People Are Dunking On The Catholic League’s Confusing Tweet About Gay Football Players

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June 23, 2021, 6:19 am

Anytime a public figure comes out as LGBTQ, there’s some amount of backlash. Of course, that also demonstrates exactly why it’s still so important that people come out and be visible—there’s still hatred, ignorance, and an inarguable lack of inequality in the world when it comes to something as simple as who you love.

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This week’s announcement from NFL player Carl Nassib about his own sexuality has been no exception. Much of the pushback centered around the idea that football players should just shut up and play their game (something that nobody ever says if they mention anything indicating they’re straight, naturally), and then there was the Catholic League.

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The organization “for religious and civil rights” took an odd approach to Nassib’s revelation on Twitter. 

“How would the Left react if a gay football player came out and said he self-identifies as straight?” they wrote. “Their heads would explode.”

How would the Left react if a gay football player came out and said he self-identifies as straight? Their heads would explode.

— Catholic League (@CatholicLeague) June 22, 2021

It’s a bizarre hypothetical that one can only assume is based in the way some Christianity-based religions have started dealing with LGBTQ parishioners, admitting that sure, God may have made someone gay, but the appropriate thing to do is to fight the “sin” and outwardly be straight (or celibate) anyway.

But bizarre is the keyword here, with this hypothetical being so far removed from reality that it became all too easy for people to dunk on it.

there’s a lot about this that would make my head explode, and literally no part of it is what they seem to think https://t.co/Zh9T5AelMQ

— the heath (2013) (@feeltheheath) June 23, 2021

Confronted with the simple existence of a single openly gay football player, and the hinges just blow right their doors.

These are not minds that have ever equipped themselves to deal with reality.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) June 23, 2021

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I think he should still be allowed to play gay football

— Cari Hernandez (@eatinginmycar) June 22, 2021

I mean very positively

— Josh sighed in relief Gentges (@jgentgesdo) June 22, 2021

Oh yeah, well how would gay be if you were someplace and like then straight about it to everyone instead and then you church about it? Heads would explode. https://t.co/Md0fcqUkTe

— rb (@RheaButcher) June 23, 2021

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Can we file Gay Football Players Who Are Straight under “+”? That’s a lot of letters to add all at once otherwise.

— Daniel Summers, MD (@WFKARS) June 22, 2021

You’ve self identified as really dumb, and we haven’t even flinched https://t.co/9qEOYtUceN

— ᎠᏌNᎬᎷYᎢᎻᎪNᏩ IS FULLY VACCINATED (@Kris_Sacrebleu) June 23, 2021

whoa did tebow do this and i not notice?

— Garbage Ape (@GarbageApe) June 22, 2021

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How would the Catholic Church react if this country started taxing them, since they want to be all political about who gets communion?

Separation of church and state. Remember that old chestnut? pic.twitter.com/h0rz5lAjqv

— Fully Pfizered 5G Faction #WearAMask (@ThunderHeadFan) June 22, 2021

They’re so sure we’re just the mirror image of their intolerance. They can’t even imagine just being tolerant.

— jingleheimer schmidt (@psuedonymoustwt) June 22, 2021

I hesitate to use the phrase “stupidest sentiment ever expressed by a human being since the beginning of time” but this is the stupidest sentiment expressed by a human being since the beginning of time. https://t.co/y98uN8mOnz

— Nathan Rabin (@nathanrabin) June 22, 2021

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*First Published: June 23, 2021, 6:19 am