Ken Hutcherson caught the public eye as a football player. Fast forward a few decades and he's a right wing preacher and launching shareholder mutiny against gay-friendly Microsoft.

Some consider Hutcherson a simple wack-job, but journo Anthony Robinson wonders if he's not a bit more dangerous:

…Hutcherson was preaching on gender roles. During his sermon, Hutcherson stated, "God hates soft men" and "God hates effeminate men." Hutcherson went on to say, "If I was in a drugstore and some guy opened the door for me, I'd rip his arm off and beat him with the wet end."

"That was a joke," Hutcherson said Friday, when I asked him about the comment. But it's not really funny, is it?

What it sounds like are the kinds of words that have paved the way for atrocities in such places as Serbia, Kosovo and Rwanda.

Um, duh! Where do you think Hutcherson gets all his material?

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• Run for your lives! The gay bear internet wars have begun!

• Donald Trump loves Rudy Giuliani's titties!

• John Edwards caved! Fired bloggers!

• Britney Spears can't get enough vagina! She loves it! She wishes she could lick it right now. If you had a vagina, she'd probably lick it and then say, "Damn, I love vagina"! (We can't stop exclaiming! Someone call for help!)

• Your local gay-straight alliance was watched a bit more closely by the Department of Defense than they previously let on to. [Advocate]

• The NFL opened its rookie training symposium with an openly gay speaker (a NFL vice president, no less) at its diversity training seminar. In the program's 10-year history, this is a first. [Out Sports]

• Remember today's item about the New York Giants' Michael Strahan not surrounding himself with hot chicks to fight rumors he's gay? Turns out someone from his camp was owed a favor — and now Page Six is running an item about Strahan's heterosexual antics. [Page Six]

• Logo hits iTunes, in case you want to download any of their mediocre programming to watch on the subway. [Logo Blog

Lately, we've heard from almost all queer ex-NFL players who have been brave enough to come out of the locker room - not really much of a big deal since there are only three. Dave Kopay turned up over the holidays, followed by Roy Simmons who is making the publicity rounds promoting his new book. That only leaves ex-Atlanta Falcon Esera Tuaolo. Well he's surfaced and, natch, has his very own book to publicize. Tuaolo talks about his own closeted Super Bowl experience.

One of Tuaolo's toughest moments came right after the 1999 Super Bowl in which the Denver Broncos defeated his team, the Atlanta Falcons. The team bus returned to their hotel and all the players' wives and families were out waiting for them. Tuaolo's life-partner, Mitchell Wherley, was there, but they did not dare approach each other in public.

"It hurt," said Tuaolo. "Seeing the smiles of the other families, how the players held their wives and being able to be free to be themselves. Here we were in the closet, running in the shadows. Coming off that bus, and seeing all the wives and families come up and hug the players, because that was what we needed. We had just lost a game we should have won. The Super Bowl - something that important, you can't get that back."

Very sad, yes. But now we'll be playing close attention during the Super Bowl this weekend, looking to see if we can spot the one player with the perfectly coifed hair and immaculate dress who isn't instantly bombarded by a wife or a girlfriend.

Gay in the NFL [Pride Source]

• A Republican Representative from Wisconsin argues that "allowing gay marriage will force schools to teach children about alternative families and make their teen years even more confusing." As if their straight parents impending divorce wouldn't already take care of that.

• Desperate Housewives' James Denton who usually surrounds himself with 5 catty women will instead surround himself with 50 catty women.

• We always thought straight football fans only debated NFL stats and strategies. Turns out they also weigh in on a player's fit-for-porn facial hair. (Via Kenneth in the 212)

• Girlfriends has selected Provincetown as the best place for lesbians to live. Shouldn't that be the most gentrified place for lesbians to live?

• Here's some cheer for gays living in New Orleans: free wireless.

• Ratings for Anderson Cooper's newly expanded show on CNN drop in its second hour. Probably because all of the guys fantasizing about him only need the one hour to finish themselves off.