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2017-06-01 Down Under

'This is not OK': Navratilova renews call to rename Margaret Court Arena

[Guardian] Martina Navratilova has stepped up her call to rename Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne in an escalating row with her fellow former world No1, who said this week that tennis is "full of lesbians" and that transgender children were the work of "the devil".

Court, the 74-year-old Australian tennis champion turned pastor, also claimed that an Australian programme tackling homophobic bullying in schools was the work of a "gay lobby" that was trying to "get [into] the minds of children".

Czech-American Navratilova, who married her long-term partner Julia Lemigova in 2014, has led calls for the Australian Open court to be renamed following Court’s comments. "We celebrate free speech, but that doesn’t mean it is free of consequences ‐ not punishment, but consequences," Navratilova, an 18-time Grand Slam champion, wrote in an open letter published by Fairfax Media.

"We should not be celebrating this kind of behaviour, this kind of philosophy. The platform people like Margaret Court use needs to be made smaller, not bigger."

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-01 07:59|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 "We should not be celebrating this kind of behaviour, this kind of philosophy. The platform people like Margaret Court use needs to be made smaller, not bigger."

Actually Martina, you have it backwards. You are your type make up a tiny percentage of the population, yet you've been allowed to mandate to the rest of us that your lifestyle is perfectly natural and in no way a repudiation of values. YOUR platform needs to be made smaller, not bigger.

Posted by Crusader 2017-06-01 13:24|| 2017-06-01 13:24|| Front Page Top

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