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Robert Griffin III Says Now Is The Time For Gay NFL Players To Come Out

Aug 14, 2013, 21:54 IST

Ronald Martinez/Getty ImagesRobert Griffin III told GQ that there's currently a "window" for gay NFL players to come out.

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His full quote:

"Yeah, man. I think there are [gay players] right now, and if they're looking for a window to just come out, I mean, now is the window. My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do. If some Christians want to look at being gay as a sin, then thinking about other women, committing adultery—or any of those other sins that are in the Bible—those are sins, too. And God looks at all of us the same way."

The "window" concept is a little strange.

It implies that there is a finite period of time where it'd be okay for gay players to come out — that the anti-gay environment of the past is gone, but it will come back again in the future.

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But we're almost certainly over-analyzing him there.

The point is that one of the league's rising stars (who also happens to be relatively openly about his religious beliefs), recognizes that he has gay co-workers and wouldn't care if they came out, which is good.

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