Pacquiao, The Filipino Boxer Has Change of Heart About Gays After People Had a Change of Heart About Him

"With great power comes great responsibility, so that's my responsibility, to handle everything"

Pacquiao, the Filipino star fighter  changed his tuned about Gays, the bible and god after he was banned from a popular Hollywood shopping mall after the article was publicized Tuesday, and an online petition encouraging sponsor Nike to drop Pacquiao received 4,868 signatures before it was suspended Wednesday morning. The petition site, change.org, posted a note saying that the author of the original article had clarified that Pacquiao didn't cite the Bible passage.

The truth be told when you walking around with you pastor holding you on his arms and you start talking sins and what the bible says or not,  it is clear that “now” he makes a distinction in believing that gays are on one side and the bible on the other. He says he knows a bunch of gays and is got a family member who is gay. So do the homophobic members in my family and many families. Still they believe and preach that one is dirty and opposite of where god is. I don’t worry nor care. I do care about a foreigner making his living here and calling americans anything but americans. He changed his tune when he got caught off guard of how things are changing. A few years back Im not sure that anybody here would have raised an eye brow. But not now! We want respect and yes you can believe what ever the devil puts in your mind to believe, but that does not gives you the right to get on a public platform to insult anybody and then expect not to pay a price. As he mentioned to AP “ With great power comes great responsibility.” Funny that he should put it that way because that is the way it is.

Now that he empty his mind about what he thinks and the bible says about gays, may be he can start talking about human rights and about people being kidnapped and beheaded in his mother country. To tell you the truth, I don’t think the gays are doing it nor do  I think they are the problem there.

Pacquiao spoke to the AP next to his pool at his “Very Nice" Los Angeles home, where the ‘congressman' lives while training for fights at Freddie Roach's Wild Card Gym in Hollywood.  

Although Pacquiao is experiencing a newfound passion for his religion and has socially conservative views in line with many Filipinos' beliefs, he was eager to clear his name after a 24-hour avalanche of criticism over the belief that the eight-division world champion boxer had denounced gay rights and even supported the killing of gay people.

The expansive Los Angeles mall knows as The Grove, where the syndicated entertainment-news show "Extra" films its episodes, wouldn't allow Pacquiao to film a segment on its premises. Host Mario Lopez said The Grove had lifted its ban Wednesday, shortly after change.org suspended the petition to Nike, but his crew still planned to film its interview with Pacquiao at the fighter's home instead.

Pacquiao chuckled at the knowledge that his words - even words he said he didn't say - carry more weight than those of an average athlete because of his political aspirations.

 Pacquiao  told AP, "This has happened before. You have to explain and understand. It's a lot more fun to train (for a fight)."

Pacquiao is the Philippines' most famous person and one of the world's most popular athletes. The eight-division world champion is a movie star, singer, pitchman and congressman, representing the Sarangani province in the Philippines' House of Representatives since May 2010.

Pacquiao  who has embraced Catholicism in recent months after marital trouble with his wife, Jinkee. Although he has always attended Mass before his fights, the boxer has taken up frequent Bible study, and he traveled from the Philippines to the U.S. in the company of a spiritual adviser and pastor, Jeric Soriano, now a regular presence in Pacquiao's life in Los Angeles and the Philippines.

Pacquiao remember: Beheadings, hangings and violations of human rights=Bad
Gays as a community= Decent tax payers, good people with it’s bad apples like in any body else. Hard Core believers in human and civil rights and not in violence or acts of condemning people for whom they love.
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