Whether or not you agree with what Hardaway said, what's wrong with him expressing his feelings. Criticism of him amounts to simply saying, "anyone can feel how they want about anything, as long as they feel the same about it as me."
In our modern society, we claim that we must accept anyone, whether or not we agree with them. Hardaway's diatribe obviously doesn't conform with this perceived ideal, but it actually fits perfectly with what America is founded on: the possibility of believing different things. Hardaway succinctly expressed his take on things, and you then go and attack him and label him a moron. Your conclusion appears to be that people in America are free to either agree with your opinion or not have an opinion at all. Hardaway didn't say that he thought a gay person should be discriminated against by the government, just that he didn't want anything to do with that kind of person, which should be his right to declare, but apparently, according to the all-knowing Jack, that makes him a moron. A Jack-of-all-knowledge with such an enlightened view of human nature would probably also call a mother who didn't want their child at a day care run by a convicted child molester a moron!
What Jack doesn't realize is that it is part of America to be able to determine who you personally want to deal with and who you want to avoid. Tim Hardaway is no more of a moron for making deprecating remarks about gays than Jack McCallum is for making deprecating remarks about Tim Hardaway.
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