Brittney Griner: Kim Mulkey said to keep sexuality quiet to not hurt Baylor’s recruiting

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http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/brittney-griner-kim-mulkey-said-to-keep-sexuality-quiet-to-not-hurt-baylors-recruiting.html/

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‘It was a recruiting thing,’ Griner said to ESPN The Magazine. ‘The coaches thought that if it seemed like they condoned it, people wouldn’t let their kids come play for Baylor.

‘It was more of a unwritten law [to not discuss your sexuality] … it was just kind of, like, one of those things, you know, just don’t do it,’ Griner went on to say. ‘They kind of tried to make it, like, ‘Why put your business out on the street like that?”

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At Baylor, the student handbook has a section labeled ‘sexual misconduct’ that says, ‘Christian churches across the ages and around the world have affirmed purity in singleness and fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman as the biblical norm. Temptations to deviate from this norm include both heterosexual sex outside of marriage and homosexual behavior. It is thus expected that Baylor students will not participate in advocacy groups which promote understandings of sexuality that are contrary to biblical teaching.’

Griner said that during her recruiting process with Mulkey, she told her coach that she was gay.

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As a parent, I don't know if I'd let my child be recruited by a school with that sort of "unwritten rule."