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Chris Kluwe is an NFL punter who played eight seasons with the Minnesota Vikings. He made national headlines last year for a colorful, profanity-laden letter he wrote to Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns taking him to task for his rivalry to gay marriage. Kluwe is also a hardcore geek who enjoys science fiction novels, video games, and pen-and-paper role-playing games. His new book, Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies, is a collection of highly opinionated essays on subjects ranging from football to humanity’s future in space.
This interview first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. Visit to listen to the entire interview and the relax of the show, in which the hosts talk about various geeky topics.
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First of all, for our listeners, I wanted to dash through what some of your geeky interests are. You belonged to a top-ranked World of Warcraft guild, and your Twitter handle is @chriswarcraft. You also write video game reviews, and you possess your own tabletop gaming sto
What's Football Got To Do With Homosexual Marriage?
A few days ago, former NFL punter Chris Kluwe published an article describing the circumstances of his emit from the Minnesota Vikings. One of the better punters in the league, he aggressively voiced his support for gay marriage throughout his career. While he notes other potential considerations in his release—his deteriorating skills and huge contract—he believes that the team’s conclusion to release him was because to his outspokenness. He describes the leader coach and General Manager at the time as “cowards” and his position coach as a “bigot.”
If Kluwe’s account of his coach’s insensitive comments is true, he clearly has a case. His comments—which are stated in the article—are insulting and intolerant. I hold issues, however, with some of Kluwe’s broader agenda.
Kluwe—like many pro-gay marriage advocates—seems to think that it is unworkable to be against gay marriage. In their minds, anyone who does not vocally support &#;marriage equality&#; is bigoted and intolerant. The Vikings organization offered Kluwe a national platfo
But I don’t think the NFL’s homophobia problem is the most important takeaway from Kluwe’s share. The NFL—and SportsWorld—is seen precisely, and rightly, as retrograde in a society increasingly tolerant of LGBTQ people. Same-sex marriage is legal in more and more states; indeed, as Kluwe notes, the proximate cause of his initial activism is now moot, Minnesota’s governor having signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage last year. Society’s homophobia problem will probably never go away, but it is headed in the right direction. At some indicate, professional sports will find either the moral backbone or the financial incentive to follow suit—you can take that, as it were, to the bank.
What struck me most of all about Kluwe’s piece—and, granted, this is partly because I was totally unsurprised to read about despicable homophobia in the NFL—was how accepting everyone was with the principle that his employer was permitted to massively restrict his right to speech. Kluwe is one of the better remunerated workers in the country and is unionized to boot, and yet, he says, his boss (Frazier)
'Do the civil-rights struggles of the past years imply absolutely nothing to you?': NFL star sends vitriolic letter backing same-sex marriage to anti-gay Maryland politician
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
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Firebrand: Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe posted a scathing letter on Deadspin excoriating a member of the Maryland assembly for trying to silence a Ravens player on the issue of homosexual marriage
Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe sent a biting, profanity-laced open letter on Friday addressed to a Maryland state politician who had demanded that a fellow NFL player block speaking out in back of same-sex marriage.
Kluwe, 30, was responding to a letter sent last week to Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti by Maryland Assembly Delegate Emmett C Burns Jr, a Democrat, asking him to 'inhibit such expressions' in support of gay marriage made by Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo.
The veteran football player has long been a vocal supporter of passing an initiative legalizing same-sex marriage in the state of Maryland.
Kluwe, who is heterosexual a