NHL Player Refuses Pride Jersey
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Last week, Philadelphia Flyers hockey player Ivan Provorov refused to wear a jersey for the NHL's Pride Night.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.7 | Last week Philadelphia Flyers hockey player Ivan Provorov refused to wear a jersey for the NHL's |
| 0:10.0 | Pride Night, telling reporters he wanted to stay true to myself and religion, which for him |
| 0:15.0 | is Eastern Orthodoxy. |
| 0:16.6 | You can play a social activist group associated with the NHL's Hockey is for everyone campaign, |
| 0:22.7 | offered to re-educate Provorov and COO Kurt Weaver, publicly questioned whether he should |
| 0:28.1 | even be a member of the team if he continues to disagree about LGBTQ issues. |
| 0:33.1 | Quote, at what point does a decision like this that a player wants to make cross over into |
| 0:38.0 | basically not showing up for your job? |
| 0:40.7 | He asked. |
| 0:41.7 | So that's the job of a hockey player now? |
| 0:43.9 | You can play, says Hockey's for everyone. |
| 0:46.4 | Men don't really mean it. |
| 0:47.6 | They're among the many pundits who preach diversity and practice conformity. |
| 0:50.9 | Thankfully, the NHL stated it will continue to celebrate diversity, and players will be |
| 0:55.9 | free to decide which initiative to support. |
| 0:58.7 | That's actual diversity. |
| 1:00.6 | For the call-son set, I'm John Stone Street with the Point. |
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