The lead story on CBS radio news at the top of the noon (CDT ) hour today was that journeyman NBA center Jason Collins has come out, announcing to the world that he is gay. Mr. Collins thus becomes the first athlete in a “big four” pro team sport to come out.
With all that is going on in the world, that this was the lead story is troubling enough, and grist for another mill. I have a more appropriate comment/question on the Collins situation:
WHO CARES?
This is not an entirely rhetorical question. There are indeed some who care, but these people occupy the fringes of both sides what can only clumsily be described as the “gay rights issue.” Those who have come to be known as strident gay activists care. Those who are convinced that being gay is a sin (even while piously arguing that it is not homosexuality, but, rather, homosexual conduct, that is a sin…as if there were much of a distinction in practice and the rest of us are naïve enough to fall for such a disingenuous proclamation) care.
Most of us, however, simply don’t care who people sleep with. We don’t think it is as large a piece of someone’s identity as the gay activists would have us believe and don’t think that there is anything wrong with being gay and acting on that preference.
We do care, however, that our airwaves are occupied with such non-news.
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