DGS49
Diamond Member
Anyone paying attention is by now aware that boxer Manny Pacquiao has got many people's shorts in a bunch by stating publicly the following:
"It's common sense. Do you see animals mating with the same sex? Animals are better because they can distinguish male from female. If men mate with men and women mate with women, they are worse than animals."
As a result, he has lost an endorsement contract with Nike, and is being excoriated by the breathless umbrage-takers of sport and the media. When asked to retract his statement he points out that it is biblically correct, and declines to retract it.
He is said to be a "Homo-Phobe."
NIke, you might recall, chose to stick with the golfer, "Tiger" Woods after it was made very public that he was a serial adulterer.
Consider:
What Pacquiao said is quite consistent with the teachings of the Christian Bible. While many "Christians" treat the Bible like a Cafeteria, picking and choosing what they like and rejecting what they don't like, the Biblical position on homosexual sodomy is not seriously in dispute.
Indeed, every serious Christian sect in the U.S. teaches that homosexual sodomy is sinful (The Episcopal Church, USA is no longer "Christian" in any meaningful sense).
Up until the very recent past, homosexual sodomy was a criminal act in essentially every State in the Union, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Marshall Islands. It was only by virtue of a renegade Supreme Court finding a fictitious "Right of Privacy" in the Constitution, that its criminality ended. Few of those laws have actually been repealed by the representatives of the people in the state legislatures, presumably because those elected persons consider that the people don't WANT them formally repealed.
So Nike and the rest of the sports world condemn this boxer for expressing an opinion about the teachings of the Bible that is not even in dispute, while it still treats Woods as a "sports hero," whatever that is.
Is this lunacy, or what?
"It's common sense. Do you see animals mating with the same sex? Animals are better because they can distinguish male from female. If men mate with men and women mate with women, they are worse than animals."
As a result, he has lost an endorsement contract with Nike, and is being excoriated by the breathless umbrage-takers of sport and the media. When asked to retract his statement he points out that it is biblically correct, and declines to retract it.
He is said to be a "Homo-Phobe."
NIke, you might recall, chose to stick with the golfer, "Tiger" Woods after it was made very public that he was a serial adulterer.
Consider:
What Pacquiao said is quite consistent with the teachings of the Christian Bible. While many "Christians" treat the Bible like a Cafeteria, picking and choosing what they like and rejecting what they don't like, the Biblical position on homosexual sodomy is not seriously in dispute.
Indeed, every serious Christian sect in the U.S. teaches that homosexual sodomy is sinful (The Episcopal Church, USA is no longer "Christian" in any meaningful sense).
Up until the very recent past, homosexual sodomy was a criminal act in essentially every State in the Union, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Marshall Islands. It was only by virtue of a renegade Supreme Court finding a fictitious "Right of Privacy" in the Constitution, that its criminality ended. Few of those laws have actually been repealed by the representatives of the people in the state legislatures, presumably because those elected persons consider that the people don't WANT them formally repealed.
So Nike and the rest of the sports world condemn this boxer for expressing an opinion about the teachings of the Bible that is not even in dispute, while it still treats Woods as a "sports hero," whatever that is.
Is this lunacy, or what?
