"I was so ashamed of what happened on the House floor, that this could happen in 2013," said Sims, 34, a civil-rights lawyer who came out while captain of his Bloomsburg College football team. "It was utterly wrong by any measuring stick. No one should be cut off from speaking on the House floor because you disagree with him. I found what Rep. Metcalfe did was so un-American, so unpatriotic."