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It's amazing how long some adults keep those youthful
habits produced by indoctrination and intimidation in
physical education classes. They can democratically refer
to President Bush as mere Bush,
and to Governor
Romer as a breezy Romer,
but on TV lately, it's
still a deferential Coach McCartney.
Bill McCartney signed his name and job title, head
football coach at the University of Colorado, to some
propaganda issued by Colorado for Family Values.
That's an outfit, based in Colorado Springs of course,
which wants to amend our state constitution so that
home-rule cities like Denver and Boulder will be forbidden
to enact gay-rights ordinances.
CU President Judith Albino quickly ordered an attorney to determine whether McCartney had misused his connection with the university. Apparently there are acceptable and unacceptable ways for coaches to use their positions for profit and influence. It is generally acceptable for a coach to accept money from sporting-goods manufacturers, or to get a lucrative contract from a television station for a weekly program. Someday we may learn what is unacceptable behavior for a winning coach, but that day has yet to dawn.
Now if McCartney is truly a man who follows the Bible,
he has no choice but to call male homosexuality an
abomination of Almighty God,
for as it is written,
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it
is abomination.
(Leviticus 18:22).
As far as our national constitution is concerned -- we just celebrated the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights, which are also the Rights of Bill here -- McCartney has every right to expound his religious beliefs and to petition the government for redress of his grievances.
That shouldn't even be an issue. Here's the real
question: Why would Colorado for Family Values
want
McCartney's name anywhere near their operation?
Unwed motherhood is not something that most of us deem a
good family value,
and yet that's the status of
McCartney's daughter.
Date rape isn't exactly my idea of a family value
either, but when two of his players were accused of date
rape, McCartney rushed to their defense, saying the act had
to be violent to be rape. Presumably that definition also
exonerates another family-value CU football player, the
hulking rapist who bound his gagged victims in duct-tape.
Not much violence there, either, since the women couldn't
struggle -- another family value
and another result
of how sports build character?
It's hard to think of any traditional family
value
encouraged by big-time sports. If Wilt
Chamberlain's 20,000 liaisons were a family value, then
George Bush is a man of steadfast conviction and David Duke
will be the next president of the NAACP. How many children
are disappointed and perhaps confused on Father's Day when
Steve Garvey or Vance Johnson is nowhere to be found? I
hold deep doubts that Martha would consider it a family
value if I, like Jose Canseco, set up a 900 line so that I
could collect money from callers while I described her
body.
As nearly as I can tell, Colorado for Family Values is really a clever plot by abortionist single-parent homosexuals to make their opponents look like fools. Why else would Colorado for Family Values have wanted Bill McCartney?
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