Yes, he does. I’ve had to put it below the fold just in case it might blister my readers’ eyeballs.
I don’t give a shit if two guys, two gals, guy-gal, whatever it is, I believe that any human being in America, or any human being in the goddamn world, that wants to be married, and if it’s same-sex, more power to ’em. What also chaps my ass, some of these churches, have the high horse that they get on and say, ‘We as a church do not believe in that.’ Which one of these motherfuckers talked to God, and God said that same-sex marriage was a no-can-do? Okay, so two cats can’t get married if they want to get married, but then a guy can go murder 14 people, molest five kids, then go to fucking prison, and accept God and He’s going to let him into heaven? After the fact that he did all that shit? See that’s all horseshit to me, that don’t jive with me.
Watch out, Indiana. You’ve lost Stone Cold.
Well, it didn’t blister my eyeballs, and it was a fun read.
Indeed. I was expecting some Chuck Norris type of bullshit.
Stone Cold is actually kinda consistent, in that he’s really right wing (in the “hasn’t put much thought into it” kinda way) and refuses to judge other people or restrict how they live/be happy.
Wait wait wait WAIT! So his barely coherent redneck image is… a character? Pshyeah right, next you’ll be saying some outlandish shit like The Undertaker ISN’T undead!
Unfortunately an awful lot of religious people think their god talks to them.
Steve Austin was clever enough to make a good living out of pretending to hit people. That makes him eminently qualified to understand people who make a good living out of pretending to talk to god.
Oh, to be pleasantly surprised. It’s kinda what i needed today.
Interestingly, it’s not really that much of a character. He really is a big redneck, just one who has dealt with enough people all over the world that he just doesn’t care about the differences.
This topic always reminds me of a 2012 German single, “M&F” by die ärzte (“the (medical) doctors”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_%C3%84rzte), especially the last verse.
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi5_fSv7qXk
Text, with translation: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/mampf-mf.html
This may be enough to make me change my mind about professional wrestling (well, not really, but that was indeed a nice surprise). I wonder if he’s an atheist or just reasonable enough to know religions are bullshit.
As an author of afrequently quoted bible verse, Austin knows.
khms @ 9
That reminded me of this song by Steve Goodman. Ahead of his time, and irreverent as always.
I let out a deep, satisfying, belly laugh reading this. I cannot handle this man, people. He’s so fantastic.
Wow. I did not expect that at all.
I watched wrestling back during the so-called “Attitude Era”. I was a child, and my loyalties were more with WCW. That said, I was partial to Sting and Undertaker. Steve Borden (Sting) is, unfortunately, a born-again evangelical Christian, all the way to infrequently sharing Phil Robertson quotes that he “agrees with”. Luckily, I enjoyed the character, not the person. I don’t know about Mark Calloway (Undertaker), but he did frequently thank God after winning a match.
I always was under the impression that conservative evangelical Steve Borden was average for wrestlers. Then again, I really haven’t watched any wrestling since WCW went under… except for recently, because Sting stated showing up in the WWE, which piqued my curiosity… it is uniformly terrible. Probably always was, but hey…
I never ever ever would have expected something like this from any of them. My respect for Steve Austin has just sky-rocketed. I’m really impressed with him right now.
Hello, I”m TV’ Wrestling’s Steven Austin. Do you suffer from bleeding eyballs? Chapped ass?
I have this great cream for that. Though if it’s the chapped ass that gives him the awesome attitude, I’m not sharing.
He better watch out, though, someone might take that line about two cats literally – ‘Well of course two cats can’t get married!!’
Indeed, that’s practically the essence of “revealed religion”…that voice in my head is god. This includes the Big Three, arguably Buddhism, the LDS whatever that is, and possibly some others.
Very scary that people think they are told what to think and do, and how to treat other people by some “pure,” unseen entity who can not be questioned.
On the Indiana and now Arkansas laws…and others like it…I’ve seen quite a lot about the potential impact on the LGBT community, which I’m confident is a primary target of these laws. I haven’t seen any perspective on race. Perhaps no one has considered this possibility but it seems to me it would be easy for these religious fanatics to say it’s against their beliefs for the “races to mix”…and some do believe that…allowing them under these laws to deny services to blacks, Hispanics, Asians, mixed race couples, and so forth. Gosh, just like all the way back to the 50s.
Consider my ghast flabbered, I’d never believe a professional wrestler could get right to heart of a topic in so few words.
He’s just gone up a notch in my estimation. Welcome to Notch 1, Steve.
Aaaah, you got me there. I thought he was going to say something stunningly ignorant. But OK…Steve, good job.
Those of you who think pro wrestlers are all either ignorant or right wing loons need to read up on Mick Foley, anti-rape activist and voice of “The Boulder” on “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”
Is that “Austin 3:16”?
I’ve always wondered what those posters referred to. Now I know.
Guys, he was a professional wrestler, and by that I mean he was an actor in a soap opera. For years. There area LOT of really cool, progressive wrestlers. Most of them are, in fact. The Rock, anyone? It shouldn’t be that surprising.
Wrestling is a lot of fun, but it’s nothing more than pure soap opera cheese, and solidly in the entertainment industry, and not an actual “sport” as we Americans think of it (even though it takes a LOT of athletic progress and athletic talent to be a professional wrestler).
drst @ 21: Yeah, mick Foley is pretty fucking great. Everyone should give a listen to his appearance on Marc Maron. It was wonderful! He’s a swell guy.
http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_581_-_mick_foley
Wrestling is a lot of fun, but it’s nothing more than pure soap opera cheese
Ultraviolence soap opera. It sure says a lot about American culture.
marilove — As I understand it, so-called “professional wrestling” started in the carnies, and events are still known as “entertainments.”
I just realized that Republicans have turned the phrases “religious freedom” into a dog whistle for institutionalized bigotry against gay people…and possibly anybody my religion says is icky.
The Washington Post has a piece on Republicans falling all over themselves to support Pence, at the same time fearing the implications for 2016. Love this:
So…it’s not really about principles like “religious freedom,” but brand marketing to win segments. The laws bring in the ultra-conservatives who understand the dog whistle aspect, but they can’t go too far or too openly, lest the great middle is alienated, giving votes to Hil.
I very uncharitably assumed that a pro-wrestler was not going to be particularly progressive, and I now feel very guilty for judging him according to the stereotyped image of a wrestling fan that exists in my head :( Sorry, Stone Cold. And I guess sorry to wrestling fans everywhere; I must work on that.
That guy was my fave wrestler as a small child, before I got old enough to realize it was fake and to spot the absolutely terrible acting (I once gave a friend the most massive nosebleed performing the Stone Cold Stunner).
@hoku #3
Oh, so he’s some sorta uber-libertarian? I can respect that. I think the philosophy’s flawed, but as long as it’s consistently applied I can respect it. It’s that Randian Tea-Bagger brand of Libertarianism that really pisses me off.
Never heard of this gentleman, but Well Said !
Damn … wasn’t expecting that. Stone Cold has a brain, and some humanity … how the hell did that happen … and what can we do to get more tough guys exhibiting both brains and humanity?
Ultraviolence soap opera. It sure says a lot about American culture.
Especially on Monday, after the crowd cheered Brock Lesnar on after F5ing an announcer.
Somebody has to say it: Hell, Yeah!
Isn’t it great when childhood heroes say something and don’t disappoint you.
So I have a few things to respond to…
hoku @ #3:
Oh… um… has he talked about his political views? I’d like to see them. I’m almost hoping that isn’t true.
Then again, conservative or liberal, if this is his attitude towards LGBTQA people, then I really don’t care about his other political beliefs. This probably bodes well for his views on women’s issues, as well.
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drst @ #21
Wait wait wait
Mick Foley?
Mankind?
The dude who got thrown off the top of a giant cage cell into a table by the Undertaker, and then after climbing back up to the top of the cage, got choke-slammed through the roof of the cell and into the ring… and continued to fight with obviously serious injuries anyways? The dude who fought this damn Hell in a Cell match? (WARNING: extreme violence, including legit blood and even a tiny bit of gore… the Undertaker continued because Mick Foley outright told him to, and then wouldn’t let Undertaker quit when he tried to at one point. Foley dearly wanted to bring this match to completion, even if it meant ending his ability to move. The Undertaker dominates this match completely, and Mick wanted it that way. DO NOT WATCH if you don’t like extreme violence.)
That guy?
Holy shit. I need to learn more about Mick Foley. (For the record, That match and his few appearances on the Daily Show are pretty much all I’ve ever really known about Mick Foley.)
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marilove @ #23
So the Rock is progressive, too?
Wow. I’ve seriously stereotyped professional wrestlers off of Steve “Sting” Borden. I feel like an idiot for that.
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Thumper at #28:
Same. I offer my apologies, as well, but understand if they aren’t accepted.
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coreyschlueter @ #32
So I actually looked up a whole bunch reactions to that and basically everyone is reacting to it as if it were fake, going so far as to say that even the claims of injuries are part of the kayfabe story.
They are most likely correct…
From what I’ve gathered so far, everyone that Brock “injured” is actually fine. All those people he “injured” had very personal reasons to need time off, including Brock himself, and that’s the storyline they wrote to explain the various absences. (I should note that I don’t know for sure… it’s just based on comments I’ve been seeing in various forums… so grain of salt and all that.)
There are a few who think it was a real thing, in part because of Brock Lesnar’s reputation (from the IFC and subsequently in the WWE… it’s not positive, and Brock the actual person apparently is very unpopular with his coworkers and is known as having a violent temper… that, however, could also be part of the character’s fictional biography), and also because the commenter guy who they said was in the hospital with a broken neck was supposedly seen being brought into an actual hosital on an actual stretcher, but that could also be a rumor started by someone else paid to keep the kayfabe going, or a photo-shoot designed for that purpose, which I know the WWF and the WCW have done in the past).
I should note that it looked pretty damn real to me, even though I know better. I was (and kinda still am) legitimately worried about those two cameramen who did not look like they were acting. Then again, fake or not, it’s not like wrestling moves aren’t dangerous. Real injuries and even deaths have indeed happened, and concussions are apparently very common. I do not believe, no matter how fake, that that F5 doesn’t hurt when it’s executed. That has to be a shock to the system no matter how prepared the victim is for it. I’m willing to bet that for a cameraman who isn’t in the same shape as, say, Roman Reigns, that F5’s gonna be felt for a while, even if he isn’t injured in any serious sense. Hell… even someone like Roman Reigns would probably feel that for a few days or so after becoming victim to that move.
lorn @31:
Why did you not expect that from Stone Cold? Has he said or done something in the past to make you think he wouldn’t hold positive views on marriage equality? Or were you judging him based on something else?
I think that ship has sailed already, reached its destination port, unloaded and loaded new cargo and is not on its way back.