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Thursday, January 03, 2013

Baseball star: I would be ‘uncomfortable’ with having a gay teammate

Torii Hunter, who plays as a slugger for the Detroit Tigers, says he would find it “difficult and uncomfortable” to accept openly gay baseball players.  The 37-year-old claims it’s because of his Christian beliefs.

In an interview to the LA Times, which published an article about the lack of openly gay baseball players, Hunter said:  “For me, as a Christian … I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it’s not right,” he added: “It will be difficult and uncomfortable.”

Grant Hill, who plays for the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, was also quoted in the article saying: “It’s still taboo in the locker room” for a player to be openly gay.
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The criticism of him has been fairly muted, probably because he is black