It’s hard to come to terms with the fact a person I respect so much as an athlete has such malignant and discriminatory views.
After the Focus on the Family episode, I truly wanted to believe that he was naive and genuinely unaware that that organisation promotes harmful and unscientific protocols like gay conversion therapy.
The inescapable conclusion now though is that Drew just doesn’t get it.
I’m sure we will get a statement “clarifying” his comments or another awkward taped apology. If the objective is to preserve what’s left of his public reputation, he almost doesn’t have a choice.
Undoubtedly, that will be satisfactory to a large contingent of Saints fans who will point to it and say, “see, this is what he really meant”.
Unfortunately, the mask has slipped off one too many times now.