News One is reporting former New York Giants Superbowl XXLII hero David Tyree is speaking out against gay marriage. David Tyree, who became a hero after making a game-changing catch in Super Bowl XLII, made a video for the National Organization for Marriage, warning of “anarchy” if gay marriage is legalized. “If they pass this gay marriage bill, what I know will happen is this will be the beginning of our country sliding toward … it’s a strong word, but, anarchy,” Tyree said. “That will be the moment itself where our country loses its grip with what’s right. Marriage is one of those things that is the backbone of society. So if you redefine it, it changes the way we educate our children, it changes the perception of what is good, what is right, what is just.”
Needless to say, Tyree's comments have gone viral and are being re-posted all over the web. It is America, so Tyree has a right to his opinion. Quiet as it is kept, Tyree's feelings are not his alone, but reflect the feelings of many people in the country and in New York, which is currently battling to make gay marriage legal. It's too bad that Tyree doesn't understand that the same argument he's using is the argument used when slaves wanted to legally marry -- it would lead to anarchy. It's too bad that he is too shortsighted to see that the same argument that he's using was used to keep interracial marriage illegal for so long. We're still trying to figure out why straight people think that marriage has something to do with them. Like all marriages including Tyree's, it is really no one else's business about what goes on in it. We're still wondering how people who live in a country where the divorce rate is 50 percent get the nerve to define marriage in such limited terms for other people. Clearly there's very little respect for the institution. If Trump, Tiki Barber, Guiliani and Weiner get to marry, then why not gays?
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