Boxing Champion Tyson Fury Accused Of "Aggressive" Homophobia By British Politician
Openly gay British Labor Party politician Chris Bryant is calling out boxing champ Tyson Fury for what Bryant calls "aggressive" homophobia that he says is "precisely the kind that leads to young gay suicides."
Bryant sent the tweet out yesterday, following Fury's defeat of Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday night, a win that brought in an estimated £4m ($6 million) in profits.
Bryant's disregard of Fury's win was ignited by a controversial interview Fury gave to The Mail earlier this month in which he offered a diatribe equating homosexuality and abortion with pedophilia (sound familiar?).
"There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home,' he said. "One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is pedophilia. Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalized?"
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell condemned Fury saying, "Tyson is a brilliant boxer but a very bigoted and confused Christian. To equate same-sex love with abortion and pedophilia is deranged and offensive."
This is, of course, not Fury's first time uttering anti-gay rhetoric. In 2013, the British Boxing Board of Control fined Fury £3,000 ($4500) for branding Liverpool fighters David Price and Tony Bellew "gay lovers."
h/t: Gay Times
