What does gay marriage have to do with an openly gay football player?
It's all about LGBT Americans being treated equally, fairly, and openly. Just like everyone should be. Fifteen or twenty years ago, and certainly longer, an openly gay football player would never have been drafted or would have been kicked out of the league. The NFL would have used the same bullshit the military used, that a gay player is disruptive to team cohesiveness.
Many gays have played in the NFL. They played the game, did their job, and left their personal life out of it. They were football players by trade and didn't need to be known as gay to define them.
Yup. In the 1980's I knew a Cleveland Browns player that was gay. And it's gossiped that the great Lyle Alzado died from HIV, not steroid abuse. The reason the players "left their personal life out of it" because if they had announced to the public they were gay, they would have been kicked off the team and out of the league. They lived in fear.
This isn't about equality, it's about the forced acceptance methodology the gays are using. Kind of like demanding respect instead of earning it.
It is about equality. How can you respect a gay person, if you don't know the person is gay to start with?
