Broussard on Amaechi

Chris Broussard, writing for an ESPN.com blog has a pretty insightful commentary on the whole John Amaechi "coming out" story. For those of you who have not heard, John Amaechi is a former stand out player for the Penn State basketball team and 4 year player in the NBA. He is one of a very small number of professional athletes from a major franchise to publicly affirm his homosexuality.

Broussard says,

For the record, I covered Amaechi as a beat writer for the Akron Beacon Journal when he was a rookie playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

I like John. He's intelligent, nice and you can have a good conversation with him. I haven't seen him in several years but if I saw him today, I'd smile and give him a hug. I think dinner with him would be a blast, with lots of great discussion/debate about race, politics, religion, Africa and yes, sexuality.

Since Amaechi came out, I've read lots of columns about being "progressive." The implication -- or outright assertion -- is that anyone who believes homosexuality is wrong is not progressive or enlightened.

That's where this thing becomes problematic, because those who hold to that view are saying I must change my entire belief system/religion because of your belief system.

Where's the diversity in that?

Those folks don't want diversity. They want everyone to agree with their "enlightened" opinion.

(HT: Spotalicious, Lew)