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"&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0908-craig-james-youtube\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/09/08/0908-craig-james-youtube-3.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\nA FOX Sports Southwest commentator was reportedly fired for making some pretty awful anti-gay comments ... the wrinkle is that he hurled the homophobic remarks long before he was hired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Craig James&lt;/strong&gt; -- a star at SMU and a former member of the New England Patriots in the '80s -- ran for a senate seat in Texas.&amp;#160; During a 2012 debate, he had some choice words:&amp;#160; Gay people \"would answer to the Lord for their actions,\" and being gay was a choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James was hired last month by Fox Sports Southwest and then reportedly fired after just one appearance.&amp;#160; According to the Dallas Morning News, an unnamed Fox Sports honcho said, \"We just asked ourselves how Craig's statements would play in our human resources department.\" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently Fox didn't fully vet the dude.&amp;#160; The question -- should he be sacked for statements he made before coming on board?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{{tmz_video_0}}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=\"float: right;\"&gt;&lt;!-- relatedpoll --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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