Ever since he was rejected for a head coaching position at a local high school in Ohio, "Coach" Dave Daubenmire has been playing the victim, claiming he was discriminated against and had his character assassinated and was all but abandoned by his brothers in Christ.
Over the weekend, Daubenmire took his sob story to Linda Harvey's radio program where he asserted that he was denied this coaching position simply because he believes that marriage ought to be between one man and one woman.
Anyone even vaguely familiar with Daubenmire's videos knows that it not at all true, as he has a long history of saying outrageous and bigoted things; a tendency which he demonstrated once again during this very interview with Harvey when he asserted that people who criticize him are pawns of Satan, lamented that society has gotten to a point where people are no longer ashamed of being gay, and likened gay marriage to pedophilia and incest:
Harvey: These are the folks that are the biggest bullies of all ...
Daubenmire: To stand up and blatantly and boldly and without a conscience right at your face, I don't know how people can do that other than they're of their father, the Devil and the works of their father they will do. That's the only way I can explain it.
Harvey: I truly believe that's the case too. These folks are not operating out of a Christian goodness of anybody's heart because they do not love the truth
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Daubenmire: What ever happened to shame, Linda? See, there was a day when someone would not come out of the closet because it was shameful. You didn't want people to know that about you. And unfortunately, sexual behavior is a behavior, it's not an orientation, it's a behavior. And you and I know that many of the people who are caught in the homosexual lifestyle, Linda, they're switch-hitters. They swing both ways. So I ask people, are you born bi-sexual? Are you born a pedophile? I mean, we've got to begin thinking this stuff through, especially as Christians and unfortunately we just have not given a great deal of thought to it but rather just swallow what the liberals try to cram down our throat.
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Linda, I have people say to me, you know, they say all the time Coach that you discriminate. I say tell me where the discrimination is. I can't marry a man and the guy next door to me can't marry a man. Either one of us can marry a woman.
They say you guys get to marry the one you love. I say that's not true. I can't marry my daughter. I can't marry three women. I can't marry my son. I can't marry whoever I want to just because of love. That's not it. But see again, we're not real clear in our own thinking about some of the lines that they're hooking us up with.
Harvey: The reason this agenda is advancing is because people are willfully ignorant.
Somewhere down the road, these latest remarks will probably be quoted back to Daubenmire or used against him and he'll respond by once again playing the victim, claiming that he's being attacked simply for being a Christian who believes in the Bible.
