Did the Vikgs Cut Chris Kluwe For His Gay-Rights Activism? | The New Yorker

Contents:

• IS CHRIS KLUWE GAY? FORMER VIKGS PUNTER ALLEG IN LETTER HE WAS FIRED FOR BEG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ADVOTE
• "THEY WON'T MAGILLY TURN YOU INTO A LTFUL COCKMONSTER": CHRIS KLUWE EXPLAS GAY MARRIAGE TO THE POLICIAN WHO IS OFFEND BY AN NFL PLAYER SUPPORTG IT
• KLUWE: RISK BEG OPENLY GAY NFL
• CHRIS KLUWE'S RELEASE BY VIKGS SENDS MSAGE THAT GAY-MARRIAGE TALK IS NOT TOLERABLE NFL
• WE’RE ALL VIKGS FANS TODAY: CHRIS KLUWE KICKS EMMETT BURNS’S GAY MARRIAGE BIGOTRI
• NFL PLAYER EARNS SPOT ON MSNBC AFTER PRO-GAY MARRIAGE LETTER GO VIRAL
• DID THE VIKGS CUT CHRIS KLUWE FOR HIS GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISM?

IS CHRIS KLUWE GAY? FORMER VIKGS PUNTER ALLEG IN LETTER HE WAS FIRED FOR BEG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ADVOTE

The former player, 32, alleged he was a victim of homophobic remarks by Vikgs special-teams ordator Mike Inter has th been sent to a tailsp, wonrg if the Kluwe is gay. But although he's an advote for same-sex marriage, Kluwe isn't gay, acrdg to the New York Daily Deadsp's Thursday article, tled “I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot, ” the former Vikg stat that he n't be sure if he was outright released due to his activism, but that he is “pretty nfint was” the ntued: "The NFL has bee such a rporate mdset.

Over the past uple of years, the former punter has bee known for his gay-rights activism, and an article published Thursday on the webse Deadsp he claimed he was fired by “Two Cowards And a Bigot” for his stance and not entirely for his performance on the field. Kluwe: An openly gay player the NFL is not a distractn. Opn: Pro sports, still homophobic 2014.

"THEY WON'T MAGILLY TURN YOU INTO A LTFUL COCKMONSTER": CHRIS KLUWE EXPLAS GAY MARRIAGE TO THE POLICIAN WHO IS OFFEND BY AN NFL PLAYER SUPPORTG IT

Today, April 30, 2013, I am wrg an acunt of events that transpired durg my time wh the Mnota Vikgs durg the 2012 NFL season and leadg to the 2013 season (so I don't fet them se is necsary to rell what happened) the summer of 2012, I was approached by a group lled Mnotans for Marriage Equaly, which asked if I would be terted helpg feat what was known as the Mnota Gay Marriage Amendment.

Throughout the months of September, October, and November, Mnota Vikgs special-teams ordator Mike Priefer would e homophobic language my prence. He would ask me if I had wrten any letters fendg "the gays" recently and nounce as disgtg the ia that two men would kiss, and he would nstantly beltle or mean any ia of acceptance or tolerance. Mike Priefer also said on multiple ocsns that I would wd up burng hell wh the gays, and that the only tth was J Christ and the Bible.

KLUWE: RISK BEG OPENLY GAY NFL

As we sat down our chairs, Mike Priefer, one of the meant voic I n ever rell hearg, said: "We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then ne until glows. So will ask if the NFL has a problem wh stutnalized homophobia.

I thk there are homophobic people the NFL, all posns, but that's te for society as well, and those people eventually get replaced.

: Vikgs say they'll vtigate | Mike Priefer rpondsSee also: "They Won't Magilly Turn You Into A Ltful Cockmonster": Chris Kluwe Explas Gay Marriage To A Polician Chris Kluwe spent eight years as the Vikgs punter. Baltimore Ravens lebacker Brendon Ayanbajo has spoken out favor of a Maryland ballot iative that would legalize gay marriage. How do gay marriage, any way shape or form, affect your life?

CHRIS KLUWE'S RELEASE BY VIKGS SENDS MSAGE THAT GAY-MARRIAGE TALK IS NOT TOLERABLE NFL

If gay marriage be legal, are you worried that all of a sudn you'll start thkg about penis? Gay marriage jt passed. " Will all of your iends sudnly turn gay and refe to e to your Sunday Ticket grill-outs?

(Unlikely, sce gay people enjoy watchg football too. )I n assure you that gay people gettg married will have zero effect on your life.

WE’RE ALL VIKGS FANS TODAY: CHRIS KLUWE KICKS EMMETT BURNS’S GAY MARRIAGE BIGOTRI

You know what havg the rights will make gays? I've also been vol as hell about the issue of gay marriage so you n take your "I know of no other NFL player who has done what Mr.

Follow him on Twter, ALSO: Here's Chris Kluwe Explag Why He Wrote Today's Rponse To An Anti-Gay Marriage Polician Thanks To Chris Kluwe, Gay-Bag Maryland Legislator Decis NFL Players Have A Right To Say What They Thk After All. Kluwe: Risk beg openly gay NFL. Mnota Vikgs punter Chris Kluwe talks to Anrson Cooper about same-sex marriage and openly gay players the NFL.

In the past year, Kluwe's activism has gone om plats about labor issu to the third rail to sports executiv: gay rights. Two football players have spoken loud for gay rights issu the last several months, specifilly gay marriage: Kluwe and Brendon Ayanbajo. The reactn to the gay-marriage issue always seemed strange to him.

NFL PLAYER EARNS SPOT ON MSNBC AFTER PRO-GAY MARRIAGE LETTER GO VIRAL

Football players aren't stg locker rooms worryg who among them might be gay.

Yet when nonted wh a skilled player g off his bt season who fends gay marriage on Twter, the ax to st Chris Kluwe asi than let him poison a locker room wh … well, what exactly?

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DID THE VIKGS CUT CHRIS KLUWE FOR HIS GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISM?

He uld have taken Ayanbajo head on if he wanted to, bated him (prumably wh evince) over whether children n be stable hom if those hom are led by gays or lbians.

Burns uld have even ed the power of his office to attack Ayanbajo randomly and baselsly, as opponents of gay marriage ually do (bee beyond their reliance on the fanci and cherry-picked bigotri of Scriptur, they have not one wh of evince they uld prent agast the soundns of gay marriage).