Lobbyist drafts bill to ban gays from NFL

[benjipwns]

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/199057-lobbyist-drafting-bill-to-ban-gays-from-nfl

Washington lobbyist Jack Burkman on Monday said he is preparing legislation that would ban gay athletes from joining the National Football League.

Burkman in a statement said he has garnered political support for the bill, though his statement didn’t mention any specific lawmakers who are behind it.

”We are losing our decency as a nation,” Burkman said in a statement. "Imagine your son being forced to shower with a gay man. That’s a horrifying prospect for every mom in the country. What in the world has this nation come to?”

Burkman said he came up with the idea after college football star Michael Sam publicly revealed he is gay a few weeks ago. If drafted, Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL.

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Burkman was not available to speak with The Hill but urged Congress to act in his statement.

“If the NFL has no morals and no values, then Congress must find values for it,” Burkman said.

IMAGINE IT.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Burkman insisted that five members of the House of Representatives and one senator are interested in co-sponsoring the bill, and that those numbers would rise to 36 and five, respectively, within three weeks. Notably, he declined to name any of the lawmakers in question.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/ban-gays-nfl_n_4849250.html?1393279439

Even Burkman concedes that conservatives like himself are supposed to find it abhorrent when the government tells a private business how to conduct its affairs.

"However," he added, "there are times when that is trumped for reason of great urgency or necessity. And I think this is it, because I see the society sliding in the wrong direction."

"I felt that if the NFL doesn't have any morals, and people like [Commissioner] Roger Goodell, who are just go-along-get-along guys, just want to appease advertisers, appease corporate America and all that stuff," he said, "I figured, well, it is time for conservatives in Congress to step in and define morality for them."

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And what about the obvious historical parallel to the era when Major League Baseball prohibited black ballplayers from taking the field?

"That is a completely different thing, a different issue. Race, skin color, have nothing to do with it," Burkman said. "This is not about bigotry. It is about common decency and civility. Society is moving to a point where we are going to have unisex bathrooms and the next generation thinks that is OK."

[Tasty]

As if straight guys aren't checking out the goods.

[Mandark]

Knew I recognized the name from somewhere.

http://wonkette.com/277947/family-research-council-lobbyist-also-on-dc-madams-list

[pilonv1]

IMAGINE IT.

I bet most of this forum does

[Shaka Khan]

[Damian79]

Making threads like this probably gives the hypocrite more legitimacy than he deserves.

[Great Rumbler]

Even Burkman concedes that conservatives like himself are supposed to find it abhorrent when the government tells a private business how to conduct its affairs.

"However," he added, "there are times when that is trumped for reason of great urgency or necessity. And I think this is it, because I see the society sliding in the wrong direction."

Government intervention in business is wrong...except when we say it's not.

[Brehvolution]

It's not about bigotry..,

[Phoenix Dark]

Making threads like this probably gives the hypocrite more legitimacy than he deserves.

This is the first time I've seen the "talking about x speaks it into existence" argument used on gays. I thought it was exclusively used on race issues.

I guess this makes us all reverse homophobes, except for you

[Joe Molotov]

Look, it's 2014, and I think we just need to be mature enough as a society to admit this to ourselves...but most athletes are gay as sin. The level of grab-assing that goes in on a locker room, really from the high school level up, is beyond what any rational person would consider heteronormative.

[demi]

Gay, straight, as long as there are beefy linebacks, the NFL can stay. Imagine those locker room sessions

[Phoenix Dark]

imagine all the bbc Erin Andrews sees in locker rooms

[benjipwns]

Making threads like this probably gives the hypocrite more legitimacy than he deserves.

Hopefully he's one of those types who incessantly Google searches his name, like that movie reviewer or whatever the fuck he was who had a six year old beef with The Bore.

[Phoenix Dark]

[Smooth Groove]

"Society is moving to a point where we are going to have unisex bathrooms and the next generation thinks that is OK."

Quite a few universities have had unisex bathrooms in dorms for a long time.   Apparently even the last generation thought it was ok.