Was a Aussie hero deceived into LGBT lifestyle?
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| Thorpe overbalances on the blocks during the heats of the 400 m freestyle at the 2004 Australian Championships, resulting in disqualification for causing a false start. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
With the uncritical support of the secular media - the LGBT agenda has caused confusion in the minds of people who go through periods of depression and doubt - by projecting and claiming the LGBT lifestyle is a perfect and normal healthy modern way to live - the LGBT community draw people into a sinful deceptive and broken world that the Bible condemns.
One Aussie swimming hero shows this negative influence of the LGBT community - and how it falsely draws people into deception and sinfulness while at the same time claiming liberty, freedom and wholeness.
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WHEN Ian Thorpe came out as openly gay midway through 2014, it ended years of speculation about the swimmer’s private life.
So often the focus of intense media scrutiny, attention always seemed to drift away from his exploits in the water and land instead on his sexual identity.
Now, the 33-year-old has explained just why he revealed he was gay during a chat with British TV host Sir Michael Parkinson.
“I feel as though people were trying to force me out of the closet when I didn’t even know myself. I really didn’t, or at least I wasn’t sure,” Thorpe told The Daily Telegraph.
“I felt like if I’d been given a little bit more time, perhaps I would have comfortably been able to do it ... but I was just trying to fit in.”
This inner turmoil played a part in the former Olympian suffering from mental health issues since he was a teenager — something he revealed in a column for theHuffington Post earlier this month.
Now he is heading up a new ABC program called The Bully Project — a three part special confronting the issue of bullying in Australian schools that will follow the lives of several Queensland teenagers.
“I thought it was important we started not only the conversation about this in Australia, but also got to a point where we’re coming up with the resolutions as well … a lot needs to be done,” Thorpe said.
The swimmer has had to endure the spotlight since he was a teenager. He grabbed our attention when at just 15 he won the 400m freestyle final at the 1998 World Championships. Two years later at the Sydney Olympics he confirmed his status as a swimming legend, snaring three gold medals and two silvers.
Four years later at the Athens Games he defended his 400m title and also won the 200m freestyle event, while he claimed bronze in the 100.
His famed giant feet helped him glide through the water with ease as he became Australia’s most successful Olympian with five gold medals to his name.
He retired in 2006, but attempted a comeback in time for the 2012 Olympics in London. However, he couldn’t recapture his best form and didn’t make the squad.
WHEN Ian Thorpe came out as openly gay midway through 2014, it ended years of speculation about the swimmer’s private life.
So often the focus of intense media scrutiny, attention always seemed to drift away from his exploits in the water and land instead on his sexual identity.
Now, the 33-year-old has explained just why he revealed he was gay during a chat with British TV host Sir Michael Parkinson.
“I feel as though people were trying to force me out of the closet when I didn’t even know myself. I really didn’t, or at least I wasn’t sure,” Thorpe told The Daily Telegraph.
“I felt like if I’d been given a little bit more time, perhaps I would have comfortably been able to do it ... but I was just trying to fit in.”
This inner turmoil played a part in the former Olympian suffering from mental health issues since he was a teenager — something he revealed in a column for theHuffington Post earlier this month.
Now he is heading up a new ABC program called The Bully Project — a three part special confronting the issue of bullying in Australian schools that will follow the lives of several Queensland teenagers.
“I thought it was important we started not only the conversation about this in Australia, but also got to a point where we’re coming up with the resolutions as well … a lot needs to be done,” Thorpe said.
The swimmer has had to endure the spotlight since he was a teenager. He grabbed our attention when at just 15 he won the 400m freestyle final at the 1998 World Championships. Two years later at the Sydney Olympics he confirmed his status as a swimming legend, snaring three gold medals and two silvers.
Four years later at the Athens Games he defended his 400m title and also won the 200m freestyle event, while he claimed bronze in the 100.
His famed giant feet helped him glide through the water with ease as he became Australia’s most successful Olympian with five gold medals to his name.
He retired in 2006, but attempted a comeback in time for the 2012 Olympics in London. However, he couldn’t recapture his best form and didn’t make the squad.
