Hannah hidalgo gay marriage

Instead, I was relieved to feel embraced and safe. He graduated from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga before earning his master's degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee, but wants it on the record that he does not bleed orange. Peaceful. Former Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw shared her thoughts, stating it was "almost insulting" to Hidalgo's teammates – and fans have been quick to heckle the star about it as well.

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"What I reposted hurt a lot of people," she began.

I have teammates that I play with every single day, practice with them every day that are homosexual too.

McGraw called it a “poor choice.”

“I thought that it was almost insulting to her teammates, to everybody in the game of basketball,” McGraw said on ESPN columnist Sarah Spain’s podcast. She went through Notre Dame’s entire season — one that has been characterized as an underachievement for it ending in the Sweet 16 when the team, formerly ranked No.

1 in the nation in February, had serious Final Four aspirations — without doing so. Among the group was Olivia Miles, who took a not-so-subtle shot at Hidalgo on her way out of South Bend.

Miles reposted a TikTok video stating, "Treating people right is better than posting Bible verses you don’t even practice." She then added her own caption to the video that read "Can't treat people bad then hide behind religion."

A few days after Miles' TikTok, players leaving the program, her former coach Muffett McGraw calling the post "insulting," and months of scrutiny on social media for sharing the Owens clip, Hidalgo addressed the situation in a letter published in The Player's Tribune.

Hidalgo wrote about the difficulty of trying to navigate life as a 19-year-old while becoming more well-known in the media world before talking about the post she shared to Instagram.

"When you’re 19 years old and trying to figure your life out, and you start to get buzz on social media – when you suddenly have a platform – it can be really overwhelming," Hidalgo wrote.

"It’s a learning process.

I love everyone, regardless of what skin color, what belief, what religion, regardless of what you think, because the Lord calls us to love everyone."

Of note, it was reported in 2022 that 38 percent of all WNBA players were part of the LGBTQ+ community, showing just how out of touch Hidalgo's decision to post the video was.

"No, absolutely not," she continued.

“Nobody wants to tell Hannah Hidalgo what she should feel and what she should believe, but man, that is something that caught a lot of people off guard. I will go to war for any single one of my teammates, and they know that.”

In January, former Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw — a two-time national champion who has a statue of herself outside of Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Ind.

— addressed Hidalgo sharing the Owens-Lemon video on Instagram. On court, Hidalgo wowed right from her freshman year 2023-24 as a Fighting Irish, bagging First-Team All-American accolades.

Her performance at 19 did not go unnoticed by WNBA scouts, putting her in line for a top-five draft pick when she's draft-eligible in 2027. It’s hard to trust when you have somebody that believes that what you believe is wrong."

Despite deleting the post, fans made sure to remind Hidalgo of what she had done and who she had insulted.

"It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman. This was highlighted when former Baylor star Brittney Griner discussed how ex-coach Kim Mulkey supposedly suppressed her identity.

"When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out," she revealed to ESPN in 2013.

I actually don’t believe marriage can be between two men.”

Hidalgo did not publicly address sharing the post until she authored a Players’ Tribune piece in early April. It’s who she is, and she’s not walking that part of herself back in light of what’s happened. “I was really disappointed that it came out that way.

Every single time I say it, I feel so much better."

It wasn't until Mulkey exited Baylor for LSU that Griner had her jersey honoured; the Bears celebrated her by raising it to the rafters in the season past.

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The spotlight turned to Hidalgo following virality of her post last weekend, sparking immediate controversy, with implications for her WNBA Draft prospects yet unclear.

But realizing that I had this new responsibility and that I’d let people down, given the wrong impression, maybe even hurt people I care about – that got me spiraling," she continued in the letter.

She then went on to call her sharing of the Owens clip a "mistake" and told the world that she loves "all people."

"I grew a lot from the conversations I had coming off that mistake, especially with friends I was afraid I’d hurt.

Which goes double if it’s somebody else you’re amplifying – as opposed to something that comes from your heart, that reflects your character and authentic self. “You’re in a sinful relationship. Considering how many players in the league are in the community, the star was asked if she was a homophobe, which she vehemently denied.

In fact, she wrote in the Players’ Tribune article that she deleted her social media apps and leaned even further into religion last summer at the height of her self-induced controversy.