From the Chicago Sun-Times’ Northwest Indiana outlet, the
Post-Tribune:
Chicago sports legends Ernie Banks
and Richard Dent are among a group of professional athletes who have signed
their names to a letter urging the Illinois General Assembly to make gay
marriage legal in the state.
“In Illinois today, gay
and lesbian couples who are in lifetime committed relationships do not have the
freedom to marry,” the athletes write in “An Open Letter from Athletes on
Marriage Equality.”
“This violates our sense
of fairness and respect. It also goes against the golden rule of treating
others as you would like to be treated yourself. In sports, any time a player
is not treated with fairness and respect, the game is diminished. Similarly,
treating any group of people as second-class citizens hurts us all, because
discrimination is wrong no matter whom the target is.”
Mr. Cub, ladies and gentlemen. And Your Super Bowl
XX MVP, Richard “The Sackman” Dent. You can have your 104 years of World Series
titles; I’ll always love my Cubs. And Richard
Dent? Holy crap:
And one other thing. Can we dispense with the
hackneyed notion that African Americans are hostile to gay rights? There are
jackasses everywhere, of course, but the notion that being Black makes you
predisposed to homophobia is, well … racist. Duh.
[Cross-posted at Angry
Black Lady Chronicles]
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