This just in: NFL star Drew Brees has a message for anyone who wants to accuse him of being antigay for his nearly decade-long involvement with the antigay hate group Focus on the Family: Shame! Shame on you for criticizing him!
Wait… what?
Quick backstory: It all started last weekend when Brees appeared in a 23-second video for the antigay hate group Focus on the Family to promote “Bring Your Bible to School Day,” where he encouraged kids to bring their Bibles (just Bibles, though. No Torahs. And definitely no Qurans!) to school and convert their classmates.
Shortly after that, it was revealed Brees had been working with the organization since 2010, appearing on its radio program and being profiled on its official blog.
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Focus on the Family opposes same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. It also supports gay conversion therapy and religious freedom laws, believes trans people are deranged, says anti-bullying groups promote homosexuality, and has lobbied for legislation allowing antigay workplace discrimination.
Yesterday, Brees finally spoke out about the controversy… by using a page straight from the Donald Trump playbook and blaming the media.
In a cellphone video posted to his social media pages, Brees begins: “There’s been a lot of negativity spread about me in the LGBTQ community recently based upon a article that someone wrote with a very negative headline that I think led people to believe that somehow I was aligned with an organization that was anti-LGBTQ and so on and so forth.”
Somehow, Brees doesn’t think working with Focus on the Family for nearly a decade means he’s “aligned” with them.
He continues: “I do not support any groups that discriminate or have their own agendas that are trying to promote inequality. Hopefully that set the record straight and we can all move on, because that’s not what I stand for.”
Except that he does support a group that discriminates and promotes inequality. Or at least he has for the past nine years.
It remains to be seen whether he will continue working with Focus on the Family. So far, however, it doesn’t appear as though he has requested the organization stop circulating the “Bring Your Bible to School” video, nor has he asked them to remove his profile from their website or stop selling his 2010 appearance on their radio program. The broadcast is still up for sale on Amazon for $1.99.
Hopefully this sets the record straight with who I am and what I stand for. Love, Respect, and Accept ALL. I encourage you not to believe the negativity you read that says differently. It’s simply not true. Have a great day. pic.twitter.com/4RdTahE7EZ
— Drew Brees (@drewbrees) September 5, 2019
Later, at a press conference Thursday evening, Brees once again refused to take any personal responsibility or even consider what his critics were saying and instead blamed the media for reporting about his involvement with an antigay hate group.
“That’s not a very fair headline,” Brees told media. “That headline was not representative of what that video was about at all. Am I right in saying that? I think that’s fair.”
“Why would you post a headline like that? Why? Why would you post a headline like that when that’s not what the video had anything to do about.”
Brees went on to say he was “not aware” that Focus on the Family lobbied for antigay causes, but stopped short of saying that, had he known, he never would have worked with them.
“What’s a shame is that people will make headlines just to get hits,” Brees rambled on. “Just to get views. And all of the sudden these rumors are spread that are completely untrue. So shame on them.”
Except, once again, they aren’t untrue. As we previously stated, Brees has been involved with Focus on the Family in various capacities for almost a decade. This is a well-documented fact.
It seems doubtful that Brees will face any real repercussions for what he’s done. He’s one of the highest paid players in the NFL and his fans are fiercely loyal and, in many cases, fiercely Christian. Some are even supporters of Focus on the Family. Brees could use this as a teachable moment for them. Instead, he’s blaming those who simply want to see him do better.
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LARRY
Like always a shmuck who speaks his truth then stammers when caught…like always just another piece of shit.
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“Brees went on to say he was ‘not aware’ that Focus on the Family lobbied for antigay causes”
Hopefully, someone will send Brees a factsheet, with Focus on Family’s own writings, to educate him. Then we’ll know if he was sincere.
Brian
There is no way that he didn’t know.
Chrisk
He should just say I want nothing to do with this organization and I’m discontinuing my relationship with them. He wants his cake and ice-cream too. I’ll just say some flowery bible versus of love and blame the accusers.
The one and only thing I like about focus on the family is they don’t mince words. They’re very hostile to the lgbt community and not afraid to admit it.
Chrisk
“I do not support any group that discriminates.” Umm..hello. There’s this think called Google. Hell just type in Focus on the Family and discrimination or anti gay and up pops pages and pages of their hate. It’s not like they’ve been hiding it but you already know that.
Honestly I don’t really care. He’s just a dumb jock that wants everyone to adore him and keep his sponsor money cow going. I can’t stand hypocritical liars though.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
What a vile noxious puke!
He has been associated with one of the most notorious smcubag hate homophobic group in this country. That vile organization has been at the forefront of attacks on Gays for decades. And this miserable puke claims he has no idea about their reprehensible agenda?
He like all the other smcubag “good Christians” are in for such a shock when they burn their vile mortal coils and discover for the noxious hate filled way they led their miserable lives they are destined to spend eternity writhing in agony burning in the darkest corners of Hell…
Chrisk
Also, I find it interesting that he’s the highest receiver of sponsorship money of all the NFL players @ 16 million per year. No doubt one of his agents made a call and told him to get out there ASAP and put this to rest. They didn’t want another Izzy situation.
dre23222
Drew is just as dumb as the next if he wants people to believe he didn’t know. No one cares really. He’s a nobody. Not that good of a quarterback for real.
Coda
He took that from Trump’s playbook. Money on he’s a Dotard supporter.
KerryB
I always thought he was a douche-bag. Now he’s confirmed it!
mmoore482
This man is revered by Ellen DeGeneres. How does he excuse his adoration for her and her wife when he worships Focus on the Family which despises her? His cheap response shows he’s either limited intellectually or he is rationalizing!
James
Ellen Degeneres is clueless. Perhaps she is only learning of this herself and he has been lying to her all along. Can’t believe she would accept this. She has some explaining to do.
James
Could not even finish the article. Brees is full of sh*t.
novadude
I was going to say, “Who?” but then I read “NFL star”. (slight pause) “Who?”
Any maybe it would be better if the kids left all the political fiction at home and actually took, oh I don’t know, a TEXTBOOK or two to SCHOOL DAY!
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frankcar1965
Maybe he will get cancer and die a painful death, nasty hating POS.
Shannon1981
Nobody is buying this bullshit. Drew Brees worked with these bigots for nearly two damn decades. Of course he knows who they are. Further, he agrees with them. And that whole “bring your Bibles” day thing shows he has zero respect for diversity of thought. He’s a typical religious bigot who just so happens to be in a football jersey.
Aires the Ram
As I mentioned in another thread about this, I don’t like Drew Brees either. So here goes——-
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America
Amendment I
Freedom of religion, speech, and the press; rights of assembly and petition
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceable to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
———Thereby, if Drew Brees wants to be part of a Christian organization that does not like homosexuals, he has the right to do so. We may not like the fact that he has done so, but he is exercising his Constitutional right to do so. JUST REMEMBER—This Constitutional right belongs to YOU ALSO. Yes, YOU ALSO. If you choose to join an organization, donate to an organization, that say, disparages heterosexuals for whatever reason, you may do so. It is your Constitutional right.
There have always been, and there will always be, organizations like Focus on the Family (et. al.), that don’t like homosexuals and will try to work against homosexuals. They’re not going away. All the older gay folks who marched in the streets in past decades deserve a whole lot of credit for the progress that has been made, to legitimize our lives, our relationships. If you think you have it bad now, or if you incorrectly think your rights are being ‘taken away’ by a President that you don’t like, think again. I for one, and there are many more on this site, can tell you what it’s like graduating from High School in the 1970’s, in a small midwestern town/rural area, where gays were considered freaks of nature, were routinely beat up by their straight peers, were routinely kicked out of their family homes once Mom & Dad “found out”, and left on their own with nothing at 18 years old. What happened to many, if not most of them, is well documented, and a large percentage of them are no longer with us. You gotta live with all types of people, you gotta work with all types of people, they ain’t all gonna like ya honey. Not by a long shot, that’s how life is. Comes a time when you gotta put your big boy pants on.
cliche guevara
How does the first amendment play into this story?
Rock-N-RollHS
Most of the comments here are pissing in the wind. What do you not get yet about Christians such as Brees? According to their beliefs, which are pretty set, they do not believe that they are discriminating and they do believe that we are all sinners and that homosexuality is a sin, and love the sinner, yada yada. You can rant and rail all you want that aint gonna change sheet. Thing to watch is that our laws protect us against discrimination. Attacking him ain’t gonna do it. I have no problem with his beliefs as long as they are not made into laws such as those b.s. religious freedom protections. That is what the LGBT community needs to focus on. And that is what we need to educate others about. And, I would advocate doing it with a smile and that good old fashioned faux friendliness (often well meant) practiced by so many of these folk.
Aires the Ram
Exactly!
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