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Debate question: Why are there so few homosexual athletes, especially in the United States?
To me this seems to be a very strange phenomenon, since the [[homosexual agenda]] would have you believe that homosexuals are present everywhere. Yet in sports they seem to be lacking. I think there's a few reasons. First off, in sports, you have to be strong-willed to succeed, yet homosexuals were weak-willed enough to succumb to their temptations. Secondly, sports help reaffirm the young athletes with people of the same gender. Boys unconsciously observe how other boys act and model their behavior on this; the same with girls. This is one of the reasons Dr. [[James Dobson]] encourages parents to have their children play sports -- it sports—it helps discourage the gender dissociation which is one of the causes of homosexuality.<ref>''Bringing Up Boys'', Dr. James C. Dobson. Tyndale House Publishers, 2005.</ref> In that vein, it's not surprising that the majority of homosexuals in sports come from individual sports, such as [[tennis]], [[golf]], [[figure skating]] or [[diving]]. In team sports, the players have to be like-minded with the others to form an effective team, so if one of them is having distracting thoughts, the whole team suffers. The homosexuals become a liability for teamwork and either must adopt a straight lifestyle or leave the sport. This is why there are so few homosexual athletes. Opinions welcome. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 19:13, 3 November 2008 (EST)
I know professional athletes tend to not be gay, but I'm not sure the trend extends to amateur athletes. When I was in high school, nearly a third of our football team was openly gay. Maybe the drive needed to become a professional athlete is not common in many homosexuals, but because amateur sports require less drive, their weak will is successfully hidden? [[User:TGeary|TGeary]] 19:20, 3 November 2008 (EST)
One question: The few gays I've met are quite effeminite, and they are shown in society as being like that (so presumably most are). Could it be that they are less interested in sports than heterosexual guys? And women participate in sport less than men do, so wouldn't effeminite men also participate less? (This is assuming that most gays in sport are openly gay, which I think is unlikely.) - JamesCA
Are there so few homosexual athletes, or so few OPENLY homosexual athletes? Charles Barkley recently said he played with multiple gay athletes during his career. But there has only been one openly gay NBA player in history and that was John Amaechi. And Barkely never played with Amaechi. So in all likelihood some of Barkely's teammates came out to the team but not to the public, and thus we wouldn't know about it. Plus there may have been (almost certainly were) others who we don't know about nor did their teammates. As for why a lower percentage of homosexual athletes are openly so than the general public, most likely it is because sports is a profession associated with being "manly" which is a trait we commonly assume homosexuals do not possess. Which means an openly gay athlete would be seen as "unmanly" (whether this is true or not is irrelevant) if he came out publicly, and it could potentially end his playing career. In fact, if I recall correctly, the first athlete who was openly gay during his playing career didn't happen until a few years ago when a Welsh rugby player came out. (And let me tell you, rugby players are among the most manly of all athletes). And of course, there was the transgender woman (who identified as a man but was biologically a woman and thus played with them) on the George Washington U basketball team this past year but (s)he left after the season. And there's a lot of negative sterotyping in women's basketball where people assume that successful female athletes ARE homosexual, rather than in men's sports where we assume the opposite. [[User:Gregkochuconn|Gregkochuconn]] 16:29, 5 June 2011 (EDT)
: It is true there are not al lot of homosexual male athletes. especially nit in team sports. However there are some exeptions like soccerplayer David Testo. As metioned above there are much more individuel athletes. Swimmer Johan Kenkhuis (silver Olympic medal), Mark Tewksbury (golden medal), Uriël Taken, Jeffrey Wammes. [[User:Cyclofile|Cyclofile]] 14:05, 20 March 2012 (EDT)
Well, homosexuals are more likely to be atheists and atheists are more likely to be fat, as explained by the article on atheism on this site. Just go to the article on atheism and check, I think it's there. Anyway, if more gay people are atheists and more atheists are fat, then that could be a reason for it.
-[[User:Jand|Jand]]-
::[[Essay: Western atheists sumo wrestling - survival of the fattest?|Western atheists sumo wrestling - survival of the fattest?]] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:27, 14 June 2013 (EDT)
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