sam, a projected mid round pick who played for college in missouri told teammates about sexual orientation in august. i was scared to tell them. just to see the reaction was awesome. they supported me from day one. reporter: many former teammates took to social media to rally around the 6 2 250 pound lineman. it takes a lot of courage to do what he did and we are behind him all the way. sam launched a twitter account sunday night to thank everyone for their support. his announcement, a landmark moment in confronting homeo phobia in professional sports. it is important to remind people his teammates, coaches, they knew about this all year. it didn t break overnight
focus on the family is saying focus on the bully. is that an effective program? well, two things. one is that as a counselor who is actually going to be administrating this program, you have so many things to do that usually what happens is even with all these mandates the best you re going to get is a 45-minute presentation with like 500 kids. because a lot of our programs in schools are at big schools. 3,000 kids. 2,500 kids. so the logistics of this make this pretty much impossible to be able to do. that s the first thing. second, this is not just about the gay kids in school. it s about everybody. because bullying does not exist without home-o-phobia. kids are proving, they have to prove they belong to be men. they have to prove that, you know, you re in seventh grade and you say something, you re speaking out about something being cruel, then someone s going to say to you don t be gay. and that stops you from being able to say what you want to say, which is don t do it. and so t