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• VIKGS PUNTER CHRIS KLUWE POS GAY MAGAZE TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• PRO GAY-RIGHTS FORMER NFL PLAYER SUG VIKGS TO RELEASE DISMISSAL REPORT
• VIKGS PUNTER POS FOR GAY MAG
• IS THE NFL PRO-GAY MARRIAGE? DEPENDS WHO YOUR OWNER IS
• IS CHRIS KLUWE GAY? FORMER VIKGS PUNTER ALLEG IN LETTER HE WAS FIRED FOR BEG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ADVOTE
• MNOTA VIKGS PUNTER POS GAY MAGAZE. THIS IS FOR ALL OF YOU LR FOLKS.
• FOR NORSEMAN - VIKGS PUNTER CHRIS KLUWE POS GAY MAGAZE TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGEFOR NORSEMAN - VIKGS PUNTER CHRIS KLUWE POS GAY MAGAZE TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

VIKGS PUNTER CHRIS KLUWE POS GAY MAGAZE TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

"Kluwe has said that he is not gay, and that the subject is not what is important -- to him, this is about g his platform to help a polil sense and fg himself outsi the nf of the football field. Burns Jr., who recently wrote a letter to the Baltimore Ravens to try and stop lebacker Brendon Ayanbajo om speakg out on the same-sex marriage issue, Kluwe had this to say a sthg letter published at Deadsp:I n assure you that gay people gettg married will have zero effect on your life.

PRO GAY-RIGHTS FORMER NFL PLAYER SUG VIKGS TO RELEASE DISMISSAL REPORT

You know what havg the rights will make gays? "I thk there is a much more tolerant atmosphere the NFL now, " he told CNN, when asked if an openly gay player would be accepted the league.

When former Mnota Vikgs punter Chris Kluwe posted an explosive article on Deadsp January, allegg that the team dumped him for beg an outspoken supporter of gay marriage, he knew his reer was pretty much over.

Acrdg to Kluwe’s lawyer, Clayton Halunen, over the past few months he and the Vikgs have discsed terms of a possible settlement, which clud the report gog public, a donatn of $1 ln to two LGBT chari, and a public apology om special teams ordator Mike Priefer, who allegedly said a meetg “we should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then ne until glows. Vikgs punter pos for gay mag.

VIKGS PUNTER POS FOR GAY MAG

The outspoken Vikgs punter and gay rights advote has a polil bone to pick.

IS THE NFL PRO-GAY MARRIAGE? DEPENDS WHO YOUR OWNER IS

Most memorable is a special-teams ach who is openly homophobic toward Kluwe rponse to Kluwe’s activism; at one pot, this ach, Mike Priefer, said, “We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then ne until glows. ” Almost as important are a head ach (Llie Frazier), general manager (Rick Spielman), and team apparat that seem termed to supprs Kluwe’s speech surroundg this NFL—and profsnal men’s sports—clearly has a homophobia problem. That there has been no openly gay active athlete one of the Big Four profsnal men’s sports (arguably exceptg Jason Colls) is proof enough of that.

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

If you need more, check out the recent tizzy over the apparently false mor that Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is gay. If you need more, check out, well, Kluwe’s I don’t thk the NFL’s homophobia problem is the most important takeaway om Kluwe’s post. Society’s homophobia problem will probably never go away, but is head the right directn.

At some pot, profsnal sports will fd eher the moral backbone or the fancial centive to follow su—you n take that, as were, to the stck me most of all about Kluwe’s piece—and, granted, this is partly bee I was totally unsurprised to read about spible homophobia the NFL—was how acceptg everyone was wh the prciple that his employer was permted to massively rtrict his right to speech.

MNOTA VIKGS PUNTER POS GAY MAGAZE. THIS IS FOR ALL OF YOU LR FOLKS.

If Wilf were anti-gay marriage, Kluwe would not be allowed to speak out? 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.

It's worth nng the penultimate paragraph full, if only bee do such a good job of clarifyg the issu:"I n assure you that gay people gettg married will have zero effect on your life. The posns of both men not only reflect how quickly opn is shiftg, but also spotlight the need to check our own prenceptns of the sports world as herently tolerant and homophobic.

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"I strongly believe that goodns is ntag and that others will jump on board as the younger generatn begs to populate the NFL, " he says, wh some jtifitn given a recent poll by, which intified 28 current NFL players who've exprsed support for gay rights. For Max, players like Kluwe and Ayanbajo serve parison to earlier taboo-bters like Branch Rickey, who broke through Major League Baseball's lor barrier by signg Jackie Robson to the Dodgers for Kluwe, takg a stand on gay rights is as stctual as plantg his foot to a ball.

As a tween, gay slurs peppered his speech wh the same heedlsns as his peers. "It's easy to trace Kluwe, the outspoken gay rights advote, through his childhood obssns wh gamg and sci-fi.

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