Religious Lunacy and Sports

The NCAA is under fire today.

In nine days, the NCAA is supposed to hold the Final Four in Indianapolis.

As of this morning, many GLBT groups are rightly calling for the NCAA to pull out.

The state of Indiana has become the latest state to jump into the "the right of religion gives me the right to discriminate against gays as a function of my relationship with God" farce by signing into law exactly that right -- the right of any business in Indiana (which would include the NCAA itself, whose offices are in Indianapolis) to discriminate against GLBT people on the basis that no one has a right to infringe upon the religious beliefs of any person (corporate or otherwise), or their ability to practice it.

FUCK THAT.

Seriously!

Let me tell you how far this is about to go.  There's a fucking idiot in Huntington Beach, CA -- a lawyer who should be disbarred and jailed (and, if he isn't, he could well end up shot within the next 3 months or so!) for actually proposing a ballot initiative in the state of California to execute gay people, giving individual citizens the right to do so if the state fails to execute every gay person in the state within one year of passage (which would place that date around November of 2017).  To even support gay rights in California is a million-dollar fine, 10 years in state prison, and expulsion from the state!

And since this Old Testament JACKASS filed it, California Attorney General Kamala Harris (the former DA of San Francisco, from which I post this today)  has to go to court and HOPE she can get the court to rule that she is not forced to put this barbaric piece of shit on the track for 360,000 signatures to put it on the 2016 General Election ballot.

Even putting out the signatures WILL kill people -- and THAT is the bullshit that members of the GLBT community are up against -- and THAT is why there are people today demanding the NCAA pull the Final Four out.

They won't.  Let's not fool ourselves.  The homophobia in the American Sports Machine is quite alive and well.

Why?  The people like Darren Sharper -- and those at the University of Oregon, as reported by Deadspin today.

A University of Oregon student was raped by three members of the 2013-14 basketball team.  The school actually found them guilty, but there was a catch:  The students were still allowed to play in Oregon's run in the 2014 NCAA Tournament.

Two months ago, the victim sued the University, not only for that fact and not only for the fact that the counseling records were given to the University's lawyers (expecting this litigation), but for failure to protect.

Karen Stokes was the executive to the assistant to the director of the counseling center.  She protested the release of the records.

The University of Oregon FIRED HER ASS for that.

Is it going to take violence before GLBT's and women actually get an ounce of rights here?

Is it really going to take people taking the law into their own hands and forcing the hands of bigoted lawyers and universities (and schools at lower levels) which exist only for the promotion and propagation of sports teams to force people to come correct?

Tick tock, world.  Tick fucking tock.