Blake Griffin covers GQ, claims hes a creationist but not a homophobe

Its weird that were doing more sports/athletes stories these days, right? So, I was going to skip this GQ cover with LA Clipper Blake Griffin until I read some of the interview excerpts. Now I cant wait to see what happens in the comment section. The October issue of GQ is their first-ever Age Issue

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It’s weird that we’re doing more sports/athletes stories these days, right? So, I was going to skip this GQ cover with LA Clipper Blake Griffin until I read some of the interview excerpts. Now I can’t wait to see what happens in the comment section. The October issue of GQ is their first-ever “Age Issue” and in addition to Blake’s cover, I guess Chadwick Boseman, Norman Reedus, Clive Owen and Tom Selleck will also be getting covers or significant features too. That’s a great line-up, actually. All of those dudes are interesting. So, as for this Griffin interview… dude is a straight-up creationist. As in, he believes the earth is about 6000 years old. He was home-schooled, he’s pretty religious, but he makes a point of saying he’s not a homophobe. You can read the GQ article here, and here are some highlights:

Dating in LA: “People just think about L.A. and they think, “Oh, there’s so many beautiful women out here,” and things of that nature. But it is so hard to find just like a decent, like straight, you know, across-the-line, just like good girl out here. And I think part of it might be because I’m used to, you know, the midwestern kind of girls, and things like that. But I honestly haven’t really truly dated anybody for a while. Not in a real close sense.”

Whether he goes to church: “I haven’t in a while. But I still—I go with my brother and his wife. They have a little Bible-study thing out here. What’s great about now is, growing up and being in Oklahoma, I think the idea of people who are religious is they try to shove their religion on you, and they think that that’s the only way. They’re very judgmental. And I try to kind of take the approach of “Whatever it is you do, cool.”

The reaction to his stated belief in creationism: “Yeah, I was a little bit—just because, like, if you said you believe in evolution, I’m not gonna be like, “You f–king idiot!” You know what I mean? I’m just gonna kind of be like, “That’s whatever.”

Whether he believes in science: “I believe in science. I believe in all of that. I just… Honestly, when I’m at the beach and I’m looking at the ocean, I’m looking at the mountains and the sun is setting, I’m seeing people running up and down, laughing, having fun, I’m like, “This had to be created. This is created.” And that’s my personal thing.

He hasn’t thought about creationism too much: “If you ask like 90 percent of the people in Oklahoma, they’d agree. And then when you get to coasts, it’s very, very different. And a lot of people are very closed-minded when it comes to things like that, and don’t—I don’t want to say closed-minded, but it’s their way or the highway. And it’s unfortunate that people on both sides are very closed-minded about it. Because there are religious people who are very closed-minded to a lot of things that aren’t necessarily right, in my opinion. So it’s on both sides.

He’s not a homophobe: “I hate when I see Christians, or whatever religion it is, protesting gays and having signs that say, like, “God hates gays.” Because I’ve studied a lot of different religions; going to Christian school, we had a class where we would look at different religions, and we would kind of break them down and compare and contrast. And the Bible, take the Bible. So you believe in the Bible? God used women who were prostitutes, He used people that were stealers, people that were considered sinners, whatever the term may be, and He used them as His…to be examples of His teachings and things. Not make an example out of them, but actually use them. So, like, how can you say that God hates anybody? I’m saying, how could He be mad at somebody for liking the same sex? I don’t get it. And it also makes me mad, because as a religious person, it makes you look bad. I think it’s unfortunate.

[From GQ]

Eh, I say… leave him alone. He’s right about one thing: growing up in Oklahoma, he was probably saturated with deeply-held Christian beliefs and that’s affected his worldview. But he doesn’t seem judgy about it, you know? He’s not a Duggar.

He also talks about Donald Sterling and how he (Blake) knew from the beginning that Sterling was a racist. Blake was not surprised by how things turned out at all.

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Photos courtesy of Sebastin Kim/GQ and WENN.


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