Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish. God killed an antihomosexual bigot yesterday. Thank you, God.
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Reggie White, a former NFL football star who was also an ordained minister, died suddenly and unexpectedly at age 43. Forty-three. He had been dubbed the "Minister of Defense" because he was both a defensive lineman and a supposed 'man of God'. AP reports today that "White worked tirelessly in the offseason with inner-city youths. But his image was tarnished when he gave a speech in which he denounced homosexuality and used ethnic stereotypes. White later apologized." Not quite. ABC News reported last nite that he apologized only for the ethnic remarks. He stood by his condemnation of homosexuality.
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And that is why God killed him in the prime of life.
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The AP story, by one Paul Nowell (an alternate spelling for "Noel", by the way, as in this Christmas season), says:

"Reggie White was a gentle warrior who will be remembered as one of the greatest defensive players in NFL history," NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said. "Equally as impressive as his achievements on the field was the positive impact he made off the field and the way he served as a positive influence on so many young people."

"Positive influence"!?! Promoting antihomosexual bigotry among young people? Aren't there enuf ghetto thugs, at the very bottom of society in every sense, pretending themselves superior to "faggots" — even those who hold advanced degrees and great jobs and serve as veritable pillars of the community — without a minister of God encouraging them in that vicious and useless delusion?
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And what of the multitudinous young black homosexuals whom he implicitly told to accept their blackness but not their sexual nature? To seek a good life as black people but not as gay people? What of the HARM he did to them?
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I do not honor Reggie White's memory, nor that of any other simpleminded antihomosexual bigot who parrots the lunatic ravings of the JEWISH rant Leviticus while never thinking for so much as an instant how perfectly homosexuality accords with the Golden Rule given to us by Jesus: perfectly, absolutely accords, word-for-word, with His teaching, "As you would have others do to you, so too do to them". Gay men can use superstition as blatantly as their enemies do. Let us indeed proclaim that Reggie White died young because he promoted hate while claiming to speak for the God of Love. God killed him, because God is on our side!
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I don't really believe in God, but Reggie White claimed to, and used his position as a minister of God to denounce homosexuality and try to make life more difficult for people who never did him wrong. A black man, who should have known better than to indulge in, much ess promote, bigotry, undid all his good works, as far as hundreds of millions of men all across this planet are concerned, by attacking people who never attacked him.
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So let gay men and their allies use God to bolster our position just as Reggie 'White' did, and claim that God in his infinite wisdom struck down the unrepentant sinner Reggie White for his unprovoked offense against men who are following God's teaching, "As you would have others do to you, so too do to them" — literally. The God of Love has struck down hate by making an example of a man who misread His message and promoted intolerance. Who's to say otherwise?
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:02 PM