Basketball coaching hopeful was denied a job. She says it?s because she?s no longer gay.
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?I felt the job was taken away because of my heterosexuality,? LeNoir, 31, said in a recent interview.
LeNoir is suing New Mexico State in U.S. District Court, saying she was discriminated against because of her religious beliefs and sexual identity. New Mexico State acknowledges in court filings that Trakh rescinded the offer but denies any discrimination charges. A federal judge in California allowed the lawsuit to move forward and will preside over a unique case that spans sport, religion and sexuality, and provides a small window into the culture surrounding women?s basketball.
In court filings, New Mexico State says that LeNoir?s feelings about homosexuality shared in the video ?would have had an adverse impact? on her ?ability to effectively coach and recruit players who identify as LGBT.?
A spokesman for New Mexico State declined to comment on LeNoir?s allegations. Trakh, 62, left New Mexico State in April to return to USC. A school spokesman there said he was unable to comment for this story, citing the pending litigation.
There are no reliable figures available about the percentage of female basketball players or coaches who identify as gay. Candice Wiggins, Stanford?s career scoring leader who played for four WNBA teams, made headlines earlier this year when she said that 98 percent of the players in the WNBA are gay and that she was targeted for abuse because she was not.
?People were deliberately trying to hurt me all of the time. I had never been called the B-word so many times in my life than I was in my rookie season,? Wiggins told the San Diego Union-Tribune. ?I?d never been thrown to the ground so much. The message was: ?We want you to know we don?t like you.??
For her part, LeNoir says she never felt pressure to be gay. She?s identified as straight for the past seven years and she?s convinced she could effectively coach players from all backgrounds, if given the chance.
?I have not left the basketball world. I know what the culture is like, and that has never affected how I am as a teacher, as a person,? she said. ?I love everybody.?
When she was 16, a junior in high school, she began dating women. Her first relationship was with a fellow basketball player.
?For me, it was environmental,? she said. ?It was emotional connections and attachments that I had in the two relationships that I was in.?
Throughout her college career, she identified as a lesbian. During her time in Greece, she says she spent more time reading the Bible and increasingly struggled to reconcile her sexuality with her Christian beliefs. For LeNoir, her sexuality was never an easy issue. It caused her to lie and hide things from family members, she said.
?It was tough. I ended my last relationship [and] I was in love. There was nothing that went wrong in that relationship,? she said. ?And so it was just a constant wrestling with what I know the Bible says, my family says and my emotions. And so I got to the point where, like, I?m choosing this over that.?
The two went on to discuss her sexual orientation, her relationship with God and advice she would give others who identify as gay, as she had for the previous seven years.
?I would say, it?s not worth it,? she said. ?If you are in a same-sex relationship, it is not worth losing your soul. Whoever you?re in that relationship with, like the Lord told me, it will be the death of you. I just believe that you can overcome it. You can overcome and defeat sin.?
?If you believe something that you were born gay or homosexual or whatever ? if you feel you were born that way ? I would say that you weren?t. God wouldn?t create you homosexual, then say in the Bible that it?s wrong, and then send you to hell. He doesn?t operate like that.?
?I?m asking him, ?Mark, can you please just tell me why? What is the reason?? I never got an answer,? she said. ?He just said take down the video ? ?take down the video or you?ll never be able to work in this industry.??
LeNoir says she was under the impression that the job would be available to her if she embraced homosexuality again. She said the coach asked her whether she still believed the things she said in the video.
?So I shared with him that I did, and that I was no longer in that lifestyle,? she said. She said Trakh told her ?the fact that I?m no longer homosexual would affect recruiting.?
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Sorry, i read that twice and didn't understand a thing. Can someone explain?
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on November 03, 2017, 07:45:15 AM
Sorry, i read that twice and didn't understand a thing. Can someone explain?
She's straights now and the gay mafia are pressed by her heterosexuality
Looks like she got ?delivert? like Andrew
and what she?s saying about gays going to hell and not being born that way
offended ppl and got her fired. She?s saying it?s ?because she?s straight? though lol
She looks amazing for 62 though
she?ll definitely be able to get men
Quote from: AYR on November 03, 2017, 09:44:08 AM
She looks amazing for 62 though
she?ll definitely be able to get men
s
she's 31
Quote?It was tough. I ended my last relationship [and] I was in love. There was nothing that went wrong in that relationship,? she said. ?And so it was just a constant wrestling with what I know the Bible says, my family says and my emotions. And so I got to the point where, like, I?m choosing this over that.?
The two went on to discuss her sexual orientation, her relationship with God and advice she would give others who identify as gay, as she had for the previous seven years.
?I would say, it?s not worth it,? she said. ?If you are in a same-sex relationship, it is not worth losing your soul. Whoever you?re in that relationship with, like the Lord told me, it will be the death of you. I just believe that you can overcome it. You can overcome and defeat sin.?
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Not advising the girls to fucking chose MISERY just because.
This looney bitch.
Quote from: Justaway on November 03, 2017, 09:47:53 AM
Quote from: AYR on November 03, 2017, 09:44:08 AM
She looks amazing for 62 though
she?ll definitely be able to get men
s
she's 31
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Im sitting here dividng by 2
Quote from: Uzi on November 03, 2017, 09:48:18 AM
Quote?It was tough. I ended my last relationship [and] I was in love. There was nothing that went wrong in that relationship,? she said. ?And so it was just a constant wrestling with what I know the Bible says, my family says and my emotions. And so I got to the point where, like, I?m choosing this over that.?
The two went on to discuss her sexual orientation, her relationship with God and advice she would give others who identify as gay, as she had for the previous seven years.
?I would say, it?s not worth it,? she said. ?If you are in a same-sex relationship, it is not worth losing your soul. Whoever you?re in that relationship with, like the Lord told me, it will be the death of you. I just believe that you can overcome it. You can overcome and defeat sin.?
smknkjdddddddddd
Not advising the girls to fucking chose MISERY just because.
This looney bitch.
Nnn
A black religious taxi driver in Texas was telling me how one of his friends was gay but now he's straight married and happy....i asked him what if he was gay what would he do...he said being gay is a demonic curse and he would still choose women....mind you he thought I was straight..... another religious white woman I recently met was talking to me about how one of her friends used to be gay and now he's straight ( and happy)... I crack up at how both of them stressed 'and happy!'
Hbb the STUPIDITY and cluelessness of religious people scares the shit out of me....I stay FAR away from idiots who read or quote the Bible
why do some people think that being gay is a phase :kii:
no gay anymore! prayed it away!
she's definitely a nut.
Quote from: Justaway on November 03, 2017, 09:47:53 AM
Quote from: AYR on November 03, 2017, 09:44:08 AM
She looks amazing for 62 though
she?ll definitely be able to get men
s
she's 31
:dead: woops I thought her last name was Trakh but it?s LeNoir
Quote from: Stewie on November 03, 2017, 10:06:40 AM
Quote from: Uzi on November 03, 2017, 09:48:18 AM
Quote?It was tough. I ended my last relationship [and] I was in love. There was nothing that went wrong in that relationship,? she said. ?And so it was just a constant wrestling with what I know the Bible says, my family says and my emotions. And so I got to the point where, like, I?m choosing this over that.?
The two went on to discuss her sexual orientation, her relationship with God and advice she would give others who identify as gay, as she had for the previous seven years.
?I would say, it?s not worth it,? she said. ?If you are in a same-sex relationship, it is not worth losing your soul. Whoever you?re in that relationship with, like the Lord told me, it will be the death of you. I just believe that you can overcome it. You can overcome and defeat sin.?
smknkjdddddddddd
Not advising the girls to fucking chose MISERY just because.
This looney bitch.
Nnn
A black religious taxi driver in Texas was telling me how one of his friends was gay but now he's straight married and happy....i asked him what if he was gay what would he do...he said being gay is a demonic curse and he would still choose women....mind you he thought I was straight..... another religious white woman I recently met was talking to me about how one of her friends used to be gay and now he's straight ( and happy)... I crack up at how both of them stressed 'and happy!'
Hbb the STUPIDITY and cluelessness of religious people scares the shit out of me....I stay FAR away from idiots who read or quote the Bible
!!!!!
Funny because non religious gay people on here do the same thing to trans or bi-sexual people
Quote from: Uzi on November 03, 2017, 09:48:18 AM
Quote?It was tough. I ended my last relationship [and] I was in love. There was nothing that went wrong in that relationship,? she said. ?And so it was just a constant wrestling with what I know the Bible says, my family says and my emotions. And so I got to the point where, like, I?m choosing this over that.?
The two went on to discuss her sexual orientation, her relationship with God and advice she would give others who identify as gay, as she had for the previous seven years.
?I would say, it?s not worth it,? she said. ?If you are in a same-sex relationship, it is not worth losing your soul. Whoever you?re in that relationship with, like the Lord told me, it will be the death of you. I just believe that you can overcome it. You can overcome and defeat sin.?
smknkjdddddddddd
Not advising the girls to fucking chose MISERY just because.
This looney bitch.
She's choosing 50 years of misery over an eternity of misery.
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Get dick kings