NFL linebacker and Super Bowl champ Scott Fujita, who has been speaking out since 2009 for marriage equality and has appeared in videos for Americans for Marriage Equality, among others, retired from the New Orleans Saints yesterday, making the announcement with photos from Peru he posted to Twitter.
Linebacker Scott Fujita signed a one-day
contract with the New Orleans Saints on Monday and then announced his
retirement after 11 seasons in the NFL. Fujita signed his contract in
Machu Picchu, which is located in the Andes Mountains in Peru. He's
there with former Saints teammate Steve Gleason, who is battling Lou
Gehrig's Disease.
In a statement from the team, Fujita said he couldn't think of a better place to be to announce his retirement.
"What better place to reach the end of the road than here at 10,000 feet above sea level, in the Peruvian Andes overlooking Machu Picchu with my dear friend Steve Gleason?"
Said Fujita in a NYT column earlier this year:"What better place to reach the end of the road than here at 10,000 feet above sea level, in the Peruvian Andes overlooking Machu Picchu with my dear friend Steve Gleason?"
I support marriage equality for so many
reasons: my father’s experience in an internment camp and the racial
intolerance his family experienced during and after the war, the gay
friends I have who are really not all that different from me, and also
because of a story I read a few years back about a woman who was denied
the right to visit her partner of 15 years when she was stuck in a
hospital bed...
...Believe it or not, conversations about
issues like gay marriage take place in locker rooms every day. In many
respects, the football locker room is a microcosm of society. While
there is certainly an element of bravado in our sport, football players
are not the meatheads many think we are. For some of my friends who
raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the
importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that
regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at
their church, that doesn’t give them the right to discriminate.
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