Being against gay marriage does not make one a homophobe.
While I tend to disagree with you there, I definitely don't want to get into the politics of the argument.
But Dungy's anti-gay affiliations take on an odd meaning if one considers his son's Myspace page, the one James happened to edit just a day before his own death. If I've seen the page (though its long since taken down), then clearly his own father has. Obviously, James Dungy was a troubled youth, as one of the first things he saw fit to advertise about himself was the fact that he hated "f*gs". Now, as a father, seeing this, and seeing your son was troubled and ultimately took his own life, wouldn't you want to stay the hell away from any kind of association with this bigotry, no matter your intentions? Yet he's speaking at a group with any anti-gay rights associations? If your son was a skinhead and he decided to take his own life, would you show up at White Power meetings? Sorry, but that's pretty F'd up, and I think Tony Dungy is one messed up dude, to be quite honest.
What's the point? The point is Tony Dungy has some sketchiness, a sketchiness that if the roles were reversed and said sketchiness were held by Bill Belichick, the media would destroy him to the point he'd be out of the league. You can be damn sure that if BB took these subtle anti-gay stances, the media would make a huge deal out of it. Dungy, you don't hear word one.
Heck,
the media has made a bigger deal out of Belichick's marriage, his pushing a reporter, the fact that his son sold weed and a friggin handshake. The media is always ready to tarnish the Pats and specifically Belichick at EVERY turn, and make mountains out of the smallest molehills, but the Colts and Dungy, get a free pass.
So for Dungy to be throwing stones here seems out of line to me. If I were the guy, I'd shut my mouth a little bit more, especially about his political and religious views and hope that the media doesn't decide to ponder them a little further.
