Tennis and same sex marriage? Yes, you read right, for some, they should go together

Tennis and same sex marriage have become an issue here in Australia, that is holding the annual Australian Open Tennis tournament.

Australia's greatest female tennis player, Margaret Court, said in an interview to Reuters that she opposed same sex marriage:

Tennis great Margaret Court told Reuters on Wednesday she was sad her religious views were being used as fuel for a planned protest at next week's Australian Open, but said she remained staunchly opposed to same-sex marriage. 

Activists are calling for people attending the year's first grand slam event, starting on Monday, to unfurl "rainbow flags" at the Margaret Court Arena, the third show court at Melbourne Park, named after the Australian.

So one person does not agree with same sex marriage, they target the Australian Open with protest. They ruin the experience to many, because they can't offer the right of opinion to one individual. Disgusting.

But it is my opinion (yes, I am entitled to have one) that Court has been singled out because of her faith:

Court, a 24-times grand slam singles champion and a pastor at the Victory Life Centre church in Perth, has long opposed same-sex marriage but sparked a fierce backlash from retired women's champions Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King, both homosexuals, when she reiterated her views in a Western Australian newspaper recently.

She is a pastor, who is allowed to make her views public. She continues:
Court was quoted describing advocacy of same-sex marriage as promoting "unhealthy" and "unnatural" unions.

"To dismantle this sole definition of marriage and try to legitimise what God calls abominable sexual practices that include sodomy, reveals our ignorance as to the ills that come when society is forced to accept law that violates their very own God-given nature of what is right and what is wrong," the newspaper quoted her as saying.
Court yesterday told Reuters that she stuck by her views on same-sex marriage but denied she was anti-gay.
"I actually love homosexual people," the 69-year-old said in a telephone interview. "I do not have anything against them. It's just my view [about gay marriage] and it's in the scriptures ... The Bible will always be the TV guide to my life.
"I believe marriage is something between a man and a woman."

She believes what's marriage has been for the last 5,000 yrs, and suddenly, she is bullied by a minority who wants to rule the majority!! Is this democracy?

"Minority groups can have their views [but] as soon as a Christian stands up it's not allowed," she said.

You got that right!!! Christians stand up for their beliefs, and are vilified in the media. What makes me more upset, that some so-called 'christians' say that we, the majority who are trying to keep God's laws, should make way for these people who want to rule over us. Here in Australia, the Greens, a minority party, is moving the Labour Party into accepting gay marriage, but they are the junior coalition partner. But the Labor Party, is such a party without a backbone, they are willing to bend before the Greens, on this issue, and others.


In a following news item, Court was quoted again. I think she properly represents how the gay lobby works:

Last week, Court, 69, reportedly said: "Politically correct education has masterfully escorted homosexuality out from behind closed doors, into the community openly and now is aggressively demanding marriage rights that are not theirs to take.
"The fact that the homosexual cry is, 'We can't help it, as we were born this way,' as the cause behind their own personal choice is cause for concern."

I commend Margaret Court for saying the truth, and standing up for it. If we let those who oppose truth to silence it, it is homosexuality today, what's tomorrow? Human freedom of thought?


Good on you pastor.