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Sportswriter Attacks NYC Archbishop and NFL Player for Their Views on Gay Marriage

Sportswriter Attacks NYC Archbishop and NFL Player for Their Views on Gay MarriageTim Graham at NewsBusters has proposed an interesting question in response to veteran New York Daily News sportswriter Mike Lupica’s attack on Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan and David Tyree, the former NFL wide receiver best remembered for his incredible catch as a New York Giant in Super Bowl XLII.

“How far would a New York sportswriter get in his career if he mocked a black liberal football player for sounding like he was playing without a helmet (brain-damaged)?”

Great question.

Mike Lupica, who also airs a radio show for ESPN, has gone to town attacking Tyree for his opinions on same-sex marriage. In a rambling column that takes no discomfort in directing a few jabs at the Catholic Church, joking that Dolan opposes same-sex marriage in New York because it will interfere with a promotion to Cardinal, Lupica asserts that a football player opposed to gay marriage must have played his career without a helmet. From Lupica’s column:

“Tyree makes a video for the National Organization for Marriage that says gay marriage would lead to “anarchy.” Sure it would. Having these gays be officially married in the state of New York would bring on fabulous rioting in the streets, along with making them a threat to Catholics. Of course. Like they are Al Qaeda operatives on Christopher St”

If a New York sportswriter applying satire to Al Qaeda doesn’t make you cringe, I don’t know what would.

“You don’t demonize ex-football players and current top Catholics anywhere for believing what they believe, even as they do a pretty good job trying to demonize gay people, men and women, who are no threat to the moral fabric of this country or anything else. Or anybody. Dolan and Tyree are still wrong, the rhetoric they have brought to the debate laced with both ignorance and intolerance.”

Is Lupica’s rhetoric much better? Remember that Rush Limbaugh was quickly pressured out of a short stint on ESPN in 2003 after suggesting a possible media bias towards Donavon McNabb due to his race.

Do you think Lupica’s comments are cheap shots that ESPN should reprimand him for? Do you think he did not overstep his bounds? Or are you ambivalent to the situation and just say to the media “keep your politics out of my sports.”

(H/T: Tim Graham)

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  • Backatya
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 6:51pm

    This dude’s a massive heterophobe! What is so normal about two qweers screwing each other in the azz. The natural function of the azz if for shittin‘ not for gittin’ ….. only two things come out of New York Daily News: steers and qweers. I don’t see no horns so you must heterophobic!

    Besides it makes you sound like a fairy and a f*aggot!

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    Lover of America
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:52pm

    You’re an idiot, and you’re an embarassment to yourself.

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    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 6:38pm

    But only a qweer and a heterophobe would make such an inane, utterly devoid attempt at a comment. What, too many azz jobs going to your lack of cognitive ability?

    If your dick is as small as your brain you’re in alot of trouble! That’s homophobically speaking, of course. But you get the *** of it ….. I mean jist …… (no I didn’t)

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    • Buddyc
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:19am

      Lupica is a wana be woman. He looks like one, acts like one and talks like one. Does the guy even have a college education? He is a sportscaster. Why doesn’t he stick with a “feminine look at sports”?

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  • bruce_baker
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 6:37pm

    The Fabian Socialist’s agenda to bring down America by destroying our moral standards:
    1) remove the stigma from homosexuality, er, that is, “being gay”: check
    2) break up the family (homosexual “marriage”): check
    3) make any disparaging remark against homosexuality a hate crime: pending
    Not a bad “progress report” for THEM.
    And the beat goes on…

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  • chitstirrer
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 6:01pm

    Lupica is a washed up hack who’s best days are far behind.He has as much credibility as my dog.

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    • Rsantos
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:35am

      CHITSTIRRER that’s ridiculous! Lupica doesn’t have that much credibility! Give your dog a break!

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  • righthanddrive
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 5:39pm

    WOW. Chalk one for the left. They have so seamlessly moved from labeling people who criticized Obama as racists so as to completely stifle any debate and questions. Now it is being applied to the gay marriage vote in NY. Well, I have already been labeled a racists so heck call me a homophobe for saying insisting that marriage is between a man and a woman.

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  • chickster
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 5:35pm

    If enough gays and lesbos,plus free wheeling abortionists have their way,,, in 3 generations we have have anymore Democrats. keep on plugging!!

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  • GittleShel
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 5:26pm

    I stopped reading and listening to Lupica years ago, He is so clueless and arrogant. There are only a few truly good sports writers anymore. ESPN has tanked! Stick to sports and stay away from politics!

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  • Molaki
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 4:55pm

    Hey Mike…..just because someone doesn‘t agree with your position on gay marriage doesn’t make their position any less valid. You are just another one of those “cafeteria catholics” who choses what he will and will not believe from the teachings of the Bible. You accept gay marriage but I bet you don’t support abortion which is another regligious hot button. I am an agnostic but, I do believe the road on which we are now travelling will ultimately lead to the demise of the United States as I knew growing up in the 50s and 60s.

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  • MUDFLAPS
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 4:34pm

    gee big fella

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  • onlygodrules
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 4:26pm

    oh yeah,,,call it something other than “marriage”…A marriage is between a man and a woman..Call it a “union” or something

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    • angelcat
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:09pm

      Exactly! Gays can have the ceremony. They can say and think they are married. The government can say they are married. They are NOT married. Marriage was instituted as a contract between a man and a woman who could then conceive and raise a child or children together. Just because I call a banana an orange, say it is an orange, and think it is an orange, that doesn’t make it an orange.

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  • onlygodrules
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 4:23pm

    call me a homophobe…i dont care,,its wrong morally and spriritually..It goes against the word of God blatantly.,,,just sick

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    • Gump
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 6:08pm

      By their definition of homophobe, God also would be a homophobe. So I’m proud to be a homophobe. I’m always amazed at how many people are supposely smarter than God.

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  • curtmavi38
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 4:13pm

    Homosexuality is a sin, Repent and ask God for forgiveness before it is too late. meh

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  • mayihelpyou
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 4:07pm

    His response was so……….gay.

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  • drewp
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:39pm

    Once again the liberal mind at its finest. As long as you think like them you are tolerant. I wouldn’t wrap dead fish in that rag.

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  • Backatya
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:36pm

    This dude’s a massive heterophobe! What is so normal about two qweers screwing each other in the azz. The natural function of the azz if for shittin‘ not for gittin’ ….. only two things come out of New York Daily News: steers and qweers. I don’t see no horns so you must heterophobic!

    Besides it makes you sound like a fairy and a f*aggot!

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    • Lover of America
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:52pm

      You’re an idiot, and you’re an embarassment to yourself.

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    • Backatya
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 6:38pm

      But only a qweer and a heterophobe would make such an inane, utterly devoid attempt at a comment. What, too many azz jobs going to your lack of cognitive ability?

      If your dick is as small as your brain you’re in alot of trouble! That’s homophobically speaking, of course. But you get the *** of it ….. I mean jist …… (no I didn’t)

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    • Knight Templar
      Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:57pm

      I agree with Lover of America. Your vocabulary indicates that you are a twit.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:13pm

    What makes a sports writer think his opinions are any more valid than a players? How does the saying go? If you can’t do it, you teach it. What if you can’t teach it? I guess you can only report it. There’s really nothing lower intellectually than a sports writer. Evidence of that was Olbermann, a Farm College graduate. This Mike Lupica clown seems to fit the mold, and like others in here noted, perhaps he should remove himself from the subject due to a conflict of interest.

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  • mhojai
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 2:59pm

    So people are allowed to promote their perversion of nature, as acceptable public policy, while anyone who speaks out against a love of sodomy is “a threat to the moral fabric?”
    The Red Queen, in Alice Through the Looking Glass, made more sense!

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  • thinkhard64
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 2:48pm

    So he is a GAY writer???

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  • Rowwdy
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 2:46pm

    Lupica is persona non grata. Just another ignorant socialist with too much time on his hands.

    It was a cheap shot and had nothing to do with sports. If he were a conservative, you better believe ESPN would have already suspended him. Especially if one spoke against gays.

    Gays depend on idiots like Lupica to rap on people via their venue. The queer dears would have the whole country believing the majority is for them when in fact the majority is against gay marriage. It has been their propaganda for 3 decades now. Truly, people are so sick of hearing from these little freaks, they are really becoming more vocal against gays on ANY level….marriage or otherwise.

    Give it time, they will self destruct. Or simply die off from all their diseases.

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  • Whistle Pig
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 1:51pm

    In his struggle to be controversial, one must worry if he’s become contemptable. For sure this would seem to be a case of a salesman misreading or ignoring his alleged audience. One more reason no news entity desirous of a national market should have its HQ in Manhattan … or anywhere near the Hudson. Too oddly provincial, I’m afraid.

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  • mike1956will
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 1:21pm

    Mr Lupica should get out of the hating business and stay with reporting on the games….is he a Keith Olbermann wannabe???

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  • sandyn
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:52pm

    I DO want to know which sex you are but I do NOT want to know which sex you sleep with. Regardless of how the progs try to tell it there are two sides to every issue. If we have to be constantly confronted with gay “issues” then we also have a right to express the opinions of folks who have issues with gays. But since we have nothing more important to do, rant on. The progs keep on saying that opinions are changing and more and more are coming around to gay marriage. Only if they pick their target interviews correctly. What they are doing is getting people upset who like to mind their own business and when they do begin to focus on an issue they resolve it. And the progs are not going to like it, all the way back to making abortion illegal again. If it truly were about abortion or gay marriage/civil unions there is more then enough on the table to satisfy the true believers. But progs always want it all. They want to be able to rub it in our faces and watch them do a victory dance. I am hoping for a long fall for them.

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  • nostromo
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:45pm

    Mainstream Christian churches do not demonize people who commit sexual sins. Mr. Lupica is wrong or misinformed on this point. Believe it or not, mainstream Christian churches would tell you that there is a level of sexual activity that is sinful between unmarried people whatever orientation those people exhibit. Trying to live a Christian life in conformity with these teachings is very difficult in our sexually charged society, but it is not impossible. And for those who fall from time to time there is forgiveness. What is going on now, of course, is the attempt to declare that there is no level of sexual activity between adults that is sinful, married or not. While I concur no level of this activity between consenting adults should be illegal, I would argue that secular authorities should butt out of what specific churches consider sinful.

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    • AegisFate
      Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:53pm

      But that would require them to acknowledge that what they are doing is wrong, and they never will.

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  • GoldenRudy
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:15pm

    The accompanying photo of Mr Lupica makes me think he is taking the opposition to homosexual marriage a little too personal. Nice sweater.

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  • Faulkner and Brown
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 11:51am

    I don’t know Lupica, so I can’t really know what his motive is for saying what he is saying. But he seems to be a big old liberal goober elitist upper West side hater. I am amazed how guys like him can attack Catholics for their 2000 year old beliefs without any sense of respect for the person holding the belief. You never hear them attacking the questionable and confusing ideas and beliefs of Islam…who con’t just disagree with homosexuality, they HATE homosexuals and often kill them dead. Folks like Mr. Lupica are dare I say, shallow.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:39pm

      Hey, a queer is queer and you can’t put feathers in their hats and change them. When Sharia law goes into effect they will start in Queer City USA (new york). I can see this guy still defending Queers as they are being stoned to death.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 12:52am

      @Faulkner – the guy is a raging liberal, that’s his motive. He writes for the NY Daily News and his columns are ALWAYS off the deep end of the left side. Reading his articles boils my blood– he’s one of the writers I love to loathe, so much so that I can’t read him anymore.

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  • eddvoss
    Posted on June 27, 2011 at 11:43am

    Any one who speaks up is going to be labeled a homophobe if they don’t bow down to the Gay community. Don’t bother trying to explain your reasoning it will just be mocked and ridiculed and nothing of substance will be achieved. This is their tactic, to make you afraid to speak up against them.

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    • stifroc
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 5:52pm

      whoops there goes freedom of religion again. “NO! You are NOT allowed to believe that!”

      HEY! What if it was a muslim Imam that said “I don’t agree with same sex marriage.” (which they don’t, gays are stoned) Would there be a problem with that?

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    • Live_Free_orDie
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:16pm

      Homosexuals are freaks of nature who try to pass themselves off as “Normal”. BS…they are not normal by a long shot!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:25pm

      Americanism-the real religion of america.

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    • imreddog
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:34pm

      There is nothing “gay” about the disease carrying per-verts.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 11:44pm

      They can’t compete in a country with freedom of speech and freedom of religion, so that’s why they have to pass all of these laws to thought police anyone who thinks differently from them.

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    • trinketer
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:57am

      Lets quit using their liberal term, Homophobes, and address it as HomoDisgust!
      A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phóbos, meaning “fear” or “morbid fear”)

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    • Odog
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:01am

      After 7 thousand years of recorded history, this is the first generation that believes homosexuality is a normal behavior, and we call ourselves “enlightened”. The good Lord thinks differently. From a personal standpoint I like to think of it as “homonausea” as I am tired of listening to such drivel.

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    • AegisFate
      Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:49pm

      I wonder why these “people” never force a mosque to perfprm their abominaitons. The Christian church is alwasy a fair target for these “people”.

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