I have no interest in Margaret Court as a person or as a tennis player. I do have an interest in the thuggish and discriminatory behaviour by Tennis Australia against the woman.

It now appears that they have caved in and will honour Mrs. Court for her achievements. Not that they should be excused for their appalling attitude towards her views on SSM to date.

"Our sport welcomes everyone, no matter what gender, ability, race, religion or sexuality, and we will continue to actively promote inclusion initiatives widely at all levels of the sport", TA has claimed.

Margaret Court's religion excluded. Mrs. Court's religion tells her SSM is wrong and Tennis Australia has discriminated against her, and insulted her because of her beliefs.

Clearly, TA's claim that it "welcomes everyone" no matter "what …….. religion ……" is a lie.

It's convenient for Tennis Australia that Mrs. Court is a Christian and not a Muslim. I wonder how the media would have approached such egregious behaviour from TA if she had been expressing her beliefs according to Islam. Would they have reported the discrimination with such delight?

If she was sprouting her 'pride' in homosexual activity they would be lauding her achievements. Because she along with 5 million other aussies voted against same sex marriage she is considered a leper. Seems like sport has degenarated to the levels of Hollywood. Really it is a reflection of a very sick society. Personally I think she should ignore tennis Australia and tell them to stick their award.

She is being harassed for having the same view that lesbian Senator Penny Wong had not long ago, before the SSM thing became political and championed by Leftist homo fascism. And, while a majority voted in favour of SSM (perhaps not realising that the demands would never end), they DID NOT vote for naysayers to be treated like criminals, gagged and sneered at; nor did they vote for sporting bodies and virtue signalling businesses to lecture people on what the should think.

Just having my morning read of OLO. Some good posting on this topic.
Take it easy.
SD

Margaret Court is the greatest achieving tennis player, male or female, in the history of tennis. The fact that she does not support gay marriage has nothing to do with this record. It’s not even as if she has ever made any derogative comments about gays, quite the reverse. And apparently she has gay people as members of her church. And if we are looking at her social contributions after her tennis career, well apparently her church provides 3,000 meals a week to the homeless and poverty stricken. That alone should earn her accolades.
Two of the people leading the charge against her are high profile lesbian tennis players who didn’t break her record, in fact one of them , Billy Jean King, didn’t even come close and in fact was usually beaten by Margaret when they played.
As a nation we should be celebrating the unparalleled achievements of the greatest tennis player ever, not playing identity politics to placate lesser achievers.

Yes. Margaret Court is a much greater asset to society than her detractors are.

good way to put it ttbn

Ms Court, claimed in 2017 gay and lesbian people were doing to young children what Hitler did, and what communism did. Court said "(they) get in the minds of the children. There's a whole plot in our nation and in the nations of the world to get in the minds of the children."
Ms Court is some kind of religious nutter filled with delusional hate speak. So be it, give her a couple of tennis balls and send her on her way.

'Ms Court, claimed in 2017 gay and lesbian people were doing to young children what Hitler did, '

maybe she learn't from the Greens to call everyone who disagrees with her as deniers or nazis. You specialise in it.

Paul,

If Margaret Court said, Court said about the homosexual lobby, that "(they) get in the minds of the children. There's a whole plot in our nation and in the nations of the world to get in the minds of the children.... " then she wasn't far wrong, was she ?

I'll support what Big Nana wrote, 100 %. Any issues relating to Margaret Court being our greatest tennis champion should focus on that alone. Any other issues in relation to her views on same-sex marriage should be dealt with in the appropriate place.

Mind you, she WAS beaten once by our own Evonne Goolagong :)

Joe

It could happen here too: In the United States, this sort of thing has led to a decline in attendance and viewership of sport, as fans increasingly feel preached at, disrespected and insulted by the sport establishment that puts premium on their “social responsibility” to be politically active and vocal above the need to engage and entertain as many people as possible.

Dear loudmouth2,

Hilter set about indoctrinating children to believe in hatred and prejudice.

Our society is looking to inoculate children against hate and prejudice.

More than a small distinction one would have thought.

'Our society is looking to inoculate children against hate and prejudice.'

by promoting perversion!

Dear runner,

No mate, the perversion was and is the leaders of your faith buggering and raping their way through thousands of Aussie kids and you continuing to defend them.

The fact you can't make that distinction says a hell of a lot.

I think she has dementia and should be pitied.

Hi Joe,

Do I agree with Ms Court, and her off court rantings no, can you support with evidence that gays are doing a "Hitler" with children, something you also seem to agree is fact? Do I agree Ms Court was a champion tennis player, yes. However I'm ambivalent about it all, if TA want to recognise Ms Court for her past achievement as a player so be it. The balls in their court.

Hi runner,

Always interesting that you never refer to which church you claim membership of. Is that because your church has a out of control paedophile problem, and it would be a bad look for you should you expose your affinity for the organisation.

Paul,

What ?! If someone has an opinion about something like SSM, they're like Hitler ? Bit of a stretch, and I think you know that. Can you join the dots ?

Joe

Joe, you seem to lack comprehension, Ms Court claimed gays were doing a "Hitler" trying to convince children of the virtues of homosexuality.

To quote you "Court said about the homosexual lobby, that "(they) get in the minds of the children. There's a whole plot in our nation and in the nations of the world to get in the minds of the children.... " then she wasn't far wrong, was she ?"

Yes, she was far WRONG in saying that, she likened the actions of the gay lobby to the actions of Hitler and communism in the way they to tried to influence children. You statement is she was right, not being far wrong, so where is the evidence to back that claim up, Court never produced it, can you?

I find it truly saddening that all this nonsense was dreamed up by people who are supposed to be intelligent after attending UNI, Alas !

Well I don't care for sports or businesses promoting social justice.
The whole lot of it is just a waste of time and makes me sick.

I'm not sure about this commemorating Tennis anniversaries either;
- But if that's what they're doing, then they should show respect to Margaret Court's achievements the same as if it were anyone else.

I honestly don't give a crap about her religious views.
And who gives a crap if she dislikes homosexuals anyway?
She's her own person and it's not for anyone else to dictate her personal beliefs / preferences.

Unless she refused to play an opponent because of their sexuality, then none of her personal opinions / preferences have anything to do with Tennis Australia.

This whole thing is a social experiment to enforce and dictate the beliefs of others.

Why doesn't Tennis Australia just go ahead and ban all Christians?
They can't because that could be discrimination on the basis of religion;
So they do the exact same thing the lying leftist freaks say they're opposed to.
- Bullying to get the same result -

Ethics of fairness says 'what you do for one, you do for the other'.
If they don't treat Margaret the same way as others they'd only make themselves look more pathetic anyway.

[Cont.]
The thing that sickens me with the left is they've got no principles.
Like everything is just some slick manipulative marketing campaign to sell the next installment of poor policy.
They'll complain about bullying;
- Like they are the founders of fairness;
- Make a big bloody song and dance about it;

But they'll be the first to actually bully others when it suits them.
'End's justifies the means' is a terrorist mentality;
- And a leftist trait.

And that's why I dislike the left;
They have no real ethics, principles or integrity and they are the first to show their true colours and throw the standards they claim to champion aside when it suits the narrative of their progressive agendas.

Joe, yes Yvonne Goolagong beat Margaret once. It was the final at Wimbledon and Margaret was pregnant lol. In actual fact those two were friends and often played doubles together.
As for those of you quoting Mrs Courts reference to Hitler and communism, please read the whole article. Yes, she said tennis was full of lesbians but her following comments were in regards transgender kids, not gays. She was referring to the influence of adults on young minds regarding gender, and many mental health workers would agree with her

Paul,

I would have thought that the Safe Schools program was a pretty good example of indoctrination :)

The evidence-free 'Aboriginal farming' hypothesis is another, now that it's being taught in schools.

Joe

Unless the people running Tennis Australia, the media and the usual bleeding hearts are all homosexuals themselves, I don't recall any genuine homo, apart from a player with a Russian name who likes to draw attention to herself, actually saying they were hurt or offended by anything MC said. I'm offended by what has been said about MC, but I'm not saying people have no right to say what they say. What pisses me off is the hypocrisy of the Left who think that they are the only ones entitled to free speech.

Hi Big Nana and Joe,

Getting ourselves in knots are we not. Please show one mental health worker, one of the "many" that would agree with her (Court) that gays are acting like Hitler and communism in getting into the minds of children. I'm not aware of any such workers of note who have agreed. Always willing to be corrected.

The relationship between gays, 'Aboriginal farming' Hitler, communism, child indoctrination now this stuff is right off the planet, I fail to see the connection. As for the 'Safe Schools Program', I would rate predatory clergy wondering around school playgrounds unchecked as far more dangerous to children's well being than the SSP. You never know, one could be another Archy Pell.