Shut Up and Let Him Swing

Courtesy of Can’t Stop the Bleeding, we have word on Carl Everett making a splash in Seattle with a Seattle Post-Intelligencer interview in which he was goaded by reporter Jim Moore into repeating some controversial statements.

Now, Everett is no Ken Hamm on Creation. (Note: Neither am I which is why the issue isn’t really discussed on this blog.) But then they get into the homosexuality issue:

Asked whether he had any regrets for what he said in Maxim, Everett said: “For what? Read the article. There should be no regrets.”

Well, what about your views on homosexuality, that being gay is wrong?

“It’s in the Bible,” Everett said. “A woman and a woman can’t have a baby, and a man and a man can’t have a baby.”

But what would you say to gay Mariners fans? Aren’t you concerned about offending them?

“I didn’t say nothing about the person,” he said. “It’s the act …”

First of all as to offending Gay Mariners Fans, did Carl Everett come into Seattle and deliver a speech on homosexuality? Did he protest a gay bar? Carl Everett came to Seattle to play Baseball. Jim Moore came to Everett to create problems. Carl gets asked questions and he answers them.

No one asks a movie actor who makes a far left movie, “Are you concerned about offending Conservative movie goers?” They just go and make the film and the media lauds it. Carl Everett not agreeing with evolution or homosexuality is now a federal case.

More fundamentally, who cares what Carl Everett thinks about homosexuality? Unless Washington’s Constiution has been amended to grant legal judgment on homosexuality to “the guy who goes to bat, and then sits down for three innintgs” its really none of the media’s concern.

Though, I have to admit Everett has some keen insights, including this:

Last seen on Wednesday afternoon, Everett for no good reason was asked if he watches “American Idol.” He quickly said that he doesn’t watch TV because there’s nothing worth watching on TV, including Gammons no doubt.

There’s nothing like “Bonanza” and “Gilligan’s Island,” shows he used to watch as a kid.

Perceptive.

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