Massachusetts Institute of Technology baseball player Sean Karson recently revealed that he is gay, and he says he has received a positive reaction from his teammates.
Karson is a junior third baseman who batted .350 for the team last season. A co-captain and two-year starter, Karson asked his coach if he could address his teammates during a recent indoor practice, the Boston Herald reports. That’s when he revealed to his teammates in a tearful speech that he is gay. He told the newspaper that the reaction was positive.
“They came up and gave me high fives and said they’d have my back and everything,” he told the Herald. “It was so supportive, it was ridiculous.”
Karson says he didn’t get a warm reaction from all his teammates at first, but the ones who didn’t immediately approach him later sent him emails to say how much they respected him.
Karson, who is a chemical engineering major and founder of a technology startup called Sponge Systems, told the Herald that coming out has been an emotionally freeing experience.
“I have never been myself up until very recently,” he told the Herald. “Everything’s been just sort of cold and calculated. I’ve been in this fortress, I guess, and haven’t let my emotions out at all.
“I worried that I had no emotions, that I didn’t feel much about anything. It was really weird.”
Karson was inspired to come out by former University of Southern Maine baseball player James Nutter, who recently came out. Outsports.com says Karson spent Super Bowl weekend at the Facebook headquarters in California as part of a conference for LGBT tech students, which may have played a role in his decision to come out. Karson also believes that a professional athlete is going to come out in the near future; he said that it would happen in the next month. He thinks things are changing in the sports world.
“But sports are never going to be a scary place for LGBT people again," he told the Herald. "The locker room is going to be a safe space everywhere.”
Though Karson has had a positive experience so far, he only needs to refer back to the comments of San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver to know that some athletes will have a problem with gay teammates. Regardless, Karson’s announcement is a positive step in athletics.
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Sean is a great ball player & role model! His parents should be extremely proud of him.
Gays are not hated by God he loves and forgives all.
Judge not lest ye be judged- Matthew 7:1
Don't mix seeds when sowing a field or wear a garment with mixed fibers. 19:19
If you have sex with a slave woman, you must then scourge her. 19:20
Children who curse their parents, and adulterers, must be killed. 20:9-12
The unchaste daughters of priests must be burnt to death. 21:9
Handicapped people must not approach the altar. 21:16-23 Are we really living by the word? Stop quoting this and sounding absolutely silly with your selective interpretations of a "guide" that was used to stop men from pillaging men and women.
The second Admendment is not in Parts , You have to go by the whole thing.
remember one thing To Be the sinner is one thing BUT when you agree with them you are also Sining.You amy not be a homo but if you agree with it you also are just as Much a siner as they .
It say's Not only do they do these things but they also encourage others.
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Read more than just 2 verses you intolerant homophobic people
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Lazarus
Love the sinner, hate the sin. Pray he escapes from his addiction to perverse sex.
Trcoa here is something for you to read.You can find it in Luke:
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Sean, congratulations on your courage and your tremendous teammates.
Ps. I love the young man as a fellow citizen. However, he has chosen to throw away the life-giving power that has been divinely bestowed upon him.
I understand that referencing God is a no-no. I am a medical doctor and because of that background my spirituality has increased. Believe me, you don't really want to be here on the planet and have all of your hope resting in humankind, especially not in doctors (that is no slam on me or my medical cohorts, just a recognition of our limited capabilities).
I rest.
You don't win a prize for being gay, but an Out gay is indeed a role model for closeted gays. And a gay college jock who can bat .350 tells young gays that gay and athletic are NOT mutually exclusive. I've seen some incredible performances at the International Gay Games. Performances that 98% of straights could NEVER match.
1. Have you had sex yet?
2. How old were you when you first had sex?
3. How old was your first sex partner when the two (or more) of you had sex?
4. Was your first sex partner a male or a female?
5. Who was the aggressor?
These questions are necessary for the parents and this young male get the right answers to why he is doing what he is doing. Priest are not the only adults that molest males when they are adolescent and vulnerable.
Let me Answer your questions:
1. Yes
2. 16
3. 16
4. Male
5. Me
No Priest, No Child Molesting Father or Neighbor. I knew when I was very young that I was attracted to guys. I have crossed the line out of guilt imposed upon me by the general public. I got out of that lying and returned to who I am. I do not feel perverted, I live a monogamous life. For some reason the public at large is convinced that Gay people constantly swap partners which is simply not true. Also did you know that Straight peopel make up 99% of all Divorce. Something that the bible clearly doesn't allow. But I don't see the religous freaks standing outside the famly court calling people sinners when they walk out. Hits a little too close to home.
Remember it is in Your Heart, And God knows what is in Your Heart. Learn To Forgive, Ask God to Forgive You, Learn to forgive People And for God to Forgive you ,You have to Change your Sinful Ways and your will be Forgiven. GOD
Shaunnsd, The Bible also doesn't aloud Homosexuality.Divorce is not a Sin Unless you Re-Marry.99% of Divorces because Gay's can't Marry. But since some State let Gays marry there are gays getting Divorced, When as many gays get Married as Hetersexuals The Divorce Rate will Climb.
As a “Metaphysician” who studies religious text, what we, the people, should be adhering to is, “Jesus’ Teachings.? You won’t read anywhere where Jesus denounced anyone for being “Gay.” All you need do is go to “Beatitudes” and see what Jesus said. If you want to understand what “God” said, just read the “Ten Commandments,” according to what Moses received from the “Temple Mount.”
Just as we have men saying things today attributed to God, men did the same thing back in the Old Testament. These were men with their own ideas as they are today. That’s not to say that some of these men weren’t “Prophets.” Prophets were men, too. That’s to say that some of them espoused their own ideology to suit their own needs.
So to you who think you have the right to find fault with someone else’s sexual preference, get off your soapbox. You are no better than the Bakers or Swaggerts in this world. You are no better than the people who find incest tolerable, or the fraternity brothers who submit other brothers to your despicable tortures in becoming a frat brother; and that includes committing acts of sodomy.
Remember, “GOD IS LOVE.” PERIOD…
Pardon me, got side tracked. Sean there may be a cretin or two out on the mound who may take aim at you, hope you're quick to the duck, and if they do bean you, shake it off on your trot down to first, then promptly steal second. Good luck in the season ahead.
Your teammates are awesome.... It took good teammates to allow us to enjoy and appreciate Jackie Robinson, and now you and your teammates also have helped the game to be a better place!!!!