Quote:Let me take a shot. Being attracted to a woman is a given; it's expected.

 

By coming out as gay he's trying to show that such a situation can be looked at as ok, as not bizarre and heinous. Despite all the laws against gays, all the religious condemnation (and persecution), all the jokes, all the "get out of my house and never come back!", all the crap, that being gay is just the way some people are - not a choice any more than you chose to have brown eyes.

 

And he's a football player! If people can accept football players as being gay, perhaps they can accept them as being ok. Different, but ok. 

 

You know, like being Jewish, lol. The ignorance of us non-Jews about what being Jewish is all about is, to me at least, similar to what we heterosexuals know about being homosexual.