Looking For Another Scalp: Human Rights Campaign Attacks NY Giants for Hiring David Tyree

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Human Rights Campaign is attacking the New York Giants for hiring former wide receiver David Tyree because of his past supposedly anti-gay comments.

Tyree, a former Giants player who retired from football in 2010, was hired to be the team’s director of player development but as soon as the announcement was made, pro-gay activists decried the hiring because of his comments in support of traditional marriage.

As the gay marriage debate heated up in 2011, Tyree said in an interview that he would have traded his famous helmet catch in Super Bowl XLII to keep marriage between a man and a woman.

In the 2011 interview with the New York Daily News, Tyree said of his famous catch, “The catch was a gift, it’s not like I’d try to do it. I couldn’t do it again so that was a miracle.” He then said, “There’s nothing worth more than [maintaining heterosexual marriage] right here for me.”

When asked if he would trade the catch to assure traditional marriage, Tyree said, “Honestly, I probably would.”

On top of that interview, Tyree, a vocal born again Christian, posted several Tweets one of which said, “there is no scientific evidence to support the claim of being born gay.”

A statement from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) says that Tyree’s latter claim “has been debunked and condemned by every major medical and mental health organization in the country, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, and many others.”

“When did Tyree decide to be straight?” HRC president Chad Griffin charged. “The idea that someone can change their sexual orientation or gender identity is ludicrous, and the New York Giants are risking their credibility by hiring someone who publicly advocates this junk science. His opposition to basic legal equality aside, David Tyree’s proselytizing of such dangerous practices goes against the positive work the Giants organization has done in recent years.”

The Giants insist that Tyree’s comments are personal and have nothing at all to do with the team.

For his part, Tyree is demurring from making any in depth comments on the HRC’s attacks. “I don’t have any comment about it. I’m just excited to be with the Giants,” Tyree told ESPN.

What we have here is the “tolerant” left again trying to destroy the career of a Christian.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.

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