Well said, Anubis. My comment earlier about hoping to hear less, is me saying "I hope that eventually we'll come to the realization that is a norm in modern society and that everyone is entitled to their individual rights and then we won't have to hear about it again."
I disagree. It will always bother me to know what I don't want to know and take precautions to not have to know.
I'll have to disagree with this. We've all seen who the media destroys and it's not the gay community.
By destroying him, I don't mean run a smear campaign. I mean they would have taken a very private detail and put it out there for the public to see before he was ready. I mean it's already been more or less stated that TMZ was sitting on a video of Sam dancing at a Gay Bar. Do we know that this is who was threatening to leak details? No. But the media put Sam in a position of which he could either come out, or be outed by the media themselves. And knowing the majority demographic that involves themselves in the football world, be it players, coaches and/or fans, it could have hurt his reputation severely if he were to be outed by some Gay Bar Dancing Video. And in essence, that could have destroyed him. I stand by that comment.
All he did was to make himself a distraction, and I can't think of any teams that are interested in drafting distractions. He also, probably, cost himself quite a bit of money. Being gay isn't a medical condition. He is who he is. Why do we need to know about it?
he'd already admitted to 100 college teammates he was gay and i saw in a recent interview he said had been openly dating a man. my guess is in football circles, his orientation wasn't a secret. maybe he did want to get out in front of a national story, and that's probably a shrewd move.
Irregardless, there was a media member who meant to expose details of his private life in an attempt to extort and/or harm him. He didn't expect the world to bow down when he made his comments. He said what he said, asked to be judged as an athlete by what he does on the field and for the rest to be to let go. I think that's about as reasonable a comment as any.
Here's the reason you need to know about it. You need to know about it because Texas still elects legislators who have either passed or continue to maintain anti-gay laws. You should know who people in Texas are discriminating against when they elect representatives who promote those prejudices. Like this fine young man, Michael Sam. Michael Sam is playing football in a state which, like Texas, also discriminates against homosexuals. Until this civil rights issue is corrected it will get and deserves to get a lot of attention.
