Canadian football player Christion Jones has just learned the hard way that sometimes actions have consequences.
The running back for the Edmonton Eskimos is officially out of a job after he had a totally unprovoked homophobic meltdown on Twitter over the weekend.
It all started Sunday evening when Jones shared his unsolicited opinions about same-sex sexual relations in a since-deleted tweet.
“Ima keep it this real … Man ain’t suppose to be with a man. A woman is not supposed to be with another woman,” he wrote at 7:57 p.m. on June 27. “THATS ME THO! Live life with safety.”
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He followed that up with several more tweets, including one in which he stated he didn’t care if his homophobic beliefs got him fired.
“People understand that I don’t care about getting fired standing on what I stand on,” he wrote.
They trying to get me fired now!!. A black man giving his opinion on Twitter is sickening for many.
People understand that I don’t care about getting fired standing on what I stand on.
An opinion is obligated.
— Christion Jones (@jonessboyy) June 28, 2020
When people called on Jones to apologize, he refused, defiantly tweeting, “I will never apologize. Thank you tho bro.”
I never will apologize. Thank you tho bro https://t.co/TaCLQ2EzLM
— Christion Jones (@jonessboyy) June 28, 2020
The Canadian Football League wasted no time distancing itself Jones, letting people know it did not share the views of their now-former employee.
“Our league makes no claim on perfection but it does strive to be inclusive, to accept and indeed celebrate our differences, and to respect and honour human rights,” the league said the next day.
“We in the CFL hold high the Diversity Is Strength banner. Our league makes no claim on perfection but it does strive to be inclusive, to accept and indeed celebrate our differences, and to respect and honour human rights… 1/2 #DiversityIsStrength
— CFL (@CFL) June 28, 2020
In a followup tweet, the league added: “There is no place in our league for commentary that disparages people on the basis of their religion, race, gender or sexual orientation. As Pride Month continues, we stand with the LGBTQ+ community. We all need to say no to hate and yes to love.”
There is no place in our league for commentary that disparages people on the basis of their religion, race, gender or sexual orientation. As Pride Month continues, we stand with the LGBTQ+ community. We all need to say no to hate and yes to love.” 2/2 #DiversityIsStrength
— CFL (@CFL) June 28, 2020
Eventually, Jones did issue an apology, saying he was “wrong” for sending the tweet.
“My words were deeply hurtful, painful and served zero purpose,” he tweeted. “I sincerely apologize. I was wrong.”
From Janis Irwin. “This is an opportunity for growth.” She is absolutely right. My words were deeply hurtful, painful and served zero purpose. I added to the struggle of a community, to live a life free of oppression of any kind. I sincerely apologize. I was wrong. ??
— Christion Jones (@jonessboyy) June 28, 2020
Zero purpose, indeed.
Apparently, Jones’ apology was a little too little too late because minutes later, the Eskimos announced he had been cut from the team’s roster.
Good thing he didn’t care about being fired, right?
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Chrisk
1. I don’t care if I get fired. This is about standing up for my beliefs!
2. Disagreeing with me is Racism!!
3. Realizes what this means..$$$.. I’m so sorry….please take me back!!!
Bye bye tough guy. Lol
Jared MacBride
Maybe he’s suffering from ARH – advanced repressed homosexuality.
Cam
“”Apparently, Jones’ apology was a little too little too late because minutes later, the Eskimos announced he had been cut from the team’s roster.””
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Is it wrong to hope that some shady queen in the team’s office said “To save your job apologize”, then after he did they said “Nahhhh, just kidding!”.
Seriously though, who but a closet queen, with zero provocation and for no reason goes on some anti-LGBTQ rant? Sounds like he’s so deep in the closet he sees Mr. Tumnis.
Black Pegasus
@Cam
I am so sick of y’all attempting to claim every homophobe as “secretly gay” in 2020. Is it possible that some heterosexual men are actually ANTI GAY & HOMOPHOBIC without secretly lusting for a d!ck? That tired trope is self hating and dangerous. Please end it and accept the fact that plenty of straight people are still filled with hate.
Cam
@Black Pegasus
Interesting, the same account that consistently defends right wing anti-LGBTQ bigots seems really enraged that I pointed out what studies say and that is that rabid homophobes very often turn out to be self hating closet cases.
Your act is tired.
MrMichaelJ
@Black Pegasus
You can look up ANY accredited study done on homophobia. They ALL conclude homophobia in men is a clear cut sign of unwanted same sex attraction.
If you need help in figuring out how Google works just let me know. Until then either Google the studies or just sit down and STFU already.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Cam you know I love you, but I agree with BP (I can’t believe it either) – I think 90% of homophobic men are straight: they hate us, fear us, think we’re “gender traitors”, predators, want to “turn” them gay too.
The fear that I have, is that by perpetuating that homophobic men by enlarge are closet cases, is going to wash the hands of homophobic straight men of our oppression – It’s the exact same type of argument that racists use against black folks when they bring up “black on black crime”.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@ MrMichaelJ
Here in Canada, the studies done on male homophobia concludes that its a mixture of factors that play into male dislike or fear of gay men, ranging from male patriarchal structure, enforcement of gender roles, fear of being pursued, to religious beliefs and indeed self loathing of closeted men who don’t want to be gay.
I imagine, in the United States, we would find a similar conclusions.
Black Pegasus
@MrMichael
F’ YOU and your accredited studies! And don’t you dare address me again unless I call upon you!
Cam
Hi @Hussain-TheCanadian
I’m basing my statements on studies like this one published on the American Psychological Association where they determined that homophobes are much more likely to be LGBTQ than the wider population. Very often due to a reaction against growing up fearing bigotry etc.. (I put in spaces in the link because Queerty blocks links.
https: // psycnet.apa .org/record/2012-02599-001
DarkZephyr
@Cam, I echo what Hussain-TheCanadian said. Love ya Bro, but I AM gonna have to agree with Black Pegasus on this one too. There are more than plenty of straight men who hate us. There aren’t ENOUGH gay men in existence to explain how widespread homophobia is if its mostly closeted gay men who are homophobic.
Sometimes “studies” are wrong. They tried using “studies” to deny us marriage equality, didn’t they? And where did this fear of bigotry come from in the first place with the closeted self loathing? More closeted gays? We gays created this entire cycle of hatred and homophobia for ourselves? Did we write the Bible then, too? Were we also the cops we rioted against at Stonewall? Were we the jury that allowed Dan White to get off on the twinkie defense? Did we vote against ourselves in 2008 with Prop 8 in California?
There are far more straights than there are gays. We didn’t do this to ourselves.
Homophobia didn’t form in a vacuum. Those closeted gays who ARE rabid homophobes (and certainly they DO exist, I do not deny that at all) didn’t become rabid homophobes out of the blue. They learned their homophobia from someone else.
Black Pegasus
@ DarkZephyr
@ Hussain-TheCanadian
Thank you both for understanding my point. I think it’s short sided and lowkey self hating to label every heterosexual homophobe as a closeted gay. It’s the knee jerk reaction the LGBT community seem to reach for when confronting bigotry.
Cam
@DarkZephyr
My point isn’t that a lot of bigots aren’t straight. My point is that to a lot of straight bigots, we are an afterthought. They don’t spend all their time thinking about us. If somebody ask them how they feel about LGBTQ people they will say something bigoted.
But people that go out of their ways to talk about us, think about us, etc… THOSE people can’t get us out of their heads. Like George Reckers who started the Family Research Council and wrote many anti_LGBTQ books, gets caught with a male prostitute.
This guy wasn’t responding to a question, if he had, I wouldn’t have thought the same thing, he just came out of the blue, for no reason, and with no prompting and started rambling about us. That to me sounds like he has gay voices in his head haunting him, and sounds like those other rabid homophobes that keep going ON AND ON about us, before getting caught in a photo in a gay bar. 😉
Chrisk
Cam
You’ve made some good points. However, black culture is still largely homophobic. Ask any rapper what he thinks of gays and you’ll get a similar response.
Amalgamate
Black Pegassass- sorry dumdum but most studies show hating gays for no reason and with such passion usually means the man wants dick. Sadly, some ignorant blacks are brainwashed by religion and come across as quite savage and ignorant. This dummy thinks he’s white! Poor token is now unemployed. He should know better. We aren’t tolerating bigotry from whites- we certainly ain’t taking it from a person of color. Uppity indeed
Kangol2
Girl, bye!
justgeo
Ain’t ’bout being black it is about being a DUMB ASS FOOL!
marshal phillips
He played the race card as a pass to speak hate ’bout the gays.
Didn’t work. Bye, bro.
jmg619
When will they learn. And now that he got fired he’s running back (get it?) with his tail between his legs issuing an apology. Whatever bro!
ptb2016
What is the matter with this guy? One minority showing hate of another out of some learned hate, doubtless from a religious upbringing he didn’t understand. Christianity is about love one another after all, no exceptions for race, sex or sexual orientation. Serves the guy right getting fired. Hope other loud mouthed ignorant homophobes out there are listening.
moretruth
Moreover, spelling Christian as “Christion” must be a sin and possibly the sign of pure evil.
Skip
Yeah, and he must’ve inherited his parents’ spelling chops, too!
Queerty actually misquoted him when claiming he wrote “A woman is not supposed to be with another woman.” … pea-brains actually wrote “A women is not suppose to be with another women.” — that’s three stupid mistakes in one short, idiotic sentence. Ouch!
fur_hunter
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Wonder what he’s trying to cover up? Is it possible he’s a latent closet case???? Am I glad he got fired? If you don’t know the answer, you’re an Imbecile.
irbaboon
@ptb2016
christianity is a very homophobic religion
eeebee333
He seems like an ass. But, I don’t think someone should get fired for expressing a personal opinion on their personal social media account.
nitejonboy
If I hear one more person say Christianity is a loving religion I’m gonna scream…look at all of history and you’ll see the opposite…The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Columbus, the Salem Witch Trials, etc. etc. etc…just because the bible says ” Love thy neighbor ” doesn’t mean Christians and those running the church actually do!! It is time for people to learn to love God without being bound by religion. Religion is nothing but man made dogma, and it has gotten people killed for a millennia. And wasn’t the King James bible compiled by a raging queen ??
RyanMBecker
I’m pretty sure that apology wasn’t written by him. It’s way too intelligently written, both in contents and language. Just compare it with his other tweets. I bet that it was written by some rep of the team or his personal management. As such, this man deserves no sympathy or second chances.
G R
“They trying to get me fired now”, I thought exactly the same thing; the apology was written by someone else.
Ronbo
The poor man was likely raised in a culturally-disadvantaged environment that actually encourages bigotry. Maybe the cultural environment needs to be changed … fix the problem, not the symptom.
darkanser
The comments he made shown in this article were – relatively speaking — anticlimactic. I was expecting something far more vitriolic. I don’t know why he felt the need to make a public statement. It’s not like he got quoted I gather. He went on twitter. Something triggered this outburst.
G R
SO much poor grammar in what Jones tweeted, then there’s the anti-gay shit so BYE.
ThinkPlease
He seems nice. And willing to throw the race card when challenged. Good riddance there, Mr. Jones. Enjoy obscurity.
TimberWolf
So why not fire this racist hater? after all television fired Rosanne? so what makes his hate any different or is the media afraid of offending him and fear or riots?
Yooper
BLM
Neoprene
Christion, Ima happy you got fired.
Evji108
There is no way to know what lies in the hearts of homophobic men. Whatever the reason for their hate and discrimination it’s high time they either get past it or get out of the way. There is an enormous reservoir of learned homophobia in the cesspit of Christianity and a huge amount of blame can be placed there compounded by multiple other factors.
Evji108
@Chrisk. The main source of homophobia in the black community is primarily Christianity. Africans came as slaves and lost their true African religion by Christianity being imposed upon them by their slave-owning overlords. It’s ironic that they still cling to the religion of the oppressors.
Evji108
@Yooper
Black LGBT matters too