49ers’ Culliver Aplogizes For ‘Gay Players Not Welcome’ Remarks

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10. As Usual, In the Comments to the Article There is This:

"why do people have to apologize for having morals that are sustained in their religious beliefs?"

So, not being able to stop myself I replied:

Because an NFL football team is anything but a religious organization. So there is no basis whatsoever for discriminating against a gay player and not wanting them to be on the team. He's welcome to his beliefs, morals and religion. He's not welcome to insist a secular organization follow them. If a gay player joins the team he's free to resign from the team if it offends his morals or if he's under the delusion that just because he's another male all gay men want him so he can't be in the locker room with them.

Perhaps Culliver should familiarize himself with history and remember it wasn't all that long ago white players would have said the same sorts of things about having him on the team.

So his ability to forget the still recent (and continuing) discrimination of African Americans and be able to feel free to demean gays for "that sweet stuff" is just as bad as when whites stereotyped African Americans as "shucking and jiving."

That's why he needs to apologize.