Not gay anymore? No job for you!

[daimoniotica]

Camille LeNoir thought she’d landed a dream job last year, an entryway into the competitive world of coaching college basketball. She was a former player herself, having starred at the University of Southern California. The WNBA’s Washington Mystics made her a second-round draft pick and she played the game professionally overseas. But since her playing days ended, LeNoir had focused on working with young players. She was excited when her former college coach offered her an assistant position on his staff at New Mexico State University.

She accepted the job, but two days before she was to board a plane for New Mexico, LeNoir’s phone rang. The Aggies’ coach, Mark Trakh, had watched an online video posted in 2011 in which LeNoir discussed her playing career, her religious faith and her sexuality.

For most of her basketball career, LeNoir identified as gay. Now she’s not. In fact, in the video, she said homosexuality was “wrong” and “not worth losing your soul over.”

Trakh retracted the job offer, LeNoir said, and advised her to remove the video if she ever wanted to work in college basketball. LeNoir said she was devastated. She felt she could be an effective coach regardless of what she’d said in that video. And besides, LeNoir figured, hadn’t she already accepted the position?

“I felt the job was taken away because of my heterosexuality,” LeNoir, 31, said in a recent interview.

Basketball coaching hopeful was denied a job. She says it’s because she’s no longer gay.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...0e2e1d41e38_story.html?utm_term=.b04ebad4eab9

 

[Wats_butthole]

For most of her basketball career, LeNoir identified as gay. Now she’s not. In fact, in the video, she said homosexuality was “wrong” and “not worth losing your soul over.”

LMAO, well no shit they didn't want her coaching a bunch of ball dribbling dykes.

Are you seriously this stupid?

 

[coachdb18]

LMAO, well no shit they didn't want her coaching a bunch of ball dribbling dykes.

Are you seriously this stupid?

Now I'm just wondering how many people in sports are straight but have declared their 'gayness' just to get a job?

 

[Wats_butthole]

Now I'm just wondering how many people in sports are straight but have declared their 'gayness' just to get a job?

How many were gay but had to act straight to get the job or the contract?

 

[EternalFantasies]

How many were gay but had to act straight to get the job or the contract?

Ya.. not only it makes it right, it's also the exact same thing.

Moron.

 

[Wats_butthole]

Ya.. not only it makes it right, it's also the exact same thing.

Moron.

So what kind of numbers we talking then, Einstein? Which scenario would have the higher percentage?

Speaking of morons, did you hear the one about the moron who wondered how many people pretended to be gay just to get a job in SPORTS?
What a complete idiot, right?

 

[EternalFantasies]

https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-30-2013/GlTwCV.gif

 

[Wats_butthole]

Name one person who pretended to be gay in sports.

 

[coachdb18]

Pretending to be gay is getting more popular...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/mar/16/ameliahill.theobserver

...and this article about 15 wrestlers who pretended to be gay to get people to boo them!

https://www.therichest.com/sports/wrestling/15-tasteless-wrestlers-who-pretended-to-play-for-both-teams/

 

[richard_daily]

Is the OP coming out?

I hope he does it in a more classy manner than Kevin Spacey.

 

[wheres_the_beef]

Or maybe it's because she takes a political position that calls into question her ability to perform important job functions as a coach. A coach has responsibility to comply with non-discrimination policies that most universities have because of the legal requirements tied to federal funding. Her statements call into question her ability to avoid being discriminatory of those who are gay or don't share her religion. That isn't about her sexuality but directly an issue with performing her job functions.

In the face of getting good advice to distance her professional behavior from her personal beliefs, she chose to identify that as being about sexuality instead of job performance. She made it a public fight with a potential employer in the market. If she was trying to find a way to reduce her chances of ever getting a coaching job even more, she found it.

 

[Wats_butthole]

Pretending to be gay is getting more popular...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/mar/16/ameliahill.theobserver

...and this article about 15 wrestlers who pretended to be gay to get people to boo them!

https://www.therichest.com/sports/wrestling/15-tasteless-wrestlers-who-pretended-to-play-for-both-teams/

Not sports entertainment. Sports. You know, football, baseball. There must be some from the 70's or 80's that pretended to be gay to further their sports career.

 

[Wats_butthole]

It's the same thing....sooo.....

 

[daimoniotica]

Is the OP coming out?

I hope he does it in a more classy manner than Kevin Spacey.

You can be sure your insatiably salivating lips will be the very first to know.

 

[richard_daily]

You can be sure your insatiably salivating lips will be the very first to know.

Don't worry, you aren't anyone's type.

Well... Maybe Busybody.

 

[Hypoxia]

The story was in WaPo. Doesn't that make it Fake News?

Or maybe it's because she takes a political position that calls into question her ability to perform important job functions as a coach. A coach has responsibility to comply with non-discrimination policies that most universities have because of the legal requirements tied to federal funding. Her statements call into question her ability to avoid being discriminatory of those who are gay or don't share her religion. That isn't about her sexuality but directly an issue with performing her job functions.

In the face of getting good advice to distance her professional behavior from her personal beliefs, she chose to identify that as being about sexuality instead of job performance. She made it a public fight with a potential employer in the market. If she was trying to find a way to reduce her chances of ever getting a coaching job even more, she found it.

Quite. Don't argue with those who might hire you. And if aspects of a career trouble you morally, another career may be in order.