Tim Wildmon, president of the Christian
conservative American Family Association (AFA), has come to the
defense of former NFL coach Tony Dungy, who said he would not want to
coach Michael Sam, the NFL's first openly gay player.
“I wouldn't have taken him,” Dungy
told the Tampa
Bay Tribune. “Not because I don't believe Michael Sam
should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of
it. It's not going to be totally smooth. Things will happen.”
Dungy clarified in a statement that he
was referring to the media attention that goes along with drafting an
openly gay player.
The backlash against Dungy included
ESPN commentator Keith Olbermann naming him his “worst person in
sports.”
Wildmon used the incident to launch an
attack against progressives.
“The progressive movement is out to
destroy our country as it has existed,” Wildmon
wrote. “It is against patriotism. It is against religion in
general and is in particular hostile to evangelical Christianity and
traditional Catholicism. It is against borders. It is against
capitalism. It is for high taxation and government control and
regulation of almost everything. It wants people depending on
government so they can be controlled. It believes government debt is
good. It is against our Constitutional Bill of Rights, in particular
the First and Second Amendments. It is for abortion on demand even
through nine months of pregnancy. It wants to downgrade the American
military. It rejects the idea that Western Civilization is superior
to other civilizations. And it most certainly is for promoting the
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement and punishing people
who dare speak against it.”
“Sexually, God made man for woman and
woman for man. It's obvious. It's natural. Progressives can't
stand this. So they are always trying to equate homosexuality with
heterosexuality or elevate homosexuality over heterosexuality. When
someone like Dungy makes a comment that can in any way been seen as
challenging this narrative then that person must be immediately
discredited or publicly shamed no matter the truth of what he is
saying.”
“By the way, having been a sports
reporter for a few years I've been in many football locker rooms
where the players walk around naked or half-naked, changing clothes
and going in and out of the showers. Putting a man like Sam, who
says he is sexually attracted to men, in with all that beefcake seems
unfair to the straight players and a distraction to Sam,” he added.