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ProtestGayDay.com declares victory
Group goes after Texas Rangers, demonstrates at Six Flags

Posted: September 20, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Fresh off what he considers a major victory in a fight against "Gay Day" at the Ballpark in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers, the head of ProtestGayDay.com has organized a demonstration today at Six Flags over Texas in Dallas.

According to a statement from organizer Rick Warden, supporters will be protesting the theme park's sixth annual "Gay Day" beginning at 9:30 a.m. local time.

On Sunday, ProtestGayDay.com declared victory in its protest of what had been billed, at least in some publications, as a "Gay Day" at the Ballpark in Arlington. The group claims due to pressure applied via the media, only 200 tickets were purchased by homosexuals for Sunday's baseball game.

"We praise God that through the media we were able to detour the homosexuals from buying the tickets and therefore also from being recognized in front of thousands of families and nation wide television," said the group's website.

ProtestGayDay.com says 2,200 signatures were gathered on a petition in protest of what it says were plans to recognize homosexuals at the game.

The site also rebuts statements from Rangers officials that the team had not planned for an official "Gay Day":

"Mike Cramer, who is the president of operations with the Texas Rangers organization, has repeatedly refused to address the article in the Dallas Voice newspaper (a homosexual publication) stating, 'Gay Day at the Ballpark will be the first time a major professional athletic team has reached out to the gay community and offered to help organize such an event.'"

The group called on the Rangers to hold the paper accountable if the quote attributed to Cramer were untrue.

ProtestGayDay.com sent an e-mail to Cramer referencing the Six Flags protest:

"'Gay Day' at Six Flags Over Texas is Saturday 9-20-03. These people are counting on the fact that we Christians are too busy entertaining ourselves to stand up to them and do anything about having 'Gay Day.' Until now they've been right in their assumption. We Christians have had a great awakening. We repent of our sins. We are committed to Jesus Christ to stand and be active."

The group formed specifically to protest the Rangers' "Gay Day." In its mission statement, it states: "The Texas Rangers have a responsibility as a sports team, that children look toward as role models, to act on the behalf of and in the best interest of their fans. This event legitimizes the perverted homosexual lifestyle in the eyes of the unsuspecting innocent child. Homosexual [sic] are still very much a minority group and families will not sit back and let them take over our communities. The Texas Rangers should be ashamed."

Besides today's protest, the organization is battling a plan by Dallas-Forth Worth area Starbucks to donate funds to a "gay pride" parade scheduled for tomorrow, encouraging members to protest outside the coffee houses.

Note From Rick Warden To DallasMike, sinkspur & All Other Scoffers: ENOUGH SAID!

Rick Warden
www.ProtestGayDay.com

Texas Rangers ‘Gay Day’ a Bust 9/17/2003
By Martha Kleder
Christian protesters outnumber homosexual attendees at The Ballpark.
The 8 by 4 foot neon green sign outside the Texas Rangers’ Arlington stadium near Dallas on Sunday night proclaimed the outcome: “Christians 300, ‘Gays’ 200, Jesus wins.”
That was the final score as Christians rallied outside the stadium in protest of what was billed in the media as “Gay Day at The Ballpark.”
Those 300 protesters included members from two local churches on hand to pray and witness and 100 who bused in from Heritage Baptist Church in Mount Enterprise, Texas, 180 miles away.
Despite claims from the Resource Center of Dallas that they would draw 1,000 homosexual baseball fans to Sunday night’s game, the group was able to sell only 200 tickets for the special roped-off section.
“This is a victory,” Rick Warden told CWA's Culture and Family Institute. “This was a larger victory than simply protesters outnumbering homosexuals.” Warden heads www.protestgayday.com, an organization formed to speak out against the tide of homosexual acceptance.
“This victory included winning the battle in the media for the attention of Christians who have grown complacent. It included persuading two couples attending with children in tow to skip the game and join the protest,” he said.
“Three young men were led to Christ, and another couple of men who were headed to the game decided to stay away that night because of the promotion of homosexuality scheduled for that night,” Warden added.
”You have caught the attention of people across the nation”
“But aside from the three who accepted Christ, the best news of the night was an e-mail that was waiting for me when I returned home,” he said. The e-mail, which came from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, reads in part:
“Thank you for your example of courage, conviction, and love. After the event in Arlington this evening, do not let the energy and momentum fade. You have caught the attention of people across the nation, and you have begun to unite Christians like myself who are waiting for an opportunity to come to the front lines of battle, to proclaim the saving grace of Jesus Christ.”
The battle over ‘Gay Day’ is not over for Warden. This coming weekend, Six Flags Over Texas will hold its annual ‘Gay Day,’ and the Dallas area will hold its 20th annual “Gay Pride” Parade; now renamed “The Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade.”
Warden says that he and several supporters will be on hand to protest the homosexual event at Six Flags.
It apparently started with a sales rep
Meanwhile, there has been much controversy over how the Texas Rangers “Gay Day” came into being. It appears to have boiled down to a new salesman who had previous dealings with homosexual groups.
“A sales representative who helped organize last year’s Gay Day for the Dallas Burn, the city’s major league soccer team, now works for the Rangers and brought the idea for Gay Day at The Ballpark with him,” Gil Flores, services director for the John Thomas Gay and Lesbian Community Center, told The Dallas Voice, the regional homosexual newspaper. The Rangers acknowledge that their representative made the outreach, but they say that it was a routine matter.
Rangers owner Mike Cramer has denied in numerous interviews that “Gay Day at The BallPark” exists. He noted that the Rangers simply sold a block of tickets to the homosexual group, just as they have sold tickets to other groups, including some with religious affiliations.
“The Rangers could have nixed this block sale if they wanted,” said Robert H. Knight, director of CWA’s Culture and Family Institute. “Their explanation that they offer this to anybody and everybody does not wash. Any group promoting sexual perversity should be considered beyond the pale. And comparing sales to religious groups is an insult. You mean they can’t tell the difference between, say, the First Baptist Church and a group that promotes homosexual sodomy?
“We believe the Rangers, as a private organization, have the right to make this offer, but we also believe that Mr. Warden and his supporters are within their rights to call it to the public’s attention and to let Ranger fans decide whether it’s fine for their team to tacitly promote homosexuality,” Knight said.
Not as bad as Philly
“Gay Day” at the Arlington stadium is a far cry from the blatant promotion of homosexuality at a recent Philadelphia Phillies game. There, homosexual groups were welcomed on the scoreboard, the leader of the homosexual group threw out the first pitch, and homosexuals brought banners and cavorted during the game.
By contrast, the Rangers held no field activities or official acknowledgements during the September 14th game against Oakland.
“Watching this controversy unfold, I think the Rangers hit a foul ball,” Knight said. “If there truly was no ‘Gay Day’ at Arlington, why didn’t the team’s front office call for the homosexual press to correct this impression?
“Like many Americans today, they seem unnecessarily fearful of offending the homosexual lobby. Texas is legendary for its people’s courage. In fact, Texans are quite fond of the phrase, “one riot, one ranger,” referring to the grit of the Texas Rangers lawmen.
“Texas is home to the Alamo. Would Davey Crockett and the other defenders of the Alamo identify today with Rick Warden, or with the ‘gays’ who made their sexuality everybody’s business at The Ballpark?”
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/4593/CWA/nation/

Rick Warden
www.ProtestGayDay.com

Note From Rick Warden To DallasMike, sinkspur & All Other Scoffers: ENOUGH SAID!

From the WorldNet Daily article:

"The group called on the Rangers to hold the paper accountable if the quote attributed to Cramer were untrue."

The article then goes on to say, in a quote taken directly from your website (emphasis added):

"Mike Cramer, who is the President of Operations with the Texas Rangers organization, has repeatedly refused to address the article in the Dallas Voice Newspaper stating, “Gay Day at the Ballpark will be the first time a major professional athletic team has reached out to the gay community and offered to help organize such an event.”

I heard Mike Cramer live on the Scott Wilder address the article (he did the same thing on WBAP, I understand), and the transcript of the Wilder Show interview can be found here where he says

"[The Dallas Voice] know[s] [the article is] incorrect and they should correct it."

Cramer publicly called on the Dallas Voice to correct the article. Yet you maintain on your website that the Rangers still refuse to address the Dallas Voice article or call upon the paper to correct itself. Why is your lie still on your website? Don't you have the same duty to correct your website as the Dallas Voice has to correct their article?

I could also ding you for your sentence structure on your website, which makes it appear at first blush that Mike Cramer made the quote, but I'll let that one go even though I suspect it was fully intentional on your part.

Further, Mr. Cramer said the following in his Scott Wilder interview:

Mr. Warden has a “quote” from me that says that the Rangers have consistently denied that one of our representatives contacted this group. Mr. Warden knows that that’s not true. ...

"In the first conversation I ever had with [Rick Warden], and in scores of emails that I’ve sent around to people, we have acknowledged that one of our ticket representatives contacted this group as well as hundreds, probably thousands, of other groups in the spring—and in April."

So why do keep on telling lies about the Texas Rangers? Why do you call me a scoffer and ask me to "repent of my sins" when you're the one who is slandering others in your website? Is slandering wrong or does your Bible say something different from mine?

Funny how you want the Rangers to hold the gay paper accountable for the lies they told in their paper but are glad that the Rangers don't hold you accountable for the lies you tell in your website. It looks like you've misled WorldNet Daily and Concerned Women for America, too.

Care to address this issue or do you wish to call me names again? When you "judge and discern according to the wisdom of the Holy Bible that [I] should have read more," does it say anything about how you ought to tell the truth more?

The truth hurts like hell, doesn't it, Rick?