the science, but I'm content to focus on my own cells and body and respect others' rights to be let alone.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Guys...those that claim to be gay represent .3% of the population. Transgenders, I just learned, represents .08% of the population...................
    THIS IS MOB RULE...rule by the MINORITY!
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    My take is that because they are denying what they are genetically, denying the information every cell in their body has...are likely, not being honest with themselves, nevermind everyone else and are likely to be dishonest in life altogether.
    I'm not talking about someone born with both sets of genitals and the doc and parents made the wrong decision.
    Remember, the vast majority have been buggered when they were kids and circumstances have made them either rebel or decide that this behavior is ok.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey...I can't argue with that. And, yes - becoming a parent changes a person. Before I had mine a good friend of mine talked to me about it. He said that when you see that baby enter the world and you hold that baby you are a changed person, never to be the same as you were before. He was right.

    That's my own personal line in the sand - the safety of children. A person would probably be safer smacking a grizzly cub in front of its mama than if they harmed a child in front of me...The mama grizzly probably won't go so far as to eat the perp's liver...
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Once I had kids I suddenly started feeling protective toward all kids. It sounds cliche, but it surprised me.

    I do not think the people focused on bathroom patrol are purposely promoting child abuse, and I doubt forcing people into a bathroom for a gender they don't identify with is going to cause them to abuse children. Child abusers have other issues. I think the bathroom-focused people are just lowlifes, and one of their ways of feeling better about themselves is to try to make them use a bathroom they feel uncomfortable in. I stand up to them categorically, but not because I buy the notion they're fighting a war against parents. That's aggrandizing them. They're just jerks.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    There is a war against parents being fought by the left.

    If I see a guy follow my little daughter into the bathroom I'm pulling him out by his ear.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years ago
    If you look at the "outrage" over all this you must, like me, be thinking, "WTH?!" Read the words of that article again and the objective conclusion is that people are angry about a guy saying "men are men". I am convinced there's some sort of heavy blanket of stupidity that's being foisted upon the nation. It includes a complete mangling of our language.

    I joke that if I could have showered in the girls' locker room after every football practice when I was in school you know I'd have been there every night. Born 30 years too early.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 9 years ago
    kudos to Curt Schilling...politically correct speech is the New Fascism for violating free speech...the issue of male/female/x bathrooms is a free market issue...if private companies want "x"s business, they will build bathrooms for "x"...if not, it is none of the govt's business...
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