Salon.com > Matt Birk http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 14:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Two NFL players go head to head on gay marriage http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/two_nfl_players_go_head_to_head_on_gay_marriage/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/two_nfl_players_go_head_to_head_on_gay_marriage/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:57:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13027897 Just in case the NFL's righteously vocal Brendon Ayanbadejo and Chris Kluwe were making you think that the macho world of professional sports is getting a little too tolerant of gay and lesbian rights, don't worry, Ravens center (and former Minnesota Viking) Matt Birk has a few words to even things out.

In a YouTube video for the Minnesota Catholic Conference and an Op-Ed for the Star Tribune this week, Birk takes a strong stance for his home state's Marriage Protection Amendment, and to his credit, attempts to frame the argument in respectful, reasonable terms. An acknowledgment that gays are people may not seem like a big deal, but coming from a guy who's speaking on behalf of a religion whose leader recently called homosexuality "a concept of human nature that has proven defective," it's something.

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