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Related: About this forumOmaha City Council rejects Ron Brown’s bigotry, protects gays from discrimination
http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2012/03/14/omaha-city-council-rejects-ron-browns-bigotry-votes-to-protect-gay-people-from-discrimination/Despite attempts by Nebraska Cornhuskers assistant football coach Ron Brown to keep anti-LGBT discrimination legal in Omaha, the city council there has voted, 4-3, to protect everyone in the LGBT community from discrimination. According to the Omaha World-Herald, Brown stuck to his position that gay people should be discriminated against:
The Lord is on the throne, he declared after the Omaha City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday to approve an ordinance that he opposed protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals from discrimination. This doesnt stop those who want to honor Him and follow him from doing the best we could to honor His name.
Brown added: As you learn in sports, things dont always go your way, and you have to be a great sport about it. We all have a responsibility to protect everyone from harm and destruction, and from any ill will and bad comments.
Brown also told the World-Herald reporter that god would punish those who dont discriminate against gay people, that homosexuality is a choice, and that calling gay rights civil rights is an insult to black people.
How can someone like this keep his job? Its one thing to have political opinions. While some may seem problematic, we have to allow people of all political persuasions to pursue their lifes dreams. This goes beyond that. This is a man, in charge of impressionable young men, saying he believes it is in Gods will to discriminate against gay people. He thinks that God will punish you in the afterlife if you dont discriminate against gay people. With about 100 men on the Nebraska football team each year, its guaranteed that at least one of them is gay every year: Yet they have to hear how they are wrong, and that they must be discriminated against. If Brown found out a player was gay, he would punish that player. This goes beyond a political opinion, what Brown is pushing is truly damaging in a world where so many gay kids still kill themselves.
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Omaha City Council rejects Ron Brown’s bigotry, protects gays from discrimination (Original Post)
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Mar 2012
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William769
(55,147 posts)1. Recommended.
GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)2. He needs counseling. Much anger in him, there is.
RetiredTrotskyite
(1,507 posts)3. Great Job, Omaha!
It's really good to see this happen! Glad to see Ron Brown didn't prevail. He sounds like a royal jerk. Very few people, I think, would say that the gay civil rights struggle and the black civil rights struggles are identical, but they ARE similar in that they are struggles for full rights and justice.