I am going to hope that Brees didn’t know who he was recording this video for, but the fact he has been associated with this group since 2010, makes you wonder if he knew exactly what he was doing.
This is basically a cult that is against anything white and christian.
Here is how it all went down via The Big Easy
On Thursday, August 29 the anti-LGBTQ+ religious group Focus on the Family released a video featuring none other than Saints star quarterback, Drew Brees.
The short video features Brees encouraging children to participate in the group’s “Bring Your Bible to School Day” on October 3, presumably so that they can “live their faith” by “sharing God’s love” and attempting to convert their fellow students at school.
What is surprising is the anti-bullying advocate‘s support of a religious group known to be one of the most well funded anti-LGBT organizations in the country. Focus on the Family supports and promotes the practice of “conversion therapy,” which uses a combination of shaming, emotionally manipulative and traumatic stimuli, and physically painful stimuli in order to “cure” LGBTQ+ people of their sexual orientation.
Focus on the Family has also regularly fought against anti-discrimination practices protecting the LGBTQ+ community. In Colorado, they launched an ad campaign against Governor Bill Ritter and other state legislators who were in support of a nondiscrimination bill. In Alaska, the group sent out robocalls urging residents to support an amendment nullifying same-sex partner employment benefits, and they support business owners who want to turn away LGBTQ+ customers, saying their religion “requires them to oppose [LGBTQ+ people’s] very existence.”
I am not surprised that this hasn’t gotten more national attention.
Even the concept of bringing a bible to school to try to convert kids is a bit creepy.
Several organizations have reached out to Brees about it, but he hasn’t any comment.
Flip the page for evidence, Brees knows exactly who these people are and his PSA.