"By and large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore. For me, in my small platform as a professional football player, I understand that my time in the spotlight is probably limited. The more times you have to lend your name to a cause you believe in, you should do that...A year ago or two years ago, I remember reading about an initiative that was proposed in the state of Arkansas. It was some kind of measure that was aimed at preventing adoptions by single parents. Now, the way I read that and the way that I translated that language was that only heterosexual, married couples could adopt children. As an adopted child that really bothered me...."
 
 ..."I asked myself, what that is really saying is that the concern with one's sexual orientation or one's sexual preference outweighs what's really important, and that's finding safe homes for children, for our children. It's also saying that we'd rather have kids bounce around from foster home to foster home throughout the course of their childhood, than end up in a permanent home, where the parent, whether that person's single or not, gay or straight. Either way, it doesn't matter. It's a home that's going to be provided for a kid who desperately needs a home. As an adopted child, that measure really bothered me. It just boggles my mind because good, loving homes for any child are the most important thing."

  Fujita is not Japanese as you can see. He was adopted by an third generation Japanese father & white mother and has lived his live raised in Japanese-American culture. He also learned about the prejudices and discrimination that his father's side of the family endured during WWII so that must also have shaped his ideas about equal rights. 

  Scott Fujita is straight, married, and has kids and in his interview he expressed that he has no concern that his support for gay rights puts his own sexuality into question. "I know who I am. My wife knows who I am. I don't care one way or the other.  I imagine that when some of this gets out guys in the locker room might give me a hard time, and they always give me a hard time. They call me the Pinko Communist Fag from Berkeley. I'm used to it. I can take it all."

  Lest you think that Scott Fujita is a lone voice in the NFL he is joined by Ravens linebacker Brendan Ayanbadejo who supports marriage equality and has written editorials to that effect. Fujita & Ayanbadejo have stated that they don't think of themselves as courageous--they are just doing the right thing.    

  So we wonder what all those right-wing Christians that saw Hurricane Katrina as punishment for New Orleans are thinking now?