{"id":9245,"date":"2016-08-22T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=9245"},"modified":"2016-09-01T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T17:23:21","slug":"twitter-sphere-goes-daffy-over-daley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/twitter-sphere-goes-daffy-over-daley\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter-sphere goes daffy over Daley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9250\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/twitter-sphere-goes-daffy-over-daley\/tom_daley_london\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tom_Daley_London-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Daley with his bronze medal from London 2012. He was expected to win gold in Rio.\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tom_Daley_London-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tom_Daley_London-600x882.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tom_Daley_London-768x1129.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tom_Daley_London-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tom_Daley_London.jpg 1364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Daley with his bronze medal from London 2012. He was expected to win gold in Rio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his book \u2018Rules for Radicals\u2019, Saul Alinsky said the establishment\u2019s over-reaction to what we do has an impact greater than our initial action.<\/p>\n<p>We are the radicals now and we just illustrated that principle.<\/p>\n<p>My tweets at<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/Twitter.com\/UKCV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter.com\/UKCV<\/a><\/strong> about Caster Semenya and especially about Tom Daley\u2019s flop in the diving have led to 20,000 hits on our\u00a0website, agitation from homosexuals, some of whom have tried to sign us up to gay websites, and to this ministry being noticed by the modern\u00a0great and good.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, Daley has made so much of his sodomistic relationship with Dustin Lance Black that he cannot escape being, as the latter might put it, &#8216;called out&#8217; about it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Daley &#8216;can&#8217;t wait to start a family&#8217; with Black, whom he describes emetically as his &#8216;fianc\u00e9&#8217;. Oh, please. Someone tell Tom that to &#8216;start a family&#8217; without surgical intervention you need sexual intercourse, and two men can&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<p>They will have to get a girl involved somehow and the resulting child will be that of one or the other, not both of them. And how selfish is it of Daley to deprive a child of its mother?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9257\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/twitter-sphere-goes-daffy-over-daley\/daleytelegraph\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9257\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/daleytelegraph-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Daley won synchronised bronze on his own, according to the Daily Telegraph\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/daleytelegraph-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/daleytelegraph-600x986.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/daleytelegraph-623x1024.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/daleytelegraph.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daley won synchronised bronze on his own, according to the Daily Telegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>DALEY WAS GOING FOR GOLD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Daley was one of Team GB&#8217;s great gold medal hopes, having achieved bronze in London 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Just days before the Rio Olympics started, Daley said: &#8216;I&#8217;m going into this Olympic Games for a gold medal.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Well, he achieved a bronze with Dan Goodfellow in the men&#8217;s synchronised 10m platform. \u00a0Astonishingly, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/essentials\/sport\/olympics\/dan-goodfellow-wins-bronze-moment-please-tom-daleys-synchronised-partner\/\" target=\"_blank\">as Felicity Morse noted in iNews<\/a><\/strong>, newspaper coverage of the medal was all about Daley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A quick glance at the front pages on Tuesday and you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking Tom Daley took home a bronze medal for Team GB all on his own,&#8217; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GOODFELLOW OUT OF THE PICTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His diving partner was even left out of the picture completely in the Daily Telegraph. Goodfellow&#8217;s mother, Sharon, (@goodfellowshar1) tweeted to Nick Sutton, editor of the BBC News Website: &#8216;Aug 8 @suttonnick I am very surprised by this photo. Is it for real? I am Dan&#8217;s mum.&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9258\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/twitter-sphere-goes-daffy-over-daley\/daleymail\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9258\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DaleyMail-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Daily Mail left Goodfellow out of the picture as well.\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DaleyMail-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DaleyMail-600x802.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DaleyMail-768x1027.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DaleyMail-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DaleyMail.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Daily Mail left Dan Goodfellow out of the picture as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Daily Mail did the same: &#8216;Tom&#8217;s leap to Olympic joy&#8217;, they wrote, ignoring Goodfellow completely. It was as if Daley had done it all on his own.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to doing it on his own for real in the individual event, Daley was in the lead and in line for gold. After leading the field he crashed out in last place. The failure was described as &#8216;shocking&#8217; by the Mail. So what scrambled his mind on the second day? My tweet provocatively suggested turning gay had not done him &#8216;any favours&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TWITTER-SPHERE GOES INTO OVERDRIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The twitter-sphere went mad. The &#8216;gays&#8217; were incensed. We were not &#8216;loving&#8217;, they suggested. \u00a0Two of the victorious GB women&#8217;s hockey team were &#8216;married&#8217; to each other, they said. \u00a0Of course, the two women concerned \u00a0are not married, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LZE9WZW4-A4\" target=\"_blank\">merely gay-married<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Another said Daley had &#8216;given young, gay people a role model&#8217;. \u00a0Not young people, just &#8216;young gay people&#8217;. \u00a0The &#8216;gays&#8217; are very proud of Daley, his failure has hurt them and any criticism of him as a homosexual is beyond the gay pale.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Wilde said there was only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that was not being talked about. \u00a0We were talked about for sure. \u00a0Adrian Hilton&#8217;s much-viewed conservative website\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archbishopcranmer.com\/tom-daley-gay-diving-and-the-christian-voice-judgment-of-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">Archbishop Cranmer<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>pontificated. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\" target=\"_blank\">J.K. Rowling<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0tweeted. \u00a0Baroness Barker retweeted some\u00a0LibDem candidate. \u00a0The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/tom-daley-diving-gay-10m-platform-homophobia-twitter_uk_57b8a2bde4b0b8a585b47bd8?utm_hp_ref=uk\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post reported<\/a><\/strong>. The US homosexual magazine <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/sports\/2016\/8\/21\/christian-right-group-turning-gay-hurt-tom-daleys-olympic-performance\" target=\"_blank\">Advocate<\/a><\/strong> got in on the act. \u00a0Even the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2016\/08\/21\/jk-rowling-schools-homophobes-over-tom-daley-hate-6081224\/\" target=\"_blank\">UK-based Metro<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>paper reported J.K. Rowling&#8217;s comments, adding that my\u00a0tweet was &#8216;vile&#8217;. A tiny bit over-the-top, possibly?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9237\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/sorry-caster-semenya-you-arent-a-woman\/casterwinssemi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9237 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/casterwinssemi-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Caster Semenya comes first, as expected, in her women's 800m semi-final.\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/casterwinssemi-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/casterwinssemi-600x381.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/casterwinssemi.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caster Semenya comes first, as expected, in her women&#8217;s 800m semi-final.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>CASTER SEMENYA CHEATED GENUINE\u00a0WOMEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As to Caster Semenya, after <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/36691465\" target=\"_blank\">her\/his predictable victory in the women&#8217;s 800<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0she\/he said about her\/his critics: &#8216;Sport is all about uniting people and not discriminating. I feel sorry for them&#8217;. \u00a0Well, actually, women&#8217;s sport is &#8216;about&#8217; discriminating against men, Caster, and your internal testes give you an unfair testosterone-fueled advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Intersex is a terrible affliction. \u00a0We have great sympathy for Caster. \u00a0But at the same time, in the interests of fairness and equity,\u00a0she\/he should not be competing in women&#8217;s events. \u00a0Caster should feel sorry, not for the critics, but for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/lynsey-sharp-defends-caster-semenya-comments-after-coming-sixth-in-womens-800m-final-in-rio_uk_57b9ae1de4b0f78b2b4a53c1?utm_hp_ref=uk\" target=\"_blank\">genuine women she\/he cheated out of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, or even places<\/a><\/strong>, in the women&#8217;s 800m.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics chiefs, including the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/sorry-caster-semenya-you-arent-a-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Court for Arbitration in Sport<\/a><\/strong>, should act immediately in the case, reallocate the medals and ban intersex athletes from women&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STAYING GAY IS A CHOICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Going back to Tom Daley, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2013dec04daley\/\" target=\"_blank\">he was seduced into sodomy by an older man<\/a><\/strong>, not very long after the untimely death of his beloved father. \u00a0You don&#8217;t need a degree in psychology to work out what&#8217;s going on there. \u00a0But even now, he could repent of all his sin (just like we all have to do) trust in Jesus and walk away from the homosexual lifestyle, like so many have before him. \u00a0Becoming gay might or might not be a choice. \u00a0Staying gay definitely is. \u00a0And who knows, by transforming his mind (al la Romans 12:2) by the grace of God and by the infilling of the Holy Spirit Tom Daley might improve his diving as a result.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Find out how to join Christian Voice and stand up for the King of kings (clicking on the link below does not commit you to join)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P1OVTZ-gb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3940\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Join Today!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Join_donate_Logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please note that persons wishing to comment on this story must enter a valid email address. 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