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On Monday, the New York Jets\u00a0released<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>quarterback Tim Tebow from their roster after only a year on a team. In ironic timing, news almost immediately followed that\u00a0Jason Collins<\/a><\/span>, a veteran center in the NBA, had become the \ufb01rst active male athlete in a major American team sport to come out as gay.<\/span><\/div>\n
Collins and Tebow are a study in contrasts, perhaps especially when it comes to their faith. Tebow is known for game-saving theatrics and an equally performative profession of faith politicized by the culture wars. He\u2019s positioned himself as an all-American poster child for the pro-life movement and homophobic groups like Focus on the Family. Collins, on the other hand, is a career role player who keeps his head down on the court and his devout Christian faith, rooted in family and community identity, private.<\/span><\/div>\n
Where Tebow\u2019s religiosity has been endlessly analyzed by the media and championed by the white religious right, the centrality of Collins\u2019 Christianity and faith community in his decision to come out has been ignored. Collins\u2019 faith hasn\u2019t gotten the attention that his race has\u2014apart from ESPN\u2019s attention-grabbing decision to put\u00a0Chris Broussard<\/a><\/span>, a sports journalist with known, religiously-motivated homophobic views, on air to directly question him about his personal opinion of Collins\u2019 Christian witness\u2014in the process playing into popular narratives about black homophobia.<\/span><\/div>\n
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