Like a sudden festering outbreak of genital warts, the Benham brothers are rearing their matching heads again.
While speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville last week, the twin homophobes claimed that they healed an unruly gay man of his homosexual desires… by offering him tickets to a Cubs game.
“We had so many people from the gay community reaching out to us and one man in particular from the city of Chicago reached out,” David Benham said during a panel discussion about religious liberty. “He said things to me that made me lose my appetite. But I simply responded in love.”
“After a little conversation back and forth, I found out he loved baseball … and I got him tickets to a Cubs game,” Benham continued. “He shot me a Facebook post and said, ‘I was not expecting that — and I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I’ve chosen to walk away from my lifestyle.’”
Isn’t that great?
The crowd certainly thought so. They responded by applauding the twins, who then proceeded to blabber on about religious freedom and their fear that so many Americans have begun to “slowly turn our back on God,” which is why it is up to them to bravely stand up and defend the Christian faith.
“Love filled our heart,” Benham said. “We had absolutely no hatred.”
Except when it comes to gay people.
“The right to speak freely means jack squat if we don’t have the courage to speak boldly!” Jason Benham added.
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Ladbrook
I’m sorry, but they really do strike me as self-hating closet cases. I’ve seen them interviewed on television, and every time I find myself thinking, “they like dick.”
Giancarlo85
These guys are terrible liars and buffoons. I’m glad their show got canned before it even aired. And what religious freedom is under threat? These fools have the freedom to make themselves look dumb.
This isn’t a religious country. This is a secular country. Have whatever religious views you want, but don’t push it on the rest of us.
Can’t stand these two bigots.
Kathukid
That story has got to be complete bullshit.
AtticusBennett
it’s a total lie, of course. key word: “LIFESTYLE” – that’s what bigots say. there is no gay lifestyle, of course. only anti-gay bigots say there is, and the wannabe-ex-gay wimps who cower before them.
and yeah, whaddya wanna bet the two of them were caught blowing each other when they were boys and this whole charade is one big “We’re not gay, we HATE gays!” attempt to atone? LOL
they’re pathetic. but they’ll die on the wrong side of history. so it’s ok.
http://littlekiwilovesbauhaus.blogspot.ca/2014/07/stop-being-part-of-problem-not-solution.html
Dakotahgeo
Methinks these Benham Brat boys have been hit in the belfries with a bat, and not the winged type either!
jwtraveler
I don’t know who these guys are, but a couple of tickets to a Lady Gaga concert might cure them of whatever they’re afflicted with.
Lvng1Tor
Sh!t I just got my queer organization 30 tickets to a basketball game… OH…and what @AtticusBennett: said.
SpunkyBunks
I’m a huge soccer fan. I still like balls!
hyhybt
This shirt suddenly seems appropriate to bring up:
http://www.queerty.com/chicago-cubs-will-look-into-vulgar-shirts-being-sold-at-wrigley-20090714
demented
This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard today. Not ever, not even this week… just today.
mydude
@Ladbrook:
Agreed. It’s pathetic, though.
Cam
Anybody else get the feeling that these two will be appearing in “Twin Porn” in another year or two to pay the bills?
Desert Boy
“We had so many people from the gay community reaching out to us …”
Liar, liar pants on fire. I don’t believe a word these two nitwits say. They’re full of shit.
Milk
Were they campaigning for a baseball team in Alabama?
muscl954
I can’t wait until their fall from grace. A leaked photo of dick sucking or sex with a (male)hooker would be most likely.
gjg64
Well, as a born and bred St. Louis Cardinals fan, baseball is no more a sign of hetrosexuality than anything. Now, being a Cubs fan is just a sign of a looser.
Paul Nadolski
I’ve been to Minnesota Twins and Milwaukee Brewers games and I’m still gay, so there goes that theory…
AxelDC
“…religious freedom and their fear that so many Americans have begun to “slowly turn our back on God””
I hate to tell you this guys, but religious freedom means you have the right to turn your back on God if you want to. Forcing people to church is theocracy, which is the opposite of religious freedom. Freedom from religion is just as important as freedom of worship.
As for baseball, I guess you don’t know about gay days at most MLB parks.
Jason Jehosephat
“They responded by applauding the twins, who then proceeded to blabber on about religious freedom and their fear that so many Americans have begun to “slowly turn our back on God,” …”. In other words, they fear Americans who exercise their religious freedom to think differently from them.
asby
But the Cubs suck….And i live in Chicago and on Sheffield
tomron
@Giancarlo85: Maybe this is a secular country, but in too many states, the so called ‘states rights’ bigots insist it is a Christian country, and push their drivel into politics and eventually law. Somehow, we have to make the stated separation of church and state a reality in ALL 50 states!
robho3
These guys are ridiculous
Giancarlo85
@tomron: You’re right… and scary enough… this is already happening in at least one state.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-usa-idaho-christian-idUSKBN0LS2Q020150224
What these fools didn’t realize is that the US isn’t based on the Declaration of Independence, but rather the Constitution. In addition, the Treaty of Tripoli strictly forbids any such action.
They want to force religion into government and declare Idaho a “christian state”. Never mind this is in direct violation of the US constitution.
States rights this, states rights that… same old excuse to use for bigotry.
I wonder BJ Frisky is right now… why he isn’t here defending these right wingers.
wpewen
Now that somebody mentioned it, yeah looks like some homosexuality going on with THEM. They talk about it, they’re high on visuals. They may want a baseball player up their ass. The photo says two gay guys to me, or somehow actually straight but Jonesed out on males. Like the Marines, really like male like the rest of us. They need to be humped hard.
GG
“Benham [said] ‘He shot me a Facebook post and said, ‘I was not expecting that — and I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I’ve chosen to walk away from my lifestyle.’’”
Benham misunderstood. The poster was declaring he was walking away from a life of promiscuity – because after the baseball game he ‘met’ one of the ball players. They are planning a September wedding.
Xzamilio
Yeah… not buying it. Seeing Ken Griffey, Jr. in his baseball outfit is what cemented my homosexuality, as far as I’m concerned. The ass on that man is stupid lovely!!! Baseball is the last place a gay man would turn straight… a bunch of jacked up dude in tight uniforms, hugging those powerful legs and thighs and glutes like a hug from baby Jesus?? Man, please… and football. Don’t even. I only started appreciating the game a few years ago. Before that, it was the only way I could spank it, especially if Real Sex on HBO wasn’t playing that night.
seniceguy64
I once took a straight ?? guy to a Redsox game and them had sex with him in his Mini van after the game while his wife called his cell phone numerous times did the game make him gay?? I always thought it was the 8 beers he had ??
Bryguyf69
Oh my… the opposite was true for me. Baseball almost turned me gay. Well, not really, but it did awaken feelings I didn’t know I had. And it wasn’t really baseball, but baseball porn. When I was an undergrad, I worked as a media archivist on a study involving porn (both gay and straight). It was fascinating to compare the 1950s stuff to the 2000s, but it was mostly a job. When I got to the Gay 80’s stuff, however, curiosity got the best of me and I watched, These Bases Are Loaded. I now know that is considered a classic, and one of the best gay porn movies ever made. All I could say is, WOW! Is that what my parents’ gay friends were doing I was born??? There was even tenderness and kissing, which wasn’t what I expected. The locker room masturbation orgy was epic. Although I never did turn gay, I won’t deny (nor confirm) that I pleasured myself at least once thinking about it. Maybe we should send the Benhams a copy…
IMDB Ratings: 7.3/10 from 41 users
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291512/
Video excerpts and screen captures (NOT work safe)
http://www.mansurfer.com/video/12262/these-bases-are-loaded
Video excerpts and screen captures (NOT work safe)
http://www.myvidster.com/video/21404223/These_Bases_Are_Loaded_1982
polarisfashion
I love love love to watch Ohio State Football. I’m still as gay as I ever was. I also used to watch pro wrestling with my ex bf back in the day. We even went to Nationwide Arena to watch a taping of Smack down. Sorry but we are still gay.
Bryguyf69
@Bryguyf69: I just watched that 2nd link and must ay that I didn’t realize how explicit it was when I posted it. Again, I warn: THE SECOND LINK IS NOT WORK SAFE (UNLESS YOU WORK IN GAY PORN). DO NOT WATCH AT WORK.
Then again, you can always take a 5 min bathroom break with your smartphone in hand… 🙂
rikard
it’s like Malcom Mcdowell in Clockwork Orange was not sinister enough, so they cloned him and halved his intellect.
Saint Law
They look like ventriloquist dolls.
Saint Law
But yeah they’re obv gayer than a flaming fairy cake.
Low Country Boy
The problem with this site is that there are no “Likes” and “Don’t Like” features. It would weed out the BS.
Alan down in Florida
The Cubs suck and percentages say they do a lot more than that off the field.
Chris
Two words for these twins: Billy Bean
Bryguyf69
@Chris: I have Billy Bean’s leather batting glove and sniff it nightly. Just kidding. I do have it but no, I don’t sniff it. It’s stored in a ziploc bag with an autographed copy of Dave Pallone’s (the first openly gay umpire) autobioography.
If you really wanna get kinky for the Benham bros, give them a session with former Cleveland Indians pitcher, Kazuhito Tadano.
http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=1615
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Cleveland Indians minor leaguer has gay porn past
After being blacklisted in the Japanese draft, player is getting a second chance
by Travis D. Bone, Sports Reporter
Published Thursday, 18-Dec-2003 in issue 834
A rising star in the Cleveland Indians baseball organization is coming clean about his past and why he was passed over in the Japanese baseball draft. Kazuhito Tadano, a 23-year-old right-handed pitcher, has come out to teammates, admitting that while attending college in Japan he appeared in a gay porn video. Tadano was the ace pitcher for his Rikkyou Daigaku University team, with a 92 mph fastball, good control and a nice slider. The promising young pitcher was in line to be one of the top prospects in the Japanese draft, with the Yokohama BayStars planning to draft him in the first round. But when tabloids released photos in a story exposing his involvement in the gay porn industry, teams began to pass him over in the draft to avoid any controversy.
“The commissioner in Japan came forward and told teams not to draft him,” his agent, Alan Nero, said in an interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “If that had happened in the United States, well, we have more attorneys here than they have people in Japan. But in Japan he was quietly banned from Japanese baseball.”
According to Nero, who has strong ties to the Asian baseball market, his client would have been the first or second pick in the draft and received a signing bonus between $2 million and $2.5 million. However, because of the controversy he ended up signing with the Cleveland Indians (after being passed over by the Padres, Braves, and Twins) for a mere $67,000 minor-league contract.
Over the course of his first season playing ball in the United States he chose to explain to teammates the controversy surrounding his past and get the issue out on the table to prevent rumors. Tadano held meetings with both of his teams, the Class A Kinston Indians and later the Class AA Akron Aeros, to explain his reasons for doing the gay porn.
Tadano, who says he is straight, told teammates that he appeared in the video as a 19-year-old freshman because he needed money. He received between $750 and $1,000 for his part in the film, and explained through a translator, “At the time it was a lot of money.”
Tadano, now 23, comes from a middle-class family in Tokyo where his mother works in real estate and his father is self-employed. In college Tadano said he did not have a baseball scholarship and needed money to live.
“I apologized to the team,” said Tadano. “I want to apologize to the fans and all the people who have supported me. I made a big mistake. All I can do now is play baseball and move forward.”
Cleveland Indians pitcher Jack Cressend, who was in Akron recovering from shoulder surgery when Tadano met with the team, said, “I told everyone that I felt we needed to support this guy. I thought we should give him a chance to be our teammate and friend…. We’ve all messed up in some shape or form in our life.”
Torey Lovullo, manager of the Class A Kinston Indians, was present during that team’s meeting and said, “Watching how our guys reacted to Kaz, how they encouraged him and supported him, was one of the most emotional moments I’ve ever had in baseball.”
While in college, Tadano pitched four years at Rikkyo University, going 20-14 with 334 strikeouts as a starter, and earned a degree in travel and tourism.
In the minors this season, Tadano saw most of his action as a relief pitcher, going 2-1 with two saves and a 1.89 ERA in seven games at Kinston. When he was promoted to Akron, Tadano went 4-1 with three saves. At the end of the season he was sent to Class AAA at Buffalo, the Indians top farm team, and in two appearances allowed three runs in seven innings. For the season, Tadano went 6-2 with five saves and a 1.55 ERA in 40 appearances, striking out 112, walking 22 and allowing 81 hits in 98 innings.
Despite his outstanding rookie performance and positive reactions from his teammates in the minors, skeptics are quick to point out that the majors may not be so friendly to Tadano.
“We know what guys say with a microphone in front of him or a note pad,” nationally syndicated sports radio talk show host Jim Rome said, editorializing on his website. “So we can only imagine what really is being discussed in clubhouses.… A baseball clubhouse is one of the last bastions of bigotry and intolerance. That’s not going to fly. You wait and see what happens when he gets to the Majors. Not all of us have made gay porn and there are more Todd Jones and John Rockers than Mark Graces in big league clubhouses. More so than anyone wants to admit.”
Just this past season, Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Todd Jones, commenting on the Tony Award winning Broadway play Take Me Out, in which a major league player comes out and says he is gay, said there was no place for an openly gay player in the big leagues. While the Rockies made Jones apologize for the statement, he stood by his word, saying that a gay player would be a distraction to a team.
Zenguy
@AtticusBennett: It’s ignorant to refer to one’s sexual orientation as a lifestyle. It’s even more disturbing when gay people use the term. Gay lifestyle? Straight lifestyle? It’s a meaningless and detrimental term. A lifestyle is a particular choice, sexuality isn’t. The lifestyles of gay people are as widely varied as straight people, and everyone in between. It’s not a package deal.
pattygale
I’m trying to see if it works the other way, too. I’m watching RuPaul’s Drag Race and lifting weights, wonder if I wake up gay tomorrow!
Xzamilio
@Zenguy: Why are you saying that to Atticus in such a defensive way? It’s pretty clear he knows that, and his blog is a glaring “Fuck you” to idiots who keep using that idiotic misnomer of “lifestyle” with us.
@AtticusBennett: You’re good shit. I’m sorry I was an insufferable asswipe to you.
jwtraveler
Fact it guys: if you really thought they were gay, you’d be drooling over them. You’re only saying they look gay because you think it’s an insult. (I gotta say I still don’t understand why gay men accuse homophobes of being gay to insult them. It just sounds like self-hatred to me.)
Tracy Pope
Dear Benham brothers, Please buy me season tickets to the SF Giants and I’ll let you know at the end of the season if it made me a heterosexual.
Chris
@jwtraveler: I don’t see it as an insult in calling someone gay as a result of what they say or do; I think the insult lies in the implication that they are closeted and self-loathing.
Saint Law
@jwtraveler: The self hatred is theirs you prawn. We accuse them of being gay because they very very often are.
Xzamilio
Sigh… these two don’t even warrant that masochistic worship of bigoted monster-in-manscaping Aaron Schock
http://shallowvoices.blogspot.com/2015/03/long-rant-bend-it-like-benham-brothers.html
gjg64
@asby: My condolences. I used to walk up Clark St. to Boystown in my Cards jersey, get taunted with “Cardinal Fans Take It Up The Puljos!” (so both anti-Cards and anti-Gay). I just replied that I’ve been to World Series games, my parents went to World Series games, and that my grandparents went to World Series games…….their great grandparents went to World Series games. And then I told them I take other tings! They apologized.
Low Country Boy
Stop giving asshats like these any publicity.
Sluggo2007
“Benham Brothers Claim Baseball Tickets Are The Remedy To Homosexuality” I’m so glad that HGTV came up with a remedy for the Benham Brothers. Makes me smile.
jag4313
I LOVE baseball! Give me free tickets and I’ll tell you anything you wanna hear.
Ladbrook
CHARLOTTE UPHOLDS DISCRIMINATION… BENHAM BROTHERS WIN:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article11908907.html
Hateful and tragic, but the fight goes on.
hyhybt
@Ladbrook: Sad… but the way other states have been passing laws to void local nondiscrimination ordinances anyway, it probably doesn’t matter in the long run.
hoosier1969
He may have had the last laugh….go to game. After it is over turn east on Addison….go three blocks….voila…..BOYSTOWN! Whoops, just fell “straight” off the wagon 😉
Suburban
Seriously??