Gay ally and Minnesota Viking football player Chris Kluwe is concerned his activism will keep him off the team’s 2013-2014 roster.

The National Football League punter sent a note to the NBC website PFT after his team drafted another punter in the most recent draft (held 25 April to 27 April).

‘It’s a shame that in a league with players given multiple second chances after arrests, including felony arrests, that speaking out on human rights has a chance of getting you cut,’ Kluwe texted to the site.

Kluwe’s staunch support for gay equality has been public since last September when he wrote an open letter to Maryland Assembly Delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. The delegate was upset with then Baltimore Ravens’ linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo and his advocacy for gay marriage. Burns wanted the owner of the team to ‘inhibit such expressions.’ Kluwe’s scorching message went viral.

This past February Kluwe, a married straight man with two children, was honored at the Family Equality Council’s awards dinner in Los Angeles. He explained what made him compose such a provocative message.

‘The fight for gay rights is about the children, it’s about having access to the same laws, the same benefits, the same protections so these children can have every advantage and a chance to succeed at life,’ he said. ‘It’s about not having to worry about being bullied on your way to school or while you’re walking down the street. It’s about living in a stable home with parents who love each other and who just so happen to be the same sex.’

While Kluwe’s professional future might be murky, Ayanbadejo’s unfortunately isn’t. He was cut from the Raven’s in early April. After some initial confusion, the linebacker maintains the reasons were due to football concerns.

‘I said my talk was louder than my production & at 36 when you are not producing it is a fair move. You can find cheaper guys to do what I do,’ Ayanbadejo said on his Twitter feed on 5 April.