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fatedforu asked in SportsOther - Sports · 1 decade ago

gay athlete?

If your favorite athlete or player announced he or she was gay, would that change your preception of the player?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    no

  • 1 decade ago

    A good athlete is still a good athlete. As far as perceiving this person as a role model YES it would change. The bible is perfectly clear on this topic. Check Romans 1:26 tells God's point of view.Look up also 1 Corinthians 6:9. One should worry more about the ways of God than the ways of this world.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wouldn't change my mind in any way. Like one of the other dudes posted. A great athlete is a great athlete. Who cares what the sexual preference is. My question to all homophobics is this. If you were in a burning building and a homosexual firefighter saved your life from burning alive in that fire, Would you rather burn alive or live from the acts of someone who cared you lived? We need not worry about other peoples sexual preferences. At the end of the day does it really honestly matter?

  • 1 decade ago

    Are you looking for honesty? Yes, how could it not change your perception? Let's say Favre is my favorite player. Since I was a young man I have thought of him as a mans man. The toughest man I ever saw. I guess it would change the meaning of mans man! LOL Anyhow, we can all fear sounding bad for saying we percieve gays as different than straight. The fact is they are different and most people can't always look past that. Maybe someday, but not today. I didn't say that a gay man is bad because he's gay, but he is different. If he weren't he'd like women!

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  • 1 decade ago

    I have no problem with gay people so if i had my fav athlete come out and say he was gay i wouldnt mind cause i liked him before why change now it doesnt matter

  • 4 years ago

    Are you no longer counting determine skaters as athletes? i visit wager it is particularly helpful to no longer do a quadruple axle. additionally, I did hear of a hockey participant that at the instant have been given right here out of the closet. i think of it develop into hockey... for particular you could comprehend that the aggressiveness unfavorable to gays by skill of potential of the classic "manly" worldwide of activities could pick to be sufficient to maintain particularly all of us in spite of the certainty that the main desperate gays out of the worldwide of activities. it is an identical reason such particularly some extra useful adult males than women situation doing activities. for particular there is situation-loose interest too. immediately adult males have a bent to be extra useful attracted to team activities.

  • 1 decade ago

    no,because so many people have their different kind of sexuality,homo,bi,hetero...and its not their fault if theyre gay...they are talented players,we have to appreciate their efforts,its hard to be an athlete you know...even they're gay I still like them...I have favourite athletes,I don't look at their look,gayness but I like them because I look at the way they play/do that sport and their sportmanship...that's what an athelete is.. (sorry my english is bad, as long as you can understand what I mean)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if i had a favorite athlete, it wouldn't matter. still wouldn't change them.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes it would, I would hate the guy for that

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't mind if they are straight, why should I mind if they're gay? ;)

  • 1 decade ago

    Absolutely not.

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