I didn't know this until very recently, but apparently Mario Gomez is a big advocate of gay football players coming out to the world.
Gomez said that football players who do this would feel 'liberated' and that being gay is no longer a 'taboo subject' in football. Other critics, including Philipp Lahm, worry that any footballer who does this will get torn to shreds quicker than a toilet roll on the Andrex puppy commercials.
Allegedly, Gomez himself has refused to say whether he is one of the people he advocates for, as he keeps his private life very secretive. Gomez himself, however, is not of importance here - the situation is. And opinion is divided over the situation.
Part of the concern is that, even though there are more and more female fans than ever, football is still considered a 'macho sport' and such a movement would ruin the image of the sport. A macho sport? Given all the fashion icons, the peculiar tastes and the fragile theatrics on the field, is it really?
What's your take on the situation - should people be who they are, or would this still entail too great a risk in the modern game?
Gomez: Time to come out?
posted on 27/4/12
Unless you're ginger.
posted on 27/4/12
It just sounds contradictory to on the one hand have god as an all powerful, all knowing deity but to then say he didn't intend man to commit evil. Because if he's created everything then he's created the possibility for man to think those evils. If he's infallible couldn't he have created a world where the concept of these sins didn't exist in the first place?
posted on 27/4/12
Like robots basically. No evil, just good. I programme you to do exactly as I say...no problems.
I am led to believe that God has emotions as well, and you gain more pleasure in people doing stuff because they want to do it for you rather than because they feel they have no choice.
posted on 27/4/12
What football team does God support?
posted on 27/4/12
Unbelievable. This thing is still going on...
Here's my two cents, as the article creator -
I'm not a follower of religion, not because I find it offensive or don't understand, but because too many bad things (war, genocide, prejudice, murder) have been borne from or can be started or exacerbated by religion. So religion's take on homosexuality makes no difference to me at all, and I don't believe in God because I believe the power if would take to created the universe as we know if is too great to be wielded by a single (and obviously not infallible) being.
So take away religion and I see homosexuality as nothing more than a way of life, and provided none of it is harmful to others, people should not be paraiahs for their ways of life, on the football pitch or otherwise.
posted on 27/4/12
And Dot - if there was a God and he supported a team it would be Real Madrid, as God's remit is supposedly to make men in his own image. Real are overwhelmingly followed, regularly attacked by non-believers, have a storied rivalry with an option that thinks itself to be better (Barca), and although they appear all-mighty, they are prone to basic sloppy mistakes, like penalties.
posted on 27/4/12
although they appear all-mighty, they are prone to basic sloppy mistakes, like penalties.
----------------
And putting Andy Parsons on earth.
posted on 27/4/12
Gay people are gay.
posted on 27/4/12
posted on 27/4/12
Whip it out!