Court: ‘gays won’t stop me’

Court: ‘gays won’t stop me’

Margaret Court says she won’t be discouraged from attending the Australian Open this month despite a social media campaign to flood Margaret Court Arena with rainbow flags to protest her anti-gay views.

In an interview with The Australian today, Court said she expected Australian Open organisers to prevent the protest from disrupting the tournament.

“Are they not wanting me to come to the Australian Open? Is that what they are trying to do? I don’t run from anything,” she said.

“I have always been a champion and always loved what I do and love tennis. I think it is very sad they can bring it into that. It is hard that they can voice their opinions but I am not allowed to voice my opinion. There is something wrong somewhere.

“We live in a free society and I stand up for families between a husband and a wife. I won’t ever back down on that.”

Court, who claims on her website to be “the world’s most successful tennis player ever”, also voiced her support for so-called ‘reparative’ therapy in the interview, saying she regularly converts gay people to heterosexuality at her church.

“We have them in our church. I help them to overcome. We have people who have been homosexual who are now married,” she said.

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16 responses to “Court: ‘gays won’t stop me’”

  1. “It is hard that they can voice their opinions but I am not allowed to voice my opinion.”

    How many articles get printed in the Australian and the Herald Sun in which she gets to voice her opinion? And how many in those same two publications offer a voice to the oppressed few?

    I’d wager a straight sets victory to MC.

  2. You guys have been tricked by the Australian newspaper, basically the Australian is trying to make it look like we gay people are highly vocal and that we attack anybody who does not agree with us. Well done guys you are setting gay rights backward by being fooled by the Australian newspaper. And yes I don’t agree with her opinion.

  3. Brendan, gay men have been living the double life for years. Even longer than you and could ever count.

    Becoming mainstream is already attracting this problem amongst gay men. A few months ago a Melbourne venue had to ban women from their venue for their predatory behaviour towards gay men.

    Straight women love to entrap us into a sham straight marriage. Who needs the church to try and turn us straight.

  4. Quoth Margaret Court, “We have them in our church. I help them to overcome. We have people who have been homosexual who are now married”.

    Gay people married to someone of the opposite sex?

    STOP THE PRESSES! That has NEVER happened before! Oh, wait..

    STOP THE PRESSES! Heterosexual marriage turns gay folk straight! Oh, wait..

    Back to the drawing board, Margaret. Or you could just shove off altogether, mind your own business, quit interfering in the law-abiding lives of others, and stop trying to impose your narrow religious opinion on all Australians.

  5. Margaret thinks her farts smell good from what I can see. She believes she should be the only free person, and only she knows the Gospels? She is a champion she says? Sounds to me like madness. Her Church “cures” people? Only “They know”? Sounds like a terrifying sadistic cult to me – Taliban talk.

    Given a poor gay man was just tortured and burnt to death, in a park near Geelong, I have to wonder if the killers were inspired by Margaret or the Christian Lobby, or even Jeff Kennett? What do people do to threats to mum and dad and society? Kill? Creating hate does have consequences. People are brutally murdered, bashed, and discriminated against. Should the Australian Open, that has been given millions by the Federal and State Governments, be sponsoring terror against the GLBTI community?

    The majority of Christians support Marriage Equality as the polls show us. This an attract not just on people due to their sexuality, but their religious beliefs from what I can see. It is an attack on our ability to live freely.

  6. She claims “It is hard that they can voice their opinions but I am not allowed to voice my opinion. There is something wrong somewhere.”

    You are free to voice your opinion, but being free to voice your opinion does not mean people aren’t allowed to take issue with it. Freedom of speech comes with the burden of dealing with any backlash that might come against it.

  7. Self proclaimed Greatest ever female tennis player in the world?? Rofl…nuff said! I didn’t know she was a comedian, silly old bag!
    It’s the homo “converters” like her that ruin families… And she represents god? I’m happy to go to hell in that case lol

  8. Yes, Court is entitled to express her opinions, but when those opinions hurt, ridicule or marginalise others it is a problem. We no longer accept racist comments from community leaders. We no longer accept sexist comments from leaders. why should we have to accept heterosexist ones?

  9. Court is entitled to her opinions and should be allowed to voice them. I don’t see what a protest against her at the Australian Open will really achieve. Interesting, her claim that she ‘regularly’ converts gay people into straight people at her church. What bollocks. It is sad when someone who claims to be a Christian does not appear to have universal compassion and humanity in her soul.

  10. What a silly woman she is. There is no proof of a god and she talks as if she has conversations with one and knows what he wants.
    She is a waste of space looney tune.