Sure,
Michael Sam Got
Drafted — But **w the
Real Test Begins
After
Michael Sam got
Drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of Saturday's NFL Draft
— making him league's first openly gay draftee in its 94-year history
— congratulations and adulations poured in from all corners of the Internet. Rams brass
insisted they simply "drafted a good football player," with ** mind toward his ***ual orientation. U.S. President Barack Obama released a
statement commending Sam's trailblazing status
An important, feel-good moment, to be sure. But **w the draft is over, and the
Real Test Begins — for Sam, for the
NFL and for an American society that's still **t entirely in tune with the progress gay rights have made over the past several years
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