Tennis Legend Margaret Court Condemns Gay Marriage, Calls Homosexuality 'Abominable'
Australian tennis legend Margaret Court, now a pastor in Perth's Victory Life Church, is not happy with the push to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia and is speaking out against it, The West Australian reports:
The Rev. Court urged Australians to make a stand against gay marriage, saying no human law could ever change God's divine laws. The Rev. Court, who is regarded as the greatest female player of all time, believes Australia needs to wake up as a nation to protect future generations. "Politically correct education has masterfully escorted homosexuality out from behind closed doors, into the community openly and now is aggressively demanding marriage rights that are not theirs to take," she said.
Said Court: "They are not perfect, often dysfunctional and despite the fact the role models may be distorted and even severely flawed, there is no reason to put forward alternative, unhealthy, unnatural unions as some form of substitute. No amount of legislation or political point-scoring can ever take out of the human heart the knowledge that in the beginning God created them male and female and provided each with a unique sexual function to bring forth new life. To dismantle this sole definition of marriage and try to legitimise what God calls abominable sexual practices that include sodomy, reveals our ignorance as to the ills that come when society is forced to accept law that violates their very own God-given nature of what is right and what is wrong."
Court won 24 Grand Slam titles over the course of her career.
Never heard of her - and why should I care now?
She's irrelevant.
Posted by: John | Dec 6, 2011 11:15:20 PM
Court has no right to say those horrible things about other human beings. I believe she is a lesbian in denial and therefore full of hatred and envy towards those who have the courage to be truthful to themselves and to the world. Lola Neilley
Posted by: Lola Neilley | Dec 6, 2011 11:59:08 PM
As a Perthite, I've had to listen to this mad old woman's ranting for years (she pops up every now and then with a bleeding Jesus statue or a "face of Jesus on a muffin"); plus her brother-in-law, our ex-Premier, is a huge closet case...
Posted by: Wirrrn | Dec 7, 2011 12:05:10 AM
Mixing with lesbian players left a bad taste in her mouth.
Posted by: Basil Brush | Dec 7, 2011 12:31:31 AM
@fahd, no.
Posted by: luke | Dec 7, 2011 1:19:41 AM
Margaret Court's Grand Slam record is severely skewered by the fact that her 11 Australian Open titles were won mainly when none of the good players could be bothered to travel all the way down there to compete.
Court hates the fact that an out lesbian like Navratilova is seen as a better player than her by the vast majority of tennis historians. Court's nasty remarks about Navratilova in 1990 came a day after Martina had won a record-setting 9 Wimbledon titles. That really pissed off Court who only managed three. Bitter, old closet-case.
Posted by: Paul | Dec 7, 2011 2:27:05 AM
Dear, the dustbin of history is wide-open and ready to collect people like you. Do hurry and jump in, won't you?
Posted by: justinw | Dec 7, 2011 7:00:13 AM
Silly Australian Margaret Court. She looks like Maggie Gallagher of NOM.
Posted by: jason | Dec 7, 2011 7:18:58 AM
Where on Earth does she get the idea that same-sex marriage is a substitute or alternative to heterosexual marriage?
So if you are rubbish at heterosexual marriage someone is recommending you try a same-sex marriage instead.
Posted by: Urmensch | Dec 7, 2011 7:31:46 AM
Yet another person of the cloth who claims to represent all Christians and all Christianity.
Posted by: Jon Mitchell | Dec 7, 2011 12:22:40 PM
Now I really wish that the word “legend” only to be used for those who no longer are amongst the living. I mean, I really want her to be that kind of “legend”.
Posted by: Lexxvs | Dec 7, 2011 1:01:40 PM
Her opinions should not count for anything simply because she won a few slams a few hundred years ago....for every Court, we've got a Navratilova and a Billie Jean King!
Posted by: Sam | Dec 7, 2011 1:19:19 PM
biblically speaking, "Sodomy" is not a sex act but a mindset in which one hoards wealth and provisions for themselves and does not share with those who are going without.
That's something you learn when you actually read the bible, and the story of Sodom. not one mention of "gay" or "homosexual" in the whole damned thing. Ezekiel 16 - the sin was GREED.
this woman reveals she has ignorance on the brain and hatred in her heart. bigot.
Posted by: Little Kiwi | Dec 7, 2011 1:31:22 PM
Hush your pie-hole, you shriveled old prune!
Posted by: Perry | Dec 7, 2011 3:03:24 PM
According to the Bible, Jesus went about his preaching with 12 males and one female prostitute. Marriage just wasn't that important to Him.
Posted by: Jerry6 | Dec 7, 2011 5:34:31 PM
Jerry, Jesus's ministry ran three years. And he knew he was not long for this earth. It would have made little sense for him to have a wife, and even less sense for him to have a wife and children. And when the apostle Paul recommends that Christian evangelizers remain unmarried we need to keep in mind that the apostles all believed Jesus would return soon and that the world would come to an end. He told them that it wasn't for them to know when the end would come, so they had no way of estimating. Their chief concern had to be spreading the gospel. If they knew we had over 2,000 years or more to go, the sense of urgency would not have been as great and there would likely have been more talk of how a Christian should plan his life long-term. But this doesn't mean marriage wasn't considered important for a whole society.
Posted by: Mary | Dec 7, 2011 6:57:06 PM
Ah, Mary: If believing the nonsense in the Bible about a human body rising from the Earth and disappearing into the clouds without any means of propulsion, I guess you will believe just about anything. Be happy in your ignorance, if you wish, but do not try to impose it on anyone else. The Bible also says that the earth is flat, and that the Sun rotates around the Earth. The Pope finally agreed just about 10 years ago that the Earth really does rotate around the Sun.
However, if believing in the Bible makes your life liveable, go ahead and believe it. Just do not show your utter ignorance of the Laws of The Universe by trying to convince people that the impossible is possible.
Posted by: Jerry6 | Dec 7, 2011 7:37:20 PM
Jerry, I was only responding to another commenter's implication that marriage was not considered important in early Christianity. I am not ignorant of the Laws of the Universe. But of course religion deals with the SUPERnatural and is supposed to be beyond human understanding. It makes no sense to believe in an all-powerful God and then assume that he is bound by the laws of physics. These laws only apply to humans, not Deity.
Incidentally, my opposition to gay marriage has virtually nothing to do with religion and I have no interest in trying to change American law to make it comply with the Bible. This "dominionist" impulse we're seeing among some right-wing Christians of today was not part of the original Christian Right of the 1980s', which was more Burkean conservative and not at all theocratic. As evidence, remember that iits s original group was called "Moral Majority" and not anything with "Christian" in its name.
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Posted by: Babolat tennis racquet | Dec 7, 2011 9:42:11 PM
Truly a Hate monger! who is SHE to judge? isnt that gods job to judge? and didnt "GOD" say women should not be speaking without there husbands permission in public? But annnnyyyyy way Opinions are like ass holes everyone's got one. If I want to get married and be miserably unhappy in a relationship just like straight people I should have that choice.
Posted by: Cole Maverick | Dec 8, 2011 3:55:52 PM
Good for you Margaret. Lots of uneducated and visciously hateful posts though. Sadly, you are fighting a lost cause. We have become a society that has almost totally abandoned God in exchange for moral relativism and junk science. Even sadder, the fruits of these kind of policies will very soon come to fruition, as society in general is very near total collapse.
Posted by: Milos | Dec 15, 2011 1:26:27 AM
I know Margaret Court personally. She is a family mother and head of her church in West Australia. That she professes LOVE one another and then condemns the homosexual is sad. One of her own, Michael Bentley at one time was into the Gay community. He was supposedly a friend of the Courts, yet was a liar, fraud and misrepresented himself to those he met in Australia. He fooled Margaret and her church friends. As he continues to fool even himself. Margaret stuck up for him when he was manic towards his then wife. Oh I could go on forever, but enough, Margaret needs to clean our her own closet before downing Gays.
Posted by: Veronica Bentley | Apr 12, 2013 8:57:56 PM