Michael Sam tweets his departure from football, citing mental health

The one I don’t have a link for is the guy who recently went undercover to a gay bar and discussed:

1-Do you recall how old you were when you were molested?
2-What’s the youngest kid you’ve been with?

All, had answers to both.

Here’s other sites:

>http://borngay.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000029<

>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2009/06/05/a-major-study-of-child-abuse-and-homosexuality-revisited/<

On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.
The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual? Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.

>http://www.citizenlink.com/2010/06/17/childhood-sexual-abuse-and-male-homosexuality/<

I have done a lot of counseling with men who struggle with same-sex attraction. Some have been in the lifestyle, others have battled with lust and pornography. I would estimate that in three-fourths of the cases, there was some sort of sexual abuse or misconduct that formed a powerful memory which contributed to the struggle.

>http://www.blowthetrumpet.org/WhatCausesHomosexuality.htm<

Dr. Dickson’s study is reviewed on the NARTH web site. His study sheds new light on the relationship between early childhood sexual abuse and a child’s later involvement in homosexual behaviors. According to Dickson, an alarming 49% of homosexuals surveyed had been molested compared to less than 2% of heterosexuals.

Counselor Dr. Robert Hicks, author of The Masculine Journey, has written: “…In counseling gay men for twenty years, I have not had one yet whom I would say had a normative childhood or normative adolescent development in the sexual arena. More often than not I have found stories of abusive, alcoholic, or absent (physically and emotionally) fathers: stories of incest or first experiences of sex forced upon them by older brothers, neighborhood men, or even friends. I sometimes find these men have had early exposure to pornography….”

No. But the Mizzou staff, players, boosters, everyone around town knew he hung out/danced in gay bars etc. And dated homosexually. It was no secret and just before his Sr year, for fear of being “untimely outted” $cam and the team were told what they all knew anyway, and there was a commitment not to reveal this until $cam said it was time.

Which just so happened to be an “exclusive” interview with ESPN “coincidentally” just weeks before the NFL Draft.

Conclusion: It wasn’t “courageous” etc. His “coming out’ was purposely timed to maximize his exposure and pressure the NFL to draft an otherwise undraftable player.

And of course, we see how he and his handler$ tried to monetize his “courage” ending with a pressure-packed St Louis front office with a last-minute pick in the draft, by the hometown Rams no less, then bouncing all over the place.

Now this, two AWOLs in the CFL. As I’ve said this was all about the $$$. It was no damn secret, just carefully orchestrated.

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