Politically incorrect golf: Top 10
By Seamus Rotherick
9. Bubba Watson, 2013. ‘Thanks Chris Broussard for sharing your faith’
There aren’t many current American basketball players that UK sports’ fans could name, but arguably the most famous is Jason Collins, who became the first active male professional athlete in a major North American team sport to come out publicly as gay, earlier this year.
He received support from all over the world, with even Barack Obama saying he was proud of him.
But it wasn’t unanimous – basketball commentator Chris Broussard responded to Collins coming out by saying that homosexuality was ‘a sin’ and a ‘rebellion against God’.
Broussard received an enormous backlash on Twitter for his comments, which sparked Bubba, the 2012 Masters champion, to rush to his defence. ‘Thanks Chris Broussard for sharing your faith and the Bible!! #Godisgood’, he wrote on the same social media site.
It wasn’t the support that Broussard wanted – he responded by releasing a statement saying he had been an ‘intolerant buffoon’.
By Seamus Rotherick
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Whatever happend to “sticks & stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Society far too preciuos and sensitive and all the Press are doing is stirring up because they have no real stories of interest or want to help lawyers earn litigation fees!!!
Business is slowing down right now….So, who you gonna call?? However, the earliest known reference recording a competition for women golfers dates from the 9th of January, 1811…..
… Ah! 2013… and the business is slowing down right now,hey?! So…Who you gonna call? ….
R and A’s Peter Dawson on all-male membership ‘it’s hardly life threatening is it’! Still reeling over that one.
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