northeast va's classic rock rock 107 good morning prospector here on what's
good trying to be a nice day cloudy skies 77 degrees obviously big news
Michael Sam drafted by the st. Louis Rams the other day the first openly gay
player drafted in the NFL and it's causing a lot of a lot of news a lot of
buzz about it from all sectors of life there's a story on something called
Talking Points Memo com where some conservatives and some Christians are
saying that Michael Sam is being treated better for being gay then Tim Tebow was
for being Christian that there's a double standard there on the phone with
us this morning Jennifer LeClaire from charisma news fun I'm doing great thanks
for having me on that's my pleasure now talk a little bit about your feelings
about Michael Sam and if you feel there's any kind of double standard
between the way he's being treated and the way maybe Tim Tebow was treated in
his career yeah I think Michael Sam is a wonderful talent I'm glad that he has an
opportunity to play in the NFL and sure it's a dream come true you know more
power to him but yeah I do think a double standard is probably not the
exact words but the best ones I can think to describe what's happening i
mean i think the Marcus Walker college player said you know y'all praised
Michael Stanford being gay but y'all mocked Tim Tebow for being a Christian
and that's exactly what's going on here it's like really did not not involved
but you know you know homosexuality is it's all politically correct I mean the
case i think was inappropriate everyone's talking about you know the
kiss you know and in the backlash that miami dolphins defensive back don Jones
got you know he talked about the kiss he didn't like it and basically he was a
fine then now he's suspended until he gets uh you know training for how to
talk in the media so yeah I think there's definitely something going on
here now you know it's funny could you bring up jamarcus de Marcus Walker and
when I saw that tweet exactly the court again you were pretty rough spot on you
all praise Michael Sam for being gay but y'all mock Tim Tebow for being Christian
smh for shaking my head hashtag society my thought was you know I mean it was I
didn't think anybody mock Tebow for being Christian as much as he was
overhyped and overexposed mean by the same token Kurt Warner Christian a
player didn't get the crap that Tebow did because he played well for most of
the security overhyped coming in so i'm not sure if
there's a double standard in that respect well you know I'd like i said i
don't know that double standard is really the right phrase but there's
definitely there's definitely something congruence here i agree that tim tebow
was hiked and he was very out there with his face but you they are then when he
lost his spot in the NFL people were actually celebrating may go back and
find some of the articles you know it's tourism right you know who did you think
he was I mean you know that kind of stuff why is it okay for one side about
the other I mean where's the level playing field here and I don't see one
yeah I mean I would agree with that i mean i'm a free speech guy i think that
you have the right to speak your mind at all times you also have the right to
understand that there's repercussions from it from society and employers that
as long as the government doesn't get involved i'm fine with it I mean I feel
bad for a guy who gets suspended by his own team for something that he said in
the media but by the same token I I feel like his employer has a right to protect
the image of the team and I feel that that's what they're doing there I you
know I think that the employer does have that right I mean you know you know what
you're signing up for when you when you walk in the door you have to know that
when you make sort those sorts of comments that people are going to get
mad and there's going to be some backlash but no one was giving folks a
Christian sensitivity training when they were going after Tebow or others or just
in general society yeah you know what maybe there should be a Christian 7
sensitivity training I'll try I mean I mean I'm not out to offend people I just
like to speak my mind I have opinions they're not always right obviously I
feel like my opinions are right but you know I'm not infallible few of us are
but well I you know here's the one thing I saw your quote in the USA Today that
there have been many professional sports players who were gay and didn't go to
great lengths to hide it but didn't feel the need to sit with major media and
discuss it either I mean I'm not sure the Michael Sam came out because he
wanted to come out there was some reports that he was going to be outed
and he decided to control the narrative I mean either way it does it make you
uncomfortable that he's out there talking about his sexuality or is it
really not an issue for you you know it's not an issue for me in the sense
that people can talk about what they want to talk about what bothers me is
how it just overtakes the median how big a story it is and how people say what
should matter if he's gay the same thing with
Jason Collins in the NBA it shouldn't matter if you scale it doesn't matter
then why are we all talking about it is a distraction from the game I mean
that's the bottom line yeah I think the only reason we're still talking about
this kind of stuff is because you know it's like I like it it to being a black
person in the 40s who played and it just wasn't brought it like you know Jackie
Robinson he's like a big what's the word I'm looking for here he comes on the
scene everybody's talking about he's the first african-american player to play
baseball because you're the first to do it it gets a lot of players I that's the
way I view it anyway I think there's a even I think that's reasonable and I
understand why people are talking about it but you have those who say it
shouldn't matter shit matter it shouldn't matter but those are the same
ones that are talking about a talking about it talking about it so that's sort
of a double standard himself yeah I mean it's let me be clear you're not saying
that he shouldn't play football or anything like that as a matter of fact
I'll front you said it's a great opportunity for him and you wish him
well correct absolutely I mean I wish everybody was he's a phenomenal player
i'm sure it'll do well i hope that he does i hope that he doesn't get
distracted by all of this sort of thing because you know he deserves you know
the sea level playing field he deserves to go in there and not be so overrun by
publicity that is a distraction for his team and I hope that doesn't happened
that's why I wish we all just you know yeah I hope this dies down i understand
i do understand while we're talking about if i hope that it dies down and
that it doesn't become this big thing like it did with Tebow or just follows
him everywhere he goes yeah I would agree with that I hope it dies down and
I think in you know years time with you and I will never have a discussion about
this again and I hope that's where it goes you know there's more important
things to be talking about Jennifer that's right I agree what do you want to
talk about this important well you know oh that's a whole long subject Jennifer
LeClaire from charisma news obviously it's a Christian magazine a very well
thought out person this morning and what I like about you much like me you're not
out to attack other people you just have a viewpoint you want to say it and go
from there I appreciate your time this morning thank you so much