Three Cheers for ESPN Reporter Chris Broussard

from Stand Firm by Sarah

One of the most amusing displays in the continuing efforts of gay activists has been the past several months of breathless speculation about Who Is Gay in the NBA. Media activists for All Things Gay spent hours and seas of ink engaging in “news stories” about What Would Happen When The Gay NBA Guy Came Out. The articles were hilarious, and almost none of them predicted the collective yawn that occurred when a guy nobody had ever heard of “came out”—rather near the completion of his current contract too. Depressingly—for the media activists—the player wasn’t even remotely close to a star, so months of lurid and vacuous articles were essentially wasted. Their only recourse was to claim that the lack of interest was a sign of the Great Strides Gays Have Made—although indifference doesn’t usually represent Great Strides except for people who have nothing to grasp for.

But ... one of the nice things to come out of this was the discovery of Chris Broussard, who showed actual courage, rather than “I’ve got nothing better to do but pretend like people will care about my sexual interests” courage. Check out USA Today’s take on Broussard and make certain you read the entire short piece:

One of the main reporters on the story for ESPN, NBA insider Chris Broussard, who was covering it for Sportscenter all day, was not one of them. As the network switched formats for its weekday segment of Outside the Lines, Broussard transformed from reporter to panelist, where his personal beliefs (which as Deadspin points out, he’s expressed before) were brought into the discussion:

“Personally I don’t believe that you can live an openly homosexual lifestyle or an openly premarital sex between heterosexuals,” Broussard said.  ”If you’re openly living that type of lifestyle, the Bible says you know them by their fruits, it says that’s a sin. If you’re openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it may be. I think that’s walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I don’t think the Bible would characterize them as a Christian.”