Michael
Sam, the first openly gay athlete drafted into the National Football League,
did not make the cut with the St. Louis Rams after it trimmed its roster ahead
of the start of the 2014 season.
Sam has been signed for the practice squad of
the Dallas Cowboys, but given their dismal record of late we are not likely to
hear much other than their losing scores. The only reason I would watch the Cowboys on TV is their cheerleaders!
Now we
will be able to enjoy the season without a story every day about what Michael
Sam did or said. We will not have to endure television interviews of him and
his boyfriend telling us how wonderful it is to be gay in America.
If I never
see a photo of those two kissing one another, I will be happy knowing that
neither will a generation of young boys who want to grow up to be football
players.
If you
think about it, since homosexuals are about two percent of the U.S. population,
it should hardly be newsworthy that a particular athlete is gay. We accept that
there’s a fair percentage of gays in the arts and other fields, but gay
athletes are deemed—at least by the media—to be in some special category.
When it
comes to sports, most of us only want to know if an athlete has won or lost. Writing
for NBC Sports, Michael David Smith probably got the Michael Sam story right.
He reported that Eric Wood, a Bill’s defensive lineman, believes that “teams
are avoiding Sam because they don’t want the ESPN hype that would come with
having Sam.”
The plain
fact of Sam’s fate was that he was not as
good as the others on the preseason team. Prior to the news he was not
signed, Vinnie Iyer, a Huffington Post sports writer, noted “Robert Quinn and
Chris Long are the Ram’s elite starters at defensive end. Veterans William
Hayes and Eugene Sims are the projected backups. Sam’s chief competition,
undrafted fellow rookie Ethan Westbrooks, was better than Sam throughout the
preseason.”
To show
his support, Sam’s boyfriend, Vito Cammisano,
tweeted a photo of the couple together, wearing shirts from the University of
Missouri, where they both attended college. In May, ESPN had aired a
celebratory kiss between the two men. “You know, I can play in this league,”
said Sam. Just barely.
If you
think the media devotes altogether too much “news” about gays, I would be
inclined to agree. There is, however, a massive propaganda campaign conducted
by gay organizations to ensure that their issues are always in the news. They
hardly merit such coverage. Why should their sexual orientation be the subject
of so much coverage? The answer most likely is the intense liberal orientation
of the news media these days.
Nor has
the U.S. ever had such a gay-oriented President as Obama in its history. On
July 21, Obama signed an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from
discriminating “on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.” Obama said, “I firmly believe that it’s time
to address this injustice for every American.” The EO amended a previous one
issued by President Lyndon B Johnson.
Everything
that can be done to undermine the moral values of the nation has been underway
for several decades. In December, a judge appointed by Obama, Robert J. Shelby,
issued an opinion declaring that a right to same-sex marriage is “deeply rooted
in the nation’s history and implicit in the concept of ordered liberty. When he
was confirmed to the federal bench on September 21, 2012, no senator objected.
CNN reporter, Terence P. Jeffrey, said “His opinion could fundamentally alter
American law and culture.”
There is
not a bit of U.S. history or a word in the Constitution to justify Judge
Shelby’s decision.
The media,
according to a June 2013 study released by the Pew Research Center, found that
articles with “statements supporting same-sex marriage outweighed those with
statements opposing it by a margin of roughly 5-to-1.” The study was of nearly
500 stories from March 18 through May 12 “primarily focused on support for the
measure…”
As
children return to schools, K-12, this year, their curriculums will include
support for homosexuality when many older Americans recall that this subject
was never a part of what was taught
when they attended school.
Ensuring
special treatment for gays is now part of many aspects of life in America and
if that isn’t inherently unfair, unequal, and totally out of proportion to the
other 98% of the population, than it is impossible not to conclude it is part
of the government’s and media’s agenda these days.
None of
this bodes well for America.
© Alan
Caruba, 2014
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