Gay Sports Group Criticizes Football Players Over Beliefs

Cousins (Red) was attacked by Outsports for his religious beliefs @kirkcousins | Instagram

During the previous week, the National Football League allowed players to wear custom cleats that promote awareness to a certain topic or promote a charitable organization that is doing positive things off the field.

The event has become referred to as “My Cleats, My Cause”, yet despite the positive contributions it may bring these charities or organizations, the event has become overshadowed by recent comments made by Gay Sports Media Group Outsports as they attacked two players' beliefs in an attempt to cancel them.

The first player that was attacked by the “peaceful” group that promotes LGBTQIA+ propaganda in sports this week was Veteran Cornerback Kendall Fuller of the Washington Commanders.

Fuller, 28, was put on blast by the group for electing to share that his customized cleats were promoting awareness for The Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which is an international non-profit Christian sports ministry founded in 1954 and based in Kansas City, Missouri.

“The Fellowship of Christian Athletes has been challenging coaches and athletes on the professional, college, high school, junior high and youth levels to use the powerful platform of sport to reach every coach and every athlete with the transforming power of Jesus Christ,” stated the mission statement on the group’s website. “The FCA focuses on serving local communities around the globe by engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to unite, inspire and change the world through the gospel.”

Despite their message and hopes to spread Christianity across the sports world, Outsports attacked the group and Fuller for promoting what they call “an anti-LGBTQ group”.

“(Kendall) Fuller, a cornerback with the Washington Commanders and captain of the team, seems to be the only current NFL player to publicly support a clearly anti-LGBTQ organization — Fellowship of Christian Athletes — with his My Cause My Cleats in 2024,” read the statement on Outsports.com. “Zero NFL players are supporting organizations that specifically support LGBTQ charities, a lengthy Outsports review of this year’s program has found. It’s only the second year since 2019 that is the case.”

It is pretty clear that Outsports is upset about no players electing to go woke and support the LQBTQIA+ this year and with the Washington Commanders – an organization with more negative PR than Bud Light – hosting the NFL’s First “Pride Weekend” this past Sunday as a way to cover up all the bad press they have gotten in recent years, the media group felt it was necessary to take shots at a man who clearly is sharing his religious beliefs and is trying to promote a non-profit that helps out many people across the world.

“As previously reported by Outsports, Fellowship of Christian Athletes bars LGBTQ people — or anyone supporting same-sex marriage or other LGBTQ rights — from holding leadership roles within the organization,” read the statement on the Outsports website. “It’s impossible to believe that Fuller — a Black man — would support any organization that bars Black people from leadership roles, as so many churches did for so many years, no matter how “Christian” he, or the organization, is.”

What makes this statement tone deaf by a group of people who wants the majority of the world to pander to their needs and beliefs is that they pull out the race card and try to degrade and tear down Fuller by not just his religious beliefs – which violates his rights as a human being – but by the color of his skin.

For a group of people who want everyone to be tolerant and nice, they seem to be the ones who are trying to degrade someone by the color of their skin and their religious beliefs, both of which should have no place in today's society. It is not very forward thinking to say that someone’s race makes the situation worse since they don’t think your belief is right.

The second player that Outsports attacked on their NFL witch-hunt this past week was Minnesota Vikings Quarterback and four time Pro-Bowler Kirk Cousins.

Cousins, 35, has not been active in weeks as he suffered a torn achilles on October 29th against the Green Bay Packers, but that clearly didn’t stop the gay sports group from attacking the quarterback’s beliefs.

Last week, Cousins – a practicing Evangelical Christian – appeared with Focus On The Family, an Evangelical group that has become one of the most prominent of its kind.

According to the group's official website, their values are “To be led by the Holy Spirit in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as possible by nurturing and affirming the God-ordained institution of the family and proclaiming biblical truths worldwide.”

Despite their efforts to spread the word of the Lord, Outsports called them a hate group on their website last week and continuously condemned Kirk Cousins for his support of the group while posting “hateful comments” that they received or have seen about their group that apparently came from the Evangelical Christian group.

Cleats worn by Washington Commanders Cornerback Kendall Fuller this Past Week to Support a Christian Non-Profit Washington Commanders

Although some of these people may have said some disgusting things to or about Outsports, they themselves should understand the phrase “If you can’t take it, don’t dish it out,” as their website has been the ones who have posted tons of anti-Christian propaganda on their website and criticized athletes for believing in the religion.

Cousins is considered one of the nicest and upstanding characters in the NFL, often referred to as a “good guy.” But Outsports still finds a reason to try and drag him through the dirt.

“A couple people in and around the NFL have told me he’s considered a ‘good guy,’” said Cyd Ziegler, self-proclaimed “Journalist” of Outsports who wrote the articles about both Kendall Fuller and Cousins. “Still, he’s a good guy who appeared publicly in support of a rabidly anti-LGBTQ organization.”

In the world we live in today, we should learn to keep stuff like Outsports and their efforts to make sports pander to the beliefs of the 1% of fans out of the spotlight as all it does is bring negative attention to the sport while also ruining something great, like NFL Stars donating to charitable organizations while trying to get them publicity that may lead to even more donations that could help out people who need the support more than anyone.

Until they cease their witch hunt to try and cancel people who are believers in Christianity, Outsports can’t be taken seriously by anyone and they should be considered a “Hate Group” that they so desperately try to paint every group that supports Christianity.