Cenk Uygur
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Drew Brees Is REALLY Sorry For This Video
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September 7, 2019
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10:04Now PlayingQuarterback Drew Brees is apologizing for appearing in a video for an antiLGBTQ organization. Brooke Thomas, Brett Erlich, and Nando Vila, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. MORE TYT
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“After being criticized for appearing in a video linked to an anti-LGBTQ religious group, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees sought to “set the record straight.”
“I do not support any groups that discriminate or that have their own agendas that are trying to promote inequality,” Brees said in a video posted to Twitter Thursday that had amassed over a million views as of Friday morning.
The criticism stemmed from a video Brees appeared in for “Bring Your Bible to School Day,” an initiative of Focus on the Family, an anti-LGBTQ evangelical group with a history of opposing gay and transgender rights.
Focus on the Family was founded in 1977 and, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ rights group, it is “one of the most well funded anti-LGBTQ organizations in America.” The group and its leaders have long opposed same-sex marriage, supported so-called conversion therapy, called the children of same-sex parents “human guinea pigs” and asserted that “transgenderism violates God’s design.”
In a separate video shared on Twitter by a local New Orleans sports reporter, Brees said he was “not aware” of Focus on the Family's anti-gay lobbying efforts: He insisted the video he appeared in was solely focused on “Bring Your Bible to School Day” and “certainly not promoting any group associated with that type of behavior.”
Hosts: Brooke Thomas, Brett Erlich, Nando Vila
Cast: Brooke Thomas, Brett Erlich, Nando Vila
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