Jags' Maxen is first male Amerin pro sports ach to e out as gay - ESPN

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• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN JT BEME THE FIRST MALE ACH MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY. HE SAID HE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO 'LIE' OR 'FEEL FEAR' ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE ANYMORE.
• WHO IS KEV MAXEN? MEET NFL'S FIRST GAY MALE ACH
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• IS “PRO-LIFE AND GAY” POSSIBLE?
• WHY MORE AMERINS ARE PRO-LIFE—AND PRO GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY AND PRO-LIFE
• PRO-LIFE ALLIANCE OF GAYS AND LESBIANS +

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen jt beme the first male ach men's pro sports to e out as gay. He said he don't want to have to 'lie' or 'feel fear' about his personal life Maxen jt beme the first-ever publicly out male ach a major men's pro said he no longer wants to "lie" about his life or "feel fear" about how others might are other NFL ach to e out years past, but Maxen is believed to be the first Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, jt publicly me out as gay, makg him the first-ever male ach Amerin profsnal men's sports to do so. Kev Maxen me out as gay an exclive terview wh Outsports.

Kev Maxen was also helped by Carl Nassib, who ma history as the first openly gay active NFL player. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

I am also gay. My Catholic-spired belief the sancty of all human life has played a key role how I have gradually e to accept my sexualy, and acceptg my sexualy has turn strengthened my pro-life belief the sancty of human life was supported by my own stggle to accept myself as a gay person. I never wanted to be gay.

KEV MAXEN JT BEME THE FIRST MALE ACH MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY. HE SAID HE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO 'LIE' OR 'FEEL FEAR' ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE ANYMORE.

I remember my first thought after my first real kiss wh my first real girliend: “Thank God I’m not gay. My own experience leads me to thk that the youthful “Rad Trad” movement clus many young people like myself, people who are lookg to latch onto somethg that appears stable, betiful and belief the sancty of human life was supported by my own stggle to accept myself as a gay person. I accepted that I had been cursed wh some gay feelgs but thought that I uld ignore them and really lean to lovg a young woman as a iend and regnizg her objective bety.

When I started disverg that I am gay, horrified me. Jt as required heroic love and honty to live as an out gay person the 1950s, today requir heroic love and honty to wele a child if you are not a stable relatnship or are hopg to make the work is a siary here between the pro-life and L.

WHO IS KEV MAXEN? MEET NFL'S FIRST GAY MALE ACH

Seeg people who were gay and loved God was important to me my journey.

Each of the people helped me unrstand that I uld accept the feelgs as part of my life rather than try to elimate still tak urage to accept one’s sexualy, there are now lns of exampl our church, fai and the broar world who ttify to the goodns of beg gay. Laye is among a small but vol mory of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Amerins who oppose abortn rights, seeg as an extensn of human rights advocy.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

In the opn of Laye, a self-scribed socialist, the abortn rights movement is “piggybackg” off the gay rights movement, which Laye said is “much more popular” (and the data agre). Herb Geraghty, the group’s executive director and a board member of the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lbians, was “exced” to see what he lled a “monumental expansn of human rights protectns to a margalized group. The Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lbians, which has about 180 active members, lled the cisn “a momento achievement for human rights.

-based nservative gay group Log Cab Republins, said same-sex marriage remas “safe and settled. Dpe celebratg the “victory for the unborn, ” Brown, who has led the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lbians for over two s, said she has mixed feelgs about the Dobbs cisn bee do not addrs the myriad problems that n drive people to seek abortns, such as poverty and a lack of accs to hog and affordable child re.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. -based profsnal league to e out as gay. But Tmp and his supporters are phony hypocr bee they are outspokenly anti-gay.

Upworthy reports that legalizg gay marriage has ed a dramatic drop LGBTQ suici rat.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

One study by Julia Raifman, a rearcher at Johns Hopks’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, showed that the 32 stat that enacted same-sex marriage laws durg the study (prr to natnwi marriage equaly), suici attempts dropped seven percent among all stunts and 14 percent among gay kids after the laws were passed. A 2019 study  Denmark and Swen found siar rults among married gay upl. Gay marriage was ma legal 2009 Swen and 2012 Denmark.

Two of the bills supported “ex-gay” nversn therapy. If they are gay or trans, they are expendable, llateral damage the Culture Wars.

IS “PRO-LIFE AND GAY” POSSIBLE?

“You’re all pro life until the baby is gay”. Aren’t they the on who would support a mother killg her child for beg gay?

Earlier the nventn, Peter Thiel, the founr of PayPal, gave a mostly pro-bs and foreign policy speech, but he received the loust applse when he gratuoly proffered: “I am proud to be gay. But the homosexual stunts—both men and women—were a different story altogether.

WHY MORE AMERINS ARE PRO-LIFE—AND PRO GAY MARRIAGE

) The gays and lbians were universally hostile, and sce the cy of Lawrence pris self on beg a sort of “Midwtern San Francis, ” this populatn was large, loud, and ant. At first, I had been que perplexed by the hostily g om the homosexual muny.

If their own belief about the born nature of homosexualy was te, didn’t abortn also strike at the heart of the gay muny? Homosexualy, pletely divorced om the natural ends of human sexualy, is all about self-gratifitn, g sex for sterile pleasure, emotnal release, ephemeral affective bondg. But this rri an implic judgment agast homosexuals behavg the same way, even if they do not have to worry about pregnancy.

In short, those engaged unashamed homosexual activy ually harbor a very natural antipathy for the sacredns of unborn life, that remr of why we have sexualy the first place. The very last thg most homosexuals re about is the welfare of the next generatn, even the next generatn of potential “gays.

GAY AND PRO-LIFE

This mak the existence of pro-life homosexual groups all the more puzzlg. I don’t wish to qutn the scery of the particular dividuals, nor most of those who are volved PLAGAL, the natnal Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lbians.

It is impossible to avoid the imprsn that some gay and lbian wrers are merely g the pro-life issue to lobby for acceptance of their liftyle.

PRO-LIFE ALLIANCE OF GAYS AND LESBIANS +

For example, one of PLAGAL’s brochur strongly criciz those who ( is claimed) want the pro-life movement to rema “Christian, homophobic, reactnary, anti-pagan, [and] pro-chasty.

Still, I am willg to accept that most of the pro-life homosexuals are scere when they exprs their rejectn of our abortn culture.

So the qutn is, jt how wispread is a pro-life ethic among homosexuals general? ”) No, much more mon the homosexual muny is the stnchly pro-abortn posn of John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney, gay partners and the platiffs the California se for equal marriage rights cid by the California Supreme Court 2008.