@TeamAthleteLife tweeted the following today:
Tim Tebow: "I'm a Christian."
Media: "Keep it to yourself."
Jason Collins: "I'm gay."
Media: "You're an inspiration!"
#idontunderstand
Judging by the number of retweets it got I'd say a lot of other people "don't understand" either. So I thought I'd take a crack at explaining it.
When someone like Tebow says, "I'm a Christian," the implied theology is that, "I'm saved and going to heaven, and you are not. In fact you are going to hell (unless of course you convert to my religion, the one true religion)."
However when someone like Collins says, "I am gay," there is no implied theology, although I think it would be safe to draw an inference that he also may mean: "so I hope you won't condemn me or discriminate against me for it."
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