Amid the current coronavirus crisis, people around the world are taking precautions.
And then there’s Margaret Court, the tennis champion notorious for her homophobic views.
According to Australia’s 7 News, Court’s church believes the “blood of Jesus” will protect it from the pandemic.
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“We are in agreement that this Convid-19 [sic] will not come near our dwelling or our church family,” Victory Life Centre said in a statement posted to its website. “We are praying daily for you, knowing that we are all protected by the Blood of Jesus.”
(In a Facebook video posted on March 13, however, Victory Life Centre Pastor Marika Court, Magaret’s daughter, told parishioners that antibacterial gel would be available and asked parishioners to stay home if they exhibited flu-like symptoms.)
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Margaret Court, the founder and senior minister of the church, rose to fame as a tennis player in the 1960s and still holds the greatest number of women’s Grand Slam singles wins.
In recent years, she has made headlines for her homophobic views. In 2017, for example, she advocated for a boycott of Qantas because the airline had “become an active promoter for same sex.” And in 2012, she spoke out against “abominable sexual practices,” including homosexuality.
JessPH
I hope she gets the virus, dies, and be forgotten forever.
Josh447
That sounds like divine justice. Love it.
julian361363
Agree!
Harley
Yea. She just guaranteed she will be the first to come down with it, after spreading it Typhoid Mary like to her entire congregation.
boymikefl
You know, I think most believe in A God. But, when you start talking about blood & fear & plain crazy talk, that doesn’t fly with me. God is love, move on. Use sanitizer, bitch.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
This vile miserable abhorrent noxious crunt is the epitome of the hypocrisies of those who shield their hatred and bigotry with the excuse of religion
She is a demented nasty old puddle of puke, am sure there hasn’t been anything but dust in her rancid vagina for decades ..
A perfect candidate for a never-ending epic yeast infection….
Josh447
Yeah we’ll have to keep an eye on the number of infections they get in their congregation. That whole blood of Jesus bs doesn’t fly for any reason. It’s just silly. There is an ET no interference rule when it comes to physical stuff here on Earth. Everybody knows THAT. Haha
toddfashion
She is an evil vile woman.
Keep rooting for Serena to win one more major, she will then break the record this hag holds and out her on her way to oblivion
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I kind of sort agree with you in one way. But I really don’t want Serena to win another title she was in New York during the US open a couple years ago a restaurant owner comped her a $400 meal what did she do? She walked out and stiffed the staff this is a woman gas won over a hundred million dollars in her career she came from working-class family from the projects and she walks out and doesn’t leave a dime for the wait staff she’s an ungrateful bitch
Reuben
Guys Serena is a bully and doesn’t have anything to credit her as an ally to LGBT.I have my money on Nadal and Novak and they for sure are allies and are still winning.
Cam
Serena has never attacked us, and this woman has done nothing BUT attack us. If anybody is the bully it’s Margaret Court
Cam
This is why I hope Serena Williams wins at least one more grand slam.
This vile racist bigot will be furious over the fact that she lost her record to a black woman. The only think that would cause a bigger meltdown is if Serena was married to a woman.
MikeM
Serena has to win two in order to break her singles record of 24 titles. Serena currently has 23. No one could likely touch her overall record of 64 titles factoring in doubles and mixed doubles, unfortunately.
Cam
@MikeM
Even getting the same number as Court would piss her off so I’m good with that.
As for Court’s title number, remember, she got her titles before the Open era. So the Australian Open wasn’t a big international slam that people traveled to. It was just some tournament that mostly Australians played in.
MikeM
Exactly. Not many players played the Australian Open because it was so close to Christmas and there weren’t direct flights to Australia. I read somewhere that at one point you could only get to Australia by boat and the trip itself would take two weeks. There were years when Chris Evert and Martina didn’t play, either. They each have 18, so imagine if they had.