New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy is killing it in the postseason with five home runs in seven games, but he may soon be regretting some homophobic comments he made when he was less well-known.
During an interview with NJ Advance Media, Murphy had this to say about Major League Baseball Ambassador For Inclusion Billy Bean, who, back in 1999, became the first major league player to come out publicly:
“I disagree with his lifestyle. I do disagree with the fact that Billy is a homosexual. That doesn’t mean I can’t still invest in him and get to know him. I don’t think the fact that someone is a homosexual should completely shut the door on investing in them in a relational aspect. Getting to know him. That, I would say, you can still accept them but I do disagree with the lifestyle, 100 percent.”
With the emergence of out players like Michael Sam and Robbie Rogers, sports organizations are trying to be more inclusive of gay players, and Murphy has been called out by Deadspin and other big names in sports media.
While there have been some rumors about Murphy possibly becoming a Yankee after his Mets contract is up, we wouldn’t bet on it.
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Xzamilio
http://shallowvoices.blogspot.com/2014/04/do-you-agree-with-homosexuality.html
As if it is something you can agree or disagree with… I grow tired of ignoramuses like this, especially when hiding behind the usual excuse of religion. Amazing how much leeway we give people and particular imaginary friends in society, and meanwhile, if I go out buck ass naked in public because my invisible pink martian porcupine told me to, I’d be looked at as a lunatic.
AtticusBennett
low-thinking mouth-breather who is uneducated and uncultured regurgitates the bigotry he learned from his church and makes a complete fool of himself. more at 11.
AtticusBennett
btw “the lifestyle” is Church-Bigot speak. it’s a phrase they use over and over again, in their failed attempt to divorce us from who and what we are.
Juanjo
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. Attributed to Twain or Lincoln but first appearing in print in a book titled “Mrs. Goose, Her Book” by Maurice Switzer which was published in 1906. Regardless of origin this is good advice for folks like Murphy who while having the right to speak out publicly on whatever issue they choose have not yet learned the advisability of being cautious in one’s public speaking.
Xzamilio
@AtticusBennett: Motherfucking +1 for you
Bauhaus
Bigots and homophobes use specific words: lifestyle, meaning choice, and homosexual, meaning behavior – we are supposed to be able to control/suppress both our choice and behavior. If we can’t, we sin. If we sin, they feel justified in condemning and punishing us.
Glücklich
Jock uncomfortable with gays. Tear out the front page!
What odd phrasing: invest in someone in a relational aspect.
@Juanjo:
Love that saying.
SeeingAll
So….what’s the story here ? What am I missing ?
rikard
That is pretty enlightened for a pro sport player. It’s not a ‘lifestyle”, it’s my life, but I do it with style.
Sansacro
Well, it was 16 years ago; maybe he’s “evolved.” Would love to know his thoughts now. Nonetheless, his rhetoric is clearly that of a church disciple who has no understanding of gayness. I, however, don’t know him, so can’t speak to his character.
Sansacro
@rikard: love it
Jonathan Vincenzo Romero V
Daniel,take a message:
alterego1980
@Sansacro: Sorry but Billy Bean came out 16 years ago. Daniel Murphy made those comments earlier this year. I can can pretty much guess how he feels now. The best part was how he almost clinically tried to describe ways to not hate on him as a person…even though he’s gay. Poor Mr. Murphy is so brainwashed.
JackFknTwist
And I disagree with pigs and their lifestyles.
Grow up, ***khead.
drivendervish
Your crazy if you think those comments will cause him any trouble. They’re in the past and not that offensive. He says he disagrees with the lifestyle! So what!
SeeingAll
Will have no effect whatsoever. Playing as well as he does ? And he’s still getting paid millions for playing a kid’s game (which shows how dumb pro sports are). The only interesting question here is : how is someone named Murphy a Protestant ?
Brian
While sexual desire is not a lifestyle choice, the choices that gay-identifying men make are definitely part of their lifestyle. Don’t deny it.
The choice to spend a Saturday night at a “gay bar”, the choice to be promiscuous, the choice to be monogamous, the choice to take drugs, the choice to not take drugs…these are all lifestyle choices.
These choices are NOT unique to gay-identifying men but they are still choices. And, hey, let’s not deny the fact that the choice to be promiscuous is promoted by the gay media. Open up any gay-marketed web site and there are half-naked torsos all over the place.
So let’s stop being precious about comments about the lifestyle choices that gay-identifying men make. Yes, their lives are full of choices – lifestyle choices.
Desert Boy
I could flip Daniel Murphy in 60 minutes.
gaym50ish
I disagree with Murphy’s beard. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Nor does it mean it’s unnatural. It simply means I don’t like it.
Why can’t people say they just don’t like something instead of trying to make it into something that’s a matter of opinion? Nobody’s sexuality is a matter of opinion. It’s just something that exists whether you like it or not.
Arconcyyon
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Xzamilio
@Brian: We could all be milkmaids going to Sunday School and feeding the homeless, and there would STILL be the “disagree with the ‘lifestyle'” bullshit because when it all boils down to the nitty effing gritty, it’s us being physically intimate with men that constitutes the “lifestyle” the homophobic religious ilk so disagree with… it’s a special out that gives them the ability to build a strawman while still looking like they are throwing us a bone.
Please miss me with your apologetics
enlightenone
@Sansacro: “so can’t speak to his character.”
Perhaps reading the FACTS in the article at a minimum would help!
scotshot
@Brian:
Tell me, do heterosexuals “identify” as str8? Is there a str8 “lifestyle”? Do they, like any one else make choices as to how they live their lives? Because a str8 person goes to a bar and is promiscuous does that mean that all str8s are? Doesn’t the media promote the image that a str8 man who sleeps with many different women a stud? You’re painting with a too broad a brush, but you know that.
Get over yourself Brian and go Troll someone else. You’re beyond pedantic.
Now go to church and tell the others like you what a good job you did of really dinging it to the gays.
Gays are born Gay, it’s not some “choice” someone makes. People make lifestyle choices on what religion to follow and to be ignorant when the facts are in front of them. It’s a choice to be a bigot.
Sluggo2007
Yeah, Daniel. OK. Now go and prance naked in the locker room with your teammates and keep your eyes straight ahead, don’t look down.
Brian
@scotshot: You are ridiculous. Nobody is born with a sexual orientation. Sexual desire occurs later on in life. It is innate but it is not something you are born with.
And I don’t back off one iota from the assertion that it is gay-identifying men who love dividing men. For all the gay male talk about the need for society to be inclusive, it is actually gay men themselves who are the least inclusive.
Hypocrisy is a hallmark of gay-identifying men.
Atrius
@Brian: In your examples, you’ve got opposing choices as both examples of a “gay lifestyle”. If any choice, regardless of what they are, is a “lifestyle choice” then planting the word “gay” in font of them is meaningless. There is no such thing as a “gay lifestyle”, there are just choices that everyone makes.
Matrix214
You know……..some of your comments on here are accusing Daniel Murphy of being bigoted and hateful, yet your comments alone are full of hatred and bigotry. Not everyone is going to agree with what you do or how you live your life. GET OVER IT! Some of you self righteous fags are just as bad, if not WORSE than the people you bash, and yet you wonder why there is such a stigma on the gay community. Have you ever thought that maybe YOUR the problem? You say your all for “tolerance and acceptance”, but you are intolerant and unaccepting of those who are different than you.
I am proud to be gay but ashamed of the gay community.
moldisdelicious
@Matrix214:
I disagree with you. I do think that we do fight back when we don’t stoop to his level.
Joe
I disagree with his lifestyle of hatred.
SeeingAll
@Matrix214: I get turned off by the behavior of these posters, too, sometimes. Admittedly, though, those who frequent gay blogs don’t fully represent the gay community. Like with straight people, the bloggers represent the more unreasonable types who are bored and need to vent (myself included).
James Hart
I don’t think that Murphy is a “homophobe.” He has a right to his opinion, just like you do.
scotshot
@Brian:
Prove your allegations. We all wait with bated breath.
While you’re at it, inform us what you are.
scotshot
@Matrix214:
Another heterosexual who feels the need to come here and make judgments. Does coming here make you hot? Do you masturbate.
darkanser
Their saying they disagree with the “lifestyle” is just the mantra repeated by the whole chorus of people who want to believe we’ve chosen to be gay or were turned gay by bad parenting, lack of father/male role model, yada, yada. The school of thought that homosexuality is a pathology has many manifestations. The fear that gays “recruit” and seduce young people into the lifestyle is one. That the acceptance of gay marriage will create a flood of people giving up on traditional/heterosexual marriage to embrace the alternative is yet another. I once had a sympathetic acquaintance who associated being gay with alcoholism — in other words, it’s a disease. You’d think that many people should know that there are people who are transgendered, some who are born with ambiguous genitalia, others bisexual in addition to those who are gay. So why it’s so inconceivable to some people that other people can be born gay is beyond me. All you can do is continue to educate and hope for the best.
Sluggo2007
Another uneducated jock who should put his brain in gear before he opens his mouth. Great baseball player, though.
SeeingAll
@Sluggo2007: About Bean he said : “….That doesn’t mean I can’t still invest in him and get to know him.” and “you can still accept them but I do disagree with the lifestyle, 100%.” Is this all THAT big a deal ? His views probably represent many others out there. So why not let him get to know you, and change his views, instead of wishing him harm like the Queerty crowd does ?
1dizzy1
We satanic gays must have put teh Hallowe’en hex on Murphy!
martinbakman
Met’s collapse after Murphy error, top of the 12th. Royals are World Champs. Murphy still just a chump.