Ryan Braun supports NBA player Collins coming out

[TheMightyFavog]

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MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers would welcome a gay player in the clubhouse, Ryan Braun said Monday on the day that NBA center Jason Collins became the first active professional athlete to come out.

"Absolutely, I would hope so," Braun said. "I know I would be. I think everybody else would be, as well."

Braun said it was great that Collins decided to be open about his sexual orientation.

"For all of us as athletes, we should all be tolerant," he said. "Not only tolerant but accepting. I think it's a great thing. I think everybody should be encouraged to be comfortable and confident in who they are, and I think hopefully it's the first step in the right direction for anybody that's going through some of the same things that he went through.

Ryan Braun. A real class act and a true Mensch!

[David__77]

1. it's a lot different than even ten years ago...

I live in California, but honestly I go long stretches (days at a time anyway) without remembering the fact that part of society hates all homosexuals, and by extension, me! I'm not sure if I'll see a time when anti-gay attitudes are well and truly marginalized, but we are slowly getting closer.

[rl6214]

2. That's my team

Well said Ryan