You may have seen this tweet, or a variation, in the last few days:
Tim Tebow: I’m Christian.
Media: Keep it to yourself!
Jason Collins: I’m gay.
Media: This man’s a hero!
Oh, the self-pity, the false equivalency!
Both men became free agents in their respective sports recently, both making news, but that's about where the similarity in their situations begin and end.
Yet Tebow's fans seem all bent out of shape that their man—long known as a Christian—didn't get the kinds of love Collins provoked by revealing his homosexuality.
Can we just review?
Tebow is part of an American majority: A straight Christian male.
Collins is part of several American and global minorities: An African-American gay male.





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