In the 1960s and 70s a young Aussie called Margaret Court was the
undisputed champ of women’s tennis. She was the Martina of her day.
The proto-Williams. Sharapova without steroids. She was a winner. Yet
even back then she had views that were… different. At a time when
everyone was boycotting South Africa because of apartheid, Margaret
praised the regime as being ‘better than the United States’ in racial
matters. Though looking at America in the 60s they had almost the same
thing there in many states.

Then she found God. Always a problem. And she’s a church pastor. Which
is not just finding God but kind’a eating at his table, going to his
parties, chillin’ together, kind’a thing. And because of God she’s now
abandoning Quantas airline because ‘they support same sex marriage’.
And she doesn’t. And He (apparently) doesn’t. Even though this is not
some radical Islamic, throw-gays-off-the-roof kind of God, but the
other one, the Western one, with the beard. She further said that
tennis was full of lesbians. And as a tennis player myself, I’d like
to state here and now that I’m no lesbian. Not through want of trying
but they won’t let me join.

Poor, old deluded Maggie then said the best one: that teaching in
schools about such things as ‘gayness’ was ‘what Hitler did. Got into
the minds of children’. Which, other than being historically wrong,
Hitler never messed about with kids but went straight for the adults,
is just plain and simple fucked up. Its on a par with not teaching
evolution (still a problem in some schools in America, nearly 100
years after the ‘Scopes trial’).

I wanna know why her God is so intolerant of gay people? Particularly
lesbians. Martina Navratilova has had ‘words’. Some in English, some
in Czech, all expletive. Good for her.

Have a super, tolerant, inclusive Friday

A xxxx