Oct 30, 2022; Orchard Park, New York, USA; NBC Sports commentator and former NFL head coach Tony Dungy on the air before a game between the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers at Highmark Stadium. | Mark Konezny-Imagn Images

Tony Dungy may have never seen a Christian homophobe he doesn’t like.

The former NFL coach and current NBC football commentator has long been an apologist for Christians who are sexist, racist, homophobic, beat their girlfriends, kill dogs or anything else a self-defined good “Christian” might do.

While he said he wouldn’t want a gay player like Michael Sam on his team, he literally tried to get NFL teams to hire dog-murderer Michael Vick.

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is his latest salvation project.

Dungy recently gave an interview to OutKick in which he defended Butker’s indefensible tirade against everyone and everything that didn’t line up with his world view, telling women they’ll be more happy staying in the kitchen making dinner for their husband, equating gay people to a deadly sin, and demeaning anyone born through IVF and surrogacy as well as the people — including many same-sex couples — engaged in those practices.

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For Dungy, that seems to be all fine.

“I thought it was taken totally out of context,” Dungy lied about Butker’s speech. “If you listen to what he was saying there wasn’t anything to be offended by. He said a lot of these ladies are going to have great careers, but some of them and many of them might find that their most meaningful thing in life is parenting, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.”

Dungy telling gay people, women, same-sex couples and anyone born through IVF and surrogacy that they were wrong to be offended is typical of the deeply privileged Christian apostolate.

Dungy then, of course, made the conversation all about him and the rightful criticism he has taken for saying horrible and false things about LGBTQ people, including his years-long effort to prevent me from marrying my husband.

“I’m a Christian, I know that’s why I take heat, and sometimes when you elicit those values and say this is what the Bible says and this is what I stand on, [and if] people don’t believe in the Bible, and they don’t want to hear that, then they are going to be upset,” he said.

Of course, Dungy is completely wrong. Him being Christian is not why he takes “heat.” He receives deserved criticism mostly because he is a deeply problematic homophobe who aims to take away people’s rights.

“That’s the way I talk, that’s what I stand on, and I think Harrison is the same way,” Dungy continued in his self-pity rant. “And so if you’re talking about biblical principles, there’s always going to be some people that get offended by that, and they say keep that out of our sport, keep that out of politics, keep your religious beliefs to yourself; and unfortunately for them, I’m not going to do that. So, that comes across as being unlikeable sometimes.”

Dungy is again an NFL commentator for NBC, which just shrugs its shoulders every time he says something awful like this.