{"id":190589,"date":"2016-02-17T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T08:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=190589"},"modified":"2016-02-17T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T08:32:16","slug":"pacquiao-loses-2-million-twitter-followers-over-gay-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=190589","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao loses 2 million Twitter followers over gay comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boxer cum politician, Manny Pacquiao, appears to have courted some enemies globally following his comment that disapproved same sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from the massive public debate over his comment, his followership on Twitter has reduced considerably from over 2 million to just 10,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Nz2jyjBoIPI7w4zPyDHLkEJAHzccBuo5&#8243;]The eight-times world boxing champion provoked a storm of controversy in his home country after saying people in same-sex relationships \u201care <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2016\/02\/16\/pacquiao-stokes-controversy-by-calling-gays-worse-than-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\">worse than animals<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190593 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pacquiao-twitter-new.png\" alt=\"pacquiao twitter new\" width=\"768\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pacquiao, 37, who is running for a seat in the Philippines senate in May\u2019s elections as a conservative Christian, made the remark in a video posted on local TV5\u2019s election site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s common sense,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you see animals mating with the same sex? Animals are better because they can distinguish male from female. If men mate with men and women mate with women they are worse than animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He later apologized and said\u201d \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m sorry for hurting people by comparing homosexuals to animals. Please forgive me for those I\u2019ve hurt. I still stand on my belief that I\u2019m against same sex marriage because of what the Bible says, but I\u2019m not condemning LGBT. I love you all with the love of the Lord. God Bless you all and I\u2019m praying for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But his apology did not save him from maintaining his followers on Twitter, not even his recent benevolence which he exhibited by <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2016\/02\/14\/manny-pacquiao-builds-hundreds-of-houses-for-poor-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\">building thousands of houses<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for poor Philippines in his locality helped him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxer cum politician, Manny Pacquiao, appears to have courted some enemies globally following his comment that disapproved same sex marriage. Apart from the massive public debate over his comment, his followership on Twitter has reduced considerably from over 2 million to just 10,000. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Nz2jyjBoIPI7w4zPyDHLkEJAHzccBuo5&#8243;]The eight-times world boxing champion provoked a storm of controversy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1345,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}