Jeff Kent Doesn't Like When Guys Hold Hands

I don't know Jeff Kent personally, but I don't think I have to know him to know that he's not the friendliest person on the planet. Every time I read a story on Jeff Kent, it's usually about something he doesn't like. He didn't like Barry Bonds, so he got into a fight with him in the dugout. He doesn't like Vin Scully, and I'm pretty sure he didn't like losing his job to Blake DeWitt in the playoffs either.

But you know what Jeff Kent really isn't a big fan of? Gay marriage. Jeff is such an opponent of gay marriage, in fact, that he's even donated $15,000 to help get Prop 8 passed in California next week. Proposition 8 being a move to ban gay marriage in California.

Jeff Kent, who played second base for the Los Angeles Dodgers this season, has stepped into the emotional world of same-sex marriage, giving $15,000 to backers of the California proposition on Tuesday's ballot that would ban it.

In a disclosure filed with the California secretary of state, Kent listed his occupation as professional baseball player for the Dodgers and his address as Austin, Texas. He gave the $15,000 in a transaction dated Monday but which only now is public.

Now I'm not going to start a debate here as to whether this is right or wrong because gay marriage is one of those issues where you can't convince anyone to change their minds anyway. Besides, I'm not even sure I support marriage between a man and a woman. Still, I will say that I think it says a lot about Kent that this $15,000 donation is the only one Kent has made. Forget important things like health care or foreign policy, we got to keep those homos from getting married!

(Hat tip to SPORTSbyBROOKS)

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

10-30-2008 @ 3:02PM

Cubfan786 said...

kudos to him

10-30-2008 @ 4:30PM

SanDiegoMark said...

Actually, I'd like to think that this issue is indeed one that a discussion might change people's minds.
This issue (Proposition 8, California) is a little deeper than allowing gays to marry. It's basically about discrimination. Most of the readers here are too young to remember back when if a black man dared to look at, or date, or god forbid want to marry a white woman, he'd be killed. His house burned. But today, it's allowed, and legal, everywhere in this country. It just took 60 years.
This is exactly the same thing. Why should I care who Robert marries? If he loves Steve, then fine. I hope they're happy. If Jenny wants to marry Susie, great. It doesn't hurt me, nor does it hurt my children.
The certificate of Marriage means alot to these folks. It gives them certain rights that they do not have under 'civil unions'. And that's just unfair. It is indeed called discrimination. I'd like to think that our country, the free-est country in the world, wouldn't pass laws that take away rights from their citizens.
So, please, this Tuesday...vote NO on Prop. 8.
Thank you.
(and sorry for politicizing a sports board)

10-30-2008 @ 5:14PM

Hey, if the religious screamers want to outlaw something, how about this?
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24576437-5014239,00.html
This gentleman wants to make it legal for him to marry...a cartoon character.

10-30-2008 @ 6:00PM

Joaquin Fenix said...

I'm glad Kent has the, um, balls to stand for what's right.

As for you, sad little SouthPark blogger, that might've been the quickest about-face I've ever seen in journalism. You immediately followed a claim of political neutrality with an attack on Kent's character for the political causes he supports.

Let me see if I can execute that little maneuver: I don't want to start a debate here about whether bloggers with SouthPark avatars are idiots, but it says a lot about the idiocy of grown men who use SouthPark avatars when they write contradictory statements.

10-30-2008 @ 8:33PM

Jess said...

I figure Kent just assumes his donation is going to negatively effect Blake Dewitt because we all know that there are no straight men named "Blake".

As for the guy who hates gays and South Park avatars (not necessarily in that order.) I agree that the blogger did pull a "I'm not going to say my opinion, but here's my opinion" maneuvers... Still, I don't think any of us are in the position to say what is right or wrong in a situation like gay marriage. That includes me, you, South Park Avatar guy, or anyone else. Maybe one of us is God and has that kind of say, but I doubt it.

Personally, I got bigger fish to fry then caring about gays or straights getting married.

10-30-2008 @ 11:08PM

"I don't think any of us are in the position to say what is right or wrong in a situation like gay marriage."

Um, dude, that's what voting is. You know, being in a position to say what you believe is right or wrong in a situation like, say, gay marriage in a state like, say, California, for a proposition numbered, say, 8.

Anyway, I'm not going to explain what voting is, but that's what voting is.

10-30-2008 @ 10:02PM

dodgers4evr said...

i could care less about politics,and this blog should be left alone from politics,now back to the subject,i never did like jeff and it came to fruitition when he started talking smack about vinny,i guess jeff thinks he is larger than vinny,doesnt numnut know that vinny is part of the omalley clan,which was the original owner of the club,well i guess he does now cause he is out ,he shoudnt have messed with vinny,if kent was such a leader then he shouldnt have been so disrespectful towards vinny,now you wonder why im such a big vinny fan,well ive been a fan since the 65 season and all we have left as one of the original faces of the club is vinny,we that have been here since consider him like royalty,and it doesnt get any better than that

10-31-2008 @ 12:21AM

Actually voting is just one big collection of opinions. The majority of the opinions wins. That does not make anything "right" or "wrong". It just means that at this particular time, in this particular vote, more people think that this option is best for them at this time.

Also, what one "believes" is right or wrong does not make something actually right or wrong. Just what they believe is right or wrong for themselves. So even by me saying "I don't believe we are in a position to say if gay marriage is right or wrong" is not right or wrong, but just my opinion.

While I may understand voting, could you please explain to me the gerrymander? Specifically in the context of the redistricting of Texas and the creation of District 22?

I could also use some help in understanding how Jeff Kent won an MVP award when all he was doing was batting behind Barry Bonds and seeing only fastballs.

11-01-2008 @ 5:59PM

Jeff said...

I was a fan of Jeff's when I lived in SF and then moved to LA about the time he came to the Dodgers. I switched teams to stay a Jeff Kent fan. I helped pay his salary the last 8 years in two cities.

WOW! Do I feel dirty. I want my money back! All these year's defending him to friends and fans that he is not a back woods hick with old school thinking. Well, I guess Barry and all the rookies in the Dodgers club house in 2007 were smarter than me.

Jeff, you have lost a fan and if you return to the Dodgers, they have lost a season ticket holder. I can only pray that one of your precious children will grow up to marry someone of the same sex and that you will someday understand the errors of your thinking.

Jeff..please retire and become irrelevant quickly - kind of like you were in this year's post season.

11-04-2008 @ 8:08PM

Miech said...

Joaquin Fenix - NO, voting is not supposed to be about deciding which consenting adult relationships the government sanctions and which they do not. Should the government tell you what kind of peanut butter to eat? If that were a ballot measure, would you say THAT is what voting is? This is my point: prop 8 goes too far into what should be our private business, telling us which relationships are valid and which ones are not. Sure, we know that the best thing for kids is a mom and dad at home, but the government isn't making it illegal for parents to divorce, or excluding senior or infertiles from marrying; they are only pulling the "kids" card on gays, and THAT makes it discrimination. What else could that be?