Posted on 01/02/2014 12:13:32 PM PST by C19fan
Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I answered the question. My answer, verbatim, was always, "I honestly don't know, because I'm not in those meetings with the coaches and administrative people."
This is a true answer. I honestly don't know if my activism was the reason I got fired.
However, I'm pretty confident it was.
Allow myself to tell you a story about ... myself. The following is a record of what happened to me during my 2012 season with the Minnesota Vikings, written down immediately after the 2013 draft in April, when I realized what was happening, and revised recently only for clarity. I tried to keep things as objective as possible, and anything you see in quotes are words that I directly recall being said to me.
This is a story about how actions have consequences, no matter how just or moral you think your cause happens to be, and it's a story about the price people all too often pay for speaking out.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadspin.com ...
according to footballnation.com Kluwe was ranked 27th overall last season. No reason to keep an overpaid veteran when he is so easily replaced.
Ah, well, thank you for the inside scoop. Always follow the money. I read the article, and I’m still uncertain about Kluwe’s reasons. Homo? (NOT that I care).
And the average career for a sucktard kicker is the end of that game.
I don’t know what his reasons are. He went from being a halfway decent punter to a very strident, extremely loud and far too verbose activist.
He has not learned the lesson of Phil Robertson, which is that a vast number of people in this country are sick and tired of being told by liberals how they have to think.
He was sure ignorant as all get out to continue spewing that crap.
NOBODY except the homos want to hear from actresses, actors and particularly athletes about homosexual crap.
Just wait he’ll be hired by NBC Sports as part of the Sunday Night Football Crew for next season, you heard it here first people!
It's worse than that. He played at least half of his games INSIDE. Kickers and punters that play in a dome need to have better numbers than those who don't.
Nice red herring there. It’s not about the 2nd Amendment, it’s about support for sodomy.
I know several high school and college punters who played other positions well. One linebacker on the local HS team was called into service to punt after the punter went down on the previous punt. Kicked the ball from the end zone to the five yard line of the other team with a 15 yd roll.
Oh. Sure. There are football players (ie linebackers, free safeties, quarterbacks, etc.) that may kick a ball from time to time, but punters—per se—don’t really play football;
“I theenk I keek a touchdown” just doesn’t cut it.
Dear NFL Punter:
so what?
In all the years that you have been shown to be an icon of what American Sportsmanship, teamwork, and individual pursuit of excellence demonstrates, what is that coming out of your mouth?
Take it like a man, suck it up, and go away, quietly.
No it is not. You are trying to project your faith onto me. It is not wanted and will not be tolerated. You have a right to believe what ever you wish but that does not make it true, right, or acceptable to others.
This is about the ability to express an opinion, a belief, or your thoughts based on your personal point of view. The big "BUT" here is that if you get to express your faith based beliefs every other person governed by our constitution gets to express their thoughts, ideas and beliefs no matter if you agree with them or not!!!! Their thoughts, beliefs, and thoughts, are not going to be negated any any way just because you do not believe in the same way. They have as much right to express themselves as you do!!!!!
Muslims seem to think they have some right to impose their god and doctrine on us as well and I consider them, one and all, to be zealots and bigots. Do you really think you have the right to join them in the imposition of only your beliefs and faith being forced on others?
One last thing, a Zealot, no matter what flavor, are by definition not rational, seldom truthful and are always dangerous.
Nice try with the straw-man argument, it failed.
translation: I was an NFL player until my price outweighed my usefulness, then I became a disgruntled former NFL player looking for excuses for why “former” is now before “NFL player” in my bio
Your attempt to connect the support of sodomy to other issues conservatives voice approval of is actually a tactic often employed by non-conservatives to make a point.
Additionally, if you support this guy and what he says, why not just come out and say so instead of couching it in a lot of silly “outrage”.
Also, no one, I repeat no one kept him, or you from expressing an opinion. No one “projected” faith on you, no one is a “zealot” for expressing an opinion that what he did in fact support was approval of sodomy.
So, I suggest you chill out a bit, calm down and if you are in favor of him and what he stands for, then say that instead of a lot of juvenile pissiness. Have a nice day!
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