NY Giants Defend David Tyree After Heo Anti-Gay Comments Come to Light - Human Rights Campaign

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• DAVID TYREE ON GAY MARRIAGE: I'D GIVE UP SUPER BOWL TO BLOCK IT
• NY GIANTS DEFEND DAVID TYREE AFTER HEO ANTI-GAY COMMENTS COME TO LIGHT
• A GAY CHRISTIAN ATHLETE'S LETTER TO DAVID TYREE
• NY GIANTS DIRECTOR OF PLAYER VELOPMENT DAVID TYREE REVERS GAY STANCE
• SUPER BOWL HERO DAVID TYREE CALLS GAY MARRIAGE 'ANARCHY'
• EX-GIANT DAVID TYREE: GAY MARRIAGE COULD LEAD TO 'ANARCHY'
• DAVID TYREE WOULD TRA HIS TCH TO STOP GAY MARRIAGE
• FORMER NEW YORK GIANT DAVID TYREE SPEAKS OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE, CLAIMS LEADS TO ANARCHY
• MEET NEW YORK GIANTS' DAVID TYREE'S ANTI-GAY 'SPIRUAL MOTHER,' WHO SAYS JEWS 'OWN EVERYTHG'
• DAVID TYREE: I WOULD SUPPORT ANY GIANTS PLAYER WHO INTIFIED AS GAY
• DAVID TYREE SAYS HE'D 'ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT' GAY PLAYER ON GIANTS
• NY GIANTS DIRECTOR OF PLAYER VELOPMENT DAVID TYREE NTU TO MAKE PROGRS WH GAY MUNY
• DAVID TYREE SAYS HE 'WOULD ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT ANY PLAYER ON THE GIANTS WHO INTIFIED AS GAY'
• DAVID TYREE, WHO SAID HE’D TRA SUPER BOWL IF MEANT STOPPG GAY MARRIAGE, JOS NY GIANTS AS DIRECTOR OF PLAYER VELOPMENT

DAVID TYREE ON GAY MARRIAGE: I'D GIVE UP SUPER BOWL TO BLOCK IT

Wrer for The Detro Free Prs (1999-2005)Known primarily for makg an unfettable tch, David Tyree lately has been speakg some pretty unfettable, whose tch Super Bowl XLII is among the most amazg plays NFL postseason history, has drawn wispread cricism for his strong opposn to gay marriage. The issue is a hot topic New York, where the state legislature is currently nsirg whether to make New York the sixth state to legalize same-sex a recent vio for the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, Tyree said passage of a gay marriage bill would lead to "anarchy.

" He followed that up by tellg the New York Daily News on Monday that he would tra his inic tch and the Super Bowl victory over the Patrts for a ban on gay you're expectg Tyree to rent anythg he said, prepare to be disappoted. Though The New York Tim reported recently that his views might be "evolvg, " Print Barack Obama, who will vis New York this week, is on rerd as supportg civil unns for gay upl but not same-sex marriage, cg his relig this isn't really about how we dividually feel about same-sex marriage. "In fairns, Tyree said he supports laws that would extend benefs to gay upl, and he has no issu wh any of the athlet who have taken a pro-gay marriage posn.

NY GIANTS DEFEND DAVID TYREE AFTER HEO ANTI-GAY COMMENTS COME TO LIGHT

"Sce Tyree don't support gay marriage, do tomatilly mean he's homophobic? Former New York Giants receiver and Super Bowl XLII hero David Tyree recently said he that he would tra his champnship moment and his team's tle to stop gay marriage.

A GAY CHRISTIAN ATHLETE'S LETTER TO DAVID TYREE

"When asked if he would tra the Super Bowl to block gay marriage, Tyree said he "probably would. "Last week, Tyree said gay marriage uld lead to "anarchy.

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NY GIANTS DIRECTOR OF PLAYER VELOPMENT DAVID TYREE REVERS GAY STANCE

By promotg the harmful personal views shroud as facts, there’s no qutn that he’s flictg lastg damage on dividuals – pecially young people victimized by adults who see his words as license to try and ‘cure’ their homosexualy wh physil and psychologil torture tactics. In 2011 durg the public mpaign surroundg marriage equaly legislatn the New York state legislature, Tyree stated that he would have rather lost the Super Bowl than allow gay and lbian upl to legally marry, claimg that would lead to “anarchy.

Spzer, nsired by many to be the father of morn psychiatry, retracted and apologized for the years he spent suggtg that homosexualy uld be cured, sayg that was the only regret of his reer. Tyree later stated he would tra the tch and the Giants’ Super Bowl victory orr to rtrict marriage om gay and lbian upl, referrg to the bate on legislatn New York that allowed same-sex upl to wed.

No credible dividual believ that there will be anarchy Ameri if marriage equaly is extend natnwi, as is evinced by recent pollg nducted by Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly.

SUPER BOWL HERO DAVID TYREE CALLS GAY MARRIAGE 'ANARCHY'

Three years ago he said he opposed same-sex marriage and supported "gay nversn therapy.

EX-GIANT DAVID TYREE: GAY MARRIAGE COULD LEAD TO 'ANARCHY'

But your statements the past about the LGBT muny and endorsement of the dangero practice of nversn therapy break my heart as an openly gay Christian man. I knew I was gay early at a young age.

I was told the stereotypil mantra that beg "gay" was unnatural and an abomatn before God. So I did everythg possible not to be "gay" cludg "nversn therapy.

DAVID TYREE WOULD TRA HIS TCH TO STOP GAY MARRIAGE

For six months I participated this dangero form of opprsive therapy wh the now disband Exod Internatnal Ex-Gay Mistry.

This therapy has no efficy behd , jt fuzzy homophobic jargon. I personally experienced group ssns where I was told I was gay bee of an absent father or overbearg mother. I was promised I uld change, that I uld pray the gay away.

FORMER NEW YORK GIANT DAVID TYREE SPEAKS OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE, CLAIMS LEADS TO ANARCHY

Tyree is you'll regnize that although Michael Sam may be the first openly gay player to be drafted to the NFL, he won't be the last and isn't the only gay man the NFL. David Tyree, who beme as famo for his anti-gay ments as he did for the amazg receptn that helped the Giants feat the New England Patrts Super Bowl XLII, has had a big change of Can Play executive director Wa Davis said the Giants' new director of player velopment told him he is no longer an advote of gay nversn therapy — and that he is open to meetg and beiendg homosexuals, acrdg to Outsports and a lumn Davis wrote for Sports Illtrated's Monday Morng Quarterback blog on Thursday. "Christiany teach love, passn and rpect for our fellow man, and is that light that I will ntue to work wh Wa and others to better serve the gay muny, " Davis quoted Tyree sayg his SI lumn.

"I would absolutely support any player on the Giants who intified as gay, any way I uld.

"Outsports, meanwhile, reported that Davis, the former NFL player who now heads the anizatn dited to endg homophobia sports, says Tyree told him that he would have no problem havg Michael Sam, the St. Louis Rams rookie who is the NFL's first openly gay player, jo the Giants.

MEET NEW YORK GIANTS' DAVID TYREE'S ANTI-GAY 'SPIRUAL MOTHER,' WHO SAYS JEWS 'OWN EVERYTHG'

"He said he had no problem wh Michael's sexual orientatn, and that his job is to make the players better, and that he needs to make sure he gets better, too, and that he needs to unrstand the damage of thgs that he's done the past, " Davis told Outsports edor Cyd Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights anizatn, ripped the Giants twice this week for hirg Tyree, who mpaigned agast the New York State marriage equaly bill that beme law 2011. He has also publicly advoted for gay nversn therapy, a ntroversial practice that has been wily nmned by the Amerin Medil Associatn and other public health Can Play founr Patrick Burke phed back on Twter this week: He said that Tyree had recently spoken to Davis and suggted that Tyree's views on homosexualy had Pstripe ExprsWeeklyThe Daily News sports edors handpick the week’s bt Yanke stori om our award-wng lumnists and beat wrers. As the Daily News prevly reported, Davis and Tyree spoke aga on Wednday hasn't publicly distanced himself om his anti-gay ments om three years ago, but Davis said Tyree has changed his tune, pecially when to gay nversn therapy.

"Verbatim, he said he don't thk 'anyone needs that kd of therapy, ' " Davis told said Tyree approached him after the You Can Play activist spoke at the NFL rookie symposium last month and thanked him for the work he has done changg opns about homosexualy the NFL.

"He approached me, troduced himself, offered his hand and said, 'I want you to know I really rpect what you do, '" Davis wrote said he thks Tyree "feels badly" about his anti-gay ments, acrdg to Outsports.

DAVID TYREE: I WOULD SUPPORT ANY GIANTS PLAYER WHO INTIFIED AS GAY

"He did meet a uple people who told him they were ex-gays.

He said he hasn't met a ton of people who are gay but that he's lookg to velop a long relatnship wh me and other gay people to learn more about . NEW YORK -- Former New York Giants wi receiver David Tyree -- bt known for makg the famo "helmet tch" durg Super Bowl XLII -- spoke out agast gay marriage Wednday, claimg is the first step towards "anarchy. "In an terview wh anti-gay group the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, Tyree also said two men or two women were pable of raisg a child, TMZ reported.

"You n't teach somethg that you don't have, so two men will never be able to show a woman how to be a woman, " the 31-year-old issue of same-sex unns is currently unr the spotlight New York, wh the state assembly late Wednday passg a gay marriage bill that will next go before state what he thought would happen if gay marriage was legalized across the U. He retired 2010 as a one-time Pro Bowler and All-Pro selectn, but is bt remembered for his helmet tch the Giants' 17-14 Super Bowl XLII w agast the New England Patrts, which led to quarterback Eli Manng's game-wng 13-yard touchdown pass to Plaxi Burrs 24 sends would be Tyree's last tch an NFL game as jury hampered the remar of his polls have dited that more than 50 percent of New Yorkers support gay marriage, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this the bill pass, New York -- wh a populatn of 19 ln -- would be the sixth and by far the most populo state wh gay stat -- Iowa, New Hampshire, Massachetts, Connecticut and Vermont -- along wh the District of Columbia now grant marriage licens to same-sex upl, while the issue is before the urts California. "[O]nce you allow somethg like same-sex marriage, opens up the door for a ntual softeng to the backbone of our society, which will eventually, for generatns to e, open up the door for who knows, polygamy, and all other [thgs], ” Tyree said that he don’t oppose marriage-style benefs for gay upl.

DAVID TYREE SAYS HE'D 'ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT' GAY PLAYER ON GIANTS

Former New York Giant wi receiver David Tyree has e out volly agast gay marriage, rerdg a vio for anti-equaly anizatn NOM (vio after the jump).

He talks about how children need fathers (th two lbians n't be parents) and mothers (th two gay men n't be parents). If they pass this gay-marriage will be the begng of our untry slidg toward, 's a strong word but, anarchy....

NY GIANTS DIRECTOR OF PLAYER VELOPMENT DAVID TYREE NTU TO MAKE PROGRS WH GAY MUNY

But even more than that, I know hate bee gave this anti-equaly homophobe a platform om which to speak. Giant ins Michael Strahan and Steve Tisch earlier issued support for gay marriage. Jeremy Shockey, formerly of the Giants, is known for sayg he didn't want to have a gay teammate.

DAVID TYREE SAYS HE 'WOULD ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT ANY PLAYER ON THE GIANTS WHO INTIFIED AS GAY'

The Giants' recent hirg of former player Tyree as director of player velopment me unr tense cricism last week, cludg by the Human Rights Campaign a strongly word prs release, and by me, bee of his past anti-gay advocy, homophobic statements and belief that gays n be turned straight. Daniels is also at the foreont of the Christian extremists attackg LGBT rights and believ that homosexuals n pray away the gay. Here are excerpts om "Confsn to Come Out of Homosexualy/Lbianism" om her 2009 book, Prayers That Brg Change:I no longer nform to and subject myself unr the words and thory of the homosexual agenda....

I e agast the visn of the rabow that reprented a venant between the vil and here are excerpts om "Prayer Agast the Homosexual Agenda (or Same-Sex Marriag)" om the same book:We curse gay pri to the root and clare that is is nothg to be proud of; is an abomatn the ey of the Lord.... We e agast the wchcraft that is workg behd the scen of the homosexual year before Daniels wrote that book, she -wrote a book wh Tyree, then a wi receiver for the Giants, who'd been taken to her fold.

DAVID TYREE, WHO SAID HE’D TRA SUPER BOWL IF MEANT STOPPG GAY MARRIAGE, JOS NY GIANTS AS DIRECTOR OF PLAYER VELOPMENT

Several years later, 2011, Tyree beme a spokperson for the anti-gay Natnal Organizatn for Marriage (NOM), as I discsed last week, and said that gay marriage would lead to "anarchy" and "lawlsns.

" He then claimed that he'd met some of the "many former homosexual men and women, " and that there are "hundreds of former homosexuals. Last week, after Tyree was named director of player velopment for the Giants -- a job the ach scribed as helpg athlet al wh personal issu and velopment, which nceivably uld be homosexualy -- the Giants seemed pletely taken aback by the cricism, wh General Manager Jerry Ree tryg to downplay Tyree's past and fendg the me the You Can Play Project, -found 2012 by current print Patrick Burke, a straight ally of gay rights. (His now-ceased brother, an athlete, was gay.