From the Game On sports blog on USA Today:
[Former NBA basketball player] Charles Barkley says how openly gay athletes would be accepted in team locker rooms would only depend on how well they can play.
Barkley, on SiriusXM Radio, was asked about New York Ranger Sean Avery supporting same-sex marriage and whether openly gays athletes would be accepted in pro sports. Barkley replied how gay athletes would only be judged by "whether he can play or not. If somebody is gay, that's their own business. But it bothers me how people try to say that jocks are not going to like a gay. ... I think gay people should be allowed to get married and God bless them, that's their own business. Listen, if a guy can't play that's the only time we don't want to play with him. We don't care about all that extracurricular stuff."
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Sean Avery thing prompts Charles Barkley to take pro-gay stance
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