The Detroit Tigers' new right fielder recently told Kevin Baxter of the Los Angeles Times (for
an article published Sunday) that an openly gay teammate would be divisive in the locker room. "For me, as a Christian... I will be uncomfortable because in all my
teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right. It will be difficult and uncomfortable." I do not doubt that when (not
if, because the day will come, sooner or later), for the first time, an active professional athlete in America comes out publicly, it will be divisive, but Hunter (and others who would side with him) should be taken to task for being on the wrong side of that divide.
