Almost 75% of almost 3,000 online respondents said gay marriage activists ought not to be protesting the Australian Open over tennis champion Margaret's Court views on marriage, according to the Herald Sun:
Gay rights activists plan to storm the Australian Open in protest at anti-gay comments by Australian tennis champion Margaret Court.
Activists plan to inundate Margaret Court Arena and raise hundreds of rainbow flags. Thousands of supporters have already backed the protest.
Protest co-ordinator Doug Pollard urged people to wear rainbow colours to the event each day.
... Australian Sex Party president Fiona Patten said the Australian Open was a great platform to promote tolerance.
"Hopefully this sends the message that the majority of the community believe everybody should be treated equally," she said.
But the Australian Christian Lobby urged a rethink.
"Margaret Court has never sought to use either her status or this event to politicise her views, or even publicise them, instead the gay activists have, and with unbelievable vitriol," managing director Jim Wallace said.
Court, who made comments last month opposing gay marriage, will head to the open next week and said she had no reservations about attending despite the uproar.
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Brava, Margaret.
Let the Bolsheviks scream their hatred at biology for constituting us in two complementary genders.
Biology, like Margaret Court, will just get on with business
Really NOM? Yet all those Christian protesters that show up at gay pride with all their condemning signs is Ok? And never, other than just existing, had the gays provoked these protest.
The indecent behavior that goes on at gay pride marches deserves public rebuke.
Bman, I'm glad you agree me, the behavior of those so-called Christians is inexcusable.
From the point of view of the indecent, the behavior of the decent is inexcusable.
The situation is not analogous.
A more analogous situation would be Christian (or Jewish, Muslim, or Scientologist) protestors showing up at a tennis championship because one of the players supported a gay right.
Of course they were provoked.
Christians are disrupting the disruptive, Gee, that's tuff.
yeah...because showing up in droves wearing rainbows to spread equality is totally 'hijacking'....riiiight.
Why be content with artful dodging rather than truth?
The typical indecent behavior of gays was why the mayor of New York suspended public decency laws for the pride march there.
Bman writes
"The indecent behavior that goes on at gay pride marches deserves public rebuke."
Indeed.
The gay pride parade was San Diego was so lewd that a court ruled that forcing firemen to attend it constituted sexual harassment. See http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=1208492
Bill says:
...your hostility towards gay just merely for their existence proves my point, thank you.
Mr. Incredible aks:
What "hostility"? You're projecting.
I got nothing against anybody just cuz they exist, just cuz they're persons.
I got something against persons who self-identify as homo AND who got a world-conquering agenda about it.
Protesting in general is increasingly becoming little more than just another form of bullying.
Anyway, this is about the sport of Tennis, in Australia. Some people stand their ground, and don't get manipulated by threats. No one becomes a great Tennis player (e.g., Margaret Court) by being chicken, i mean gay - getting emotional about it. How does one know who is or is not 'gay' - we don't really know. They could simply be people who want to be 'radical' or free, like tattooed people. Bill, when you learn to play Tennis so well, come back, and we'll listen.
Bill,a "gay pride" parade is not "just existing".It is loudly attempting to celebrate inclinations toward contemptible behavior.
@ Louis E. Thankfully we live in a democracy and whether you approve or not, is beside the point. I didn't realise it was a requirement of citizenship that you attend gay parade events against your will - ah right, it isn't.
Fundamentalists talk a lot about freedom but that seems to be the freedom to be exactly like them.
Freedom of speech is freedom to tell someone you do not like what they have to say. Margaret Court has every right to say whatever she likes, but as a consequence, others have a right to say her opinion is nonsense.
Hey I am a 19 yo Australian gay guy and my friend linked this article to me. When you guys say being gay is a choice? What do you mean? Because I know protestants say same-sex attraction is a sinful choice and the only way to be free is to become straight whereas Catholics say abstinence is a moral alternative, among protestants this is not an option (at least according to Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps, Pat Robertson) I would like to know what your view is? I have no desire to join any religion (Im atheist) and I dont think gay sex hurts anyone so therefore nothing will stop me from doing it but I am interested in your views