Posted on 03/25/2013 11:25:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former NFL player Scott Fujita has seen enough. He's tired of the bigotry. He wants it to end. He's not alone.
Players like Fujita, along with a coalition of current and former NFL players, and NFL team owners, a music mogul and others, are working diligently to create a safe atmosphere for the day history will happen: when an openly gay man will be a member of an NFL club. People like Fujita -- brave people -- are attempting to make the issue a non-issue for when that day comes.
And there are serious indications that day may come sooner than later. While I've long believed I would not see an openly gay NFL player for decades, that might be wrong.
Based on interviews over the past several weeks with current and former players, I'm told that a current gay NFL player is strongly considering coming out publicly within the next few months -- and after doing so, the player would attempt to continue his career.
I'm told this player feels the time is now for someone to take this step -- despite homophobic remarks from San Francisco 49ers defensive back Chris Culliver and the controversy arising recently at the Indianapolis Scouting combine, when prospects were asked questions about their sexuality.
This player's true concern, I'm told, is not the reaction inside an NFL locker room but outside of it. The player fears he will suffer serious harm from homophobic fans, and that is the only thing preventing him from coming out. My sources will not say who this alleged player is.
There has never been an active openly gay player in a major American team sport, but the information I've gathered on the player in question comes from several current and former players.
"I honestly think the players of the NFL have been ready for an openly gay player for quite some time now," said Fujita, a free agent linebacker who has played for the Chiefs, Cowboys, Saints and Browns. "Trust me, the coming out of a player would create much bigger waves outside the locker room than inside. The way I've seen the conversation around LGBT issues evolve, especially in the past few years, has been encouraging. Guys are more accepting than they used to be. Even those who raise personal objections to homosexuality, some of whom are good friends of mine, would still be able to coexist and accept a gay teammate."
Over the past few days there's been a flurry of activity on the issue including a brief filed by Fujita and others in support of a marriage equality case before the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments on California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. Opponents of the proposition say it discriminates against gay men and women.
To Fujita and others, this is an important case that could have ramifications in the NFL. If the Supreme Court overturns Proposition 8, it would send yet another signal to closeted gay NFL players that the environment is changing for the better.
The brief's supporters are impressive. They include: Giants co-owner Steve Tisch; Demaurice Smith, executive director of the NFLPA; Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo; Marie Tillman, co-founder of the Pat Tillman Foundation; Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records; former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans; Browns center Alex Mack; and NFL players Connor Barwin, D'Qwell Jackson, Tom Crabtree, Eric Winston and Scott Shanle, among others.
There is a feeling among people who have fought this battle for years that a corner is about to be turned. I don't know. While my faith in humanity remains tepid, it's balanced by my faith in people like Fujita.
NFL locker rooms don't like distractions. Do your job. That's what's expected.
It needs to be controversial so people will argue and fume and turn on each other rather than look behind the curtain.
Well I know I’m sick as hell of hearing about sexual deviants.
LOL-—read “After the Ball”—the homosexuals outline their plan there. They virtually flipped Good and and Evil in one generation. http://www.amazon.com/After-Ball-America-Conquer-Hatred/dp/0452264987
The homomafia is extensive—Fr. Oko (google it) reports on the Homomafia and explains their Brownshirt tactics (Nazis were homosexuals, as were the Bolsheviks and Fabian Socialists like John Maynard Keynes whose trail of boys was disgusting.-—all brutal regimes and groups. Dehumanizing is habituated and nothing is nastier than excrement and they all participate in orgies. Corey Feldman states that the Hollywood producers ==all of them are pedophiles and still making movies—like Glee.
A lot of the elites are sodomites-—Freemasons are sodomites—the Skull and Bones types who use it for initiation rites They worship Lucifer...
Sodomy is the mocking of the Judeo-Christian God and idolatry of self.
—and elite NWO Bohemian Grove types can’t stand Christianity—since Voltaire. They want access to the boys at puberty. Pederasty is always a part of sodomy. (Franklin Cover-up). It is why the Marxist homosexuals who infiltrated the Catholic Church (Bella Dodd) in the 30’s and 40’s always go after the boys-—and young seminarians. Do read Fr. Oko’s report-—he explains the homosexual disorde/sick reality-— using psychology and theology. They are like Brownshirts who turned the Hitler Youth into the Homo Youth. The Nazis used the boys in their orgies. (Pink Swastika—free online).
Those Hollywood producers who were raping the Corey’s when they were boys (the one committed suicide) and so their movies are conditioning children to “think” Good is Evil and visa versa. Goebbels knew in the 30’s that TV and Schools were powerful agitprop centers. Marxists/Sodomites have been in Hollywood since its inception-—like the Bolsheviks.
Thanks for the info and link.
I know homosexuality is disgusting, and pederasty is pure evil. It seems like every tv show and movie has at least one faggot. It pisses me off. I only watch NCIS. They even made a minor character a faggot. I mostly just read now.
Wasn’t there some rumor that Troy Aikman was funny in the shorts ?
I beat you by a few years. Would start to watch a program———whatever and would turn it off because I had studied child development and psychology and I new what the producers were forcing into the subconscious of the naive.
I quit supporting cable. Just read Classics and occasionally popular stuff like “Shades of Grey” and “Hunger Games” and “Twilight” to see what they are peddling to the young.
It always disgusted me, when they portray evil as “good” and “beautiful” and portray the Good (people with principles) as bigots and evil. I had a solid Catholic childhood.
BTW, I really liked “Hunger Games” because it reminded me of “Brave New World”—and portrayed totalitarianism as evil, as it really is. There was a revolution against the State. : )
“Shades of Grey” was nothing but Marquis de Sade cr(p to normalize sodomy for the teenage girls. It is really porn—sexualization of our children, so they become Sadists and dysfunctional and so self-obsessed they make rotten parents so the State can have the minds of any children produced.
Who gives a crap? Why are these people so focused on where they put their penis?
The simple fact that any NFL player is in the top .0001% of people that play football. Their accomplishment is worthy of admiration. You get there because you are good. You get there because you are smart. The NFL couldn’t care less about your color or what you do with your private parts.
You are there because you can help win.
Everything else is secondary.
Why should I, or anyone care, who he curls up with at night.
Who gives a crap? Why are these people so focused on where they put their penis?
The simple fact that any NFL player is in the top .0001% of people that play football. Their accomplishment is worthy of admiration. You get there because you are good. You get there because you are smart. The NFL couldn’t care less about your color or what you do with your private parts.
You are there because you can help win.
Everything else is secondary.
Why should I, or anyone care, who he curls up with at night.
I read Hunger Games and liked it. I’m certainly not the intended demographic, but it was good. (I was reading it at the same time as a female friend of mine from another state)
I’ve been reading the Sherlock Holmes stories/novels. I really enjoy them. I also enjoyed Michael Chrichton and Robert Heinlein. I figure I’ll hit up Emerson next.
I read Sherlock Holmes years ago.....loved his “thinking’. I also read Louis L’mour books-—love the Sackett series. Read the Pelican Brief and Jurassic Park and Les Miz and Brother’s K. and “Farnham’s Freehold” .
I tend to read more history, though, and philosophy like the Nicomachean Ethics—and liked “John Adams”, “The Team of Rivals”, “St. Thomas Aquinas” by Chesterton, and books like “John Dewey and the Decline of American Education” and Charlotte Iserbyt’s and John Taylor Gatto’s and Eakman’s books about public schools and curricula-—Also books on Pathology and Child Development and Greek philosophy and John Locke and Cicero.
Dr. Berlinski’s book-—”The Devil’s Delusion” was a recent favorite. Love that guy. Read “God and Man at Yale” and CS Lewis—The “Abolition of Man”, which was profound. All of CS Lewis’ work and the “Hobbit”.....and even Michener’s books which got a little too lengthy (and boring) for me eventually.
I love most books, gotta admit. Reread “Fahrenheit 451” after the author died-—it was eye-opening because the author stated in last interview that the movie got it wrong-—that it was about people giving up reading -—not by government force—but because of TV and all the White Noise and distractions-—they gave up the Classics for Sound Bites and “bread and circuses” and after they gave it up, when people were starting to figure out the emptiness in their lives and wanted to educate themselves again—the government stepped in to eradicate books. The government found zombies easier to control and intimidate than people of Wisdom.
I love some of the children’s books also..read a lot of the Newbery Medal Winners......just read the “Annotated Alice” (in Wonderland) and enjoyed it immensely.
You can tell-—it is my passion-—to read. I have no time for “tv programming” at all. Occasionally go to the library and get some movies but love the ones on Westinghouse, Tesla, Einstein, Newton, Medici, etc.-—biographies. Some classics like “For Greater Glory” and “Amazing Grace” “Pride and Prejudice” I love also.
Then I do art (paint) and crafty things.......love it, as I listen to youtube videos-—debates on Christianity, Freemasonry, Catholic Theology. LOVE IT! :)
Thanks for all the info. I’ll check out some of the books you spoke of. F-451 was Vonnegut right? I’m a huge Tesla fan, being a EE and all. Reading is definitely superior to mindless tv and all the petty things in life. I think I’ll start with F-451 next. Harrison Burgeron was another good one Vonnegut wrote. Talk to you soon, good night.
(just realized how scattered my post is...definitely time for bed)
“Can’t be with that sweet
stuff. Nah…can’t be…in the
locker room man. Nah.” :-)
Vonnegut is good, but it was Ray Bradbury, but he won’t mind, I am sure, if you read his book. You might like this article.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/06/ray_bradbury_fahrenheit_451.php
Haha, I can’t believe I got that wrong. Clearly it was time for sleep. Thank for the correction. I’m going to read the article now.
Man! thank = thanks
I liked the article. I wonder if Mel Gibson will make the movie.
Not that I ever heard, and I’m a Cowboys fan.........
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