{"id":77823,"date":"2015-10-27T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77823"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:14:27","slug":"mets-player-daniel-murphy-not-thrilled-with-the-gay-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77823","title":{"rendered":"Mets Player Daniel Murphy Not Thrilled With The Gay Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

From NPR<\/a>: For some of the faithful who proudly wear Mets orange and blue, however, cheering for Daniel Murphy right now is a bit more complicated.<\/p>\n

Last spring, former major league player Billy Bean, who is gay, paid a visit to the Mets in his role as baseball\u2019s \u201cInclusion Ambassador.\u201d Murphy responded to a question about the visit, saying he \u201cdisagreed\u201d with Bean\u2019s gay \u201clifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, if was really hurtful,\u201d says Jon Raj, 46, a lifelong Mets fan who\u2019s a gay father of an 8-year-old boy. Raj \u2014 pronounced \u201cRay,\u201d \u2014 wrote an open letter to Murphy in the Huffington Post. In the letter, Raj praised Murphy for being \u201ca great baseball player and a role model for [Raj’s] son.\u201d But Raj also called Murphy\u2019s statement \u201coffensive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From NPR: For some of the faithful who proudly wear Mets orange and blue, however, cheering for Daniel Murphy right now is a bit more complicated. Last spring, former major league player Billy Bean, who is gay, paid a visit … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13539,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-homophobia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t