Texas September 18th , 2004
"homosexuality is a mental illness"
Posted on 07/26/2004 12:49:18 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
"homosexuality is a mental illness"
While I agree with your sentiment, it's not that easy in practice. Every group in the area uses the Six Flags name in their advertisements. If Six Flags lets other groups use their name, then the courts would toss out any attempt to prevent gays from using their name. The result would be lots of pro-gay advertisement and a wonderful opportunity for the media to portray conservative Christians as haters.I wish that I didn't disagree with you, but Donald Widemon would do better to focus his efforts elsewhere. This one is a lose-lose situation.
Disney embraces homosexuality throughout the company, almost certainly has more homosexual employees per capita than any other major company in the world. Do a little research about what it's really like behind the masks and behind the stages of Disney World.
And BTW, God doesn't hate homosexuals, just the sin of homosexuality. It is an unusual sin in that it's set aside by being classified in the Bible as an abomination. Understandable when you think about it, since it's one thing that goes against the natural order of life itself, a segment of life that can't reproduce and thus can't even survive without recruiting others into its fold.
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Yep. Remember when the Rangers sold a block of tickets to some gay group last summer, and the gay group began to advertise that they were going to the game as a group?
Well, an evangelical pastor decided he was going to protest the Rangers and blame the Rangers for sponsoring a "gay day."
The Rangers were sponsoring nothing; they just sold 50 tickets to somebody.
The pastor ranted and raved on Mark Davis' show on 820 and begged and pleaded for people to come out and protest the presence of gay people sitting together at a baseball game.
Well, when the day came, the gays went to the ballgame and six protesters showed up.
Well guess I'll not buy season tickets or any other kind next year.
In fact, anyone with AIDS should be suing any owner of the place where they engaged in whaatever that resulted in AIDS for acting as "enabler" and not adequately warning/instructing them of the risks. They post notices wanring about the risks of alcohol to pregnant women, shouldn't they also have to warn about fairies cathcing the AIDS?
Edwards will argue that his client went to Fairy Day, had too much to drink and, "Wham, bam, thank you Bruce," he had AIDS. That would cost Six Flags, BIG TIME!!
Yes, I do. You and I both took it on the chin on that thread.
"To be fair, how big a shock can it be when we are talking about the event two months before it happens?"
I know I won't miss it.........
....the hell I won't!
The real issue is the conduct of the "Gay Days" participants at Six Flags. IMO, if there's no inappropriate public behavior in front of the kids, there's no problem. I don't have any knowledge of "Gay Days" at Six Flags these past eight years, but if it's anything like the pictures from "Gay Days" at DisneyWorld that others on this forum have directed me to, I'd be thankful for the warning if I were planning on bringing the kids.
Yes, and the pastor was dishonest, too (here and here). Not exactly a good witness.
What does that have to do with sexual deviancy and wanting to shield ourselves and our children from having to view it at a family-friendly amusement park?
If I were you, I wouldn't go on September 18.
ARRGH, not this again. Someone in the Rangers organization SOUGHT THEM OUT and combined groups for a bulk discount. The Rangers DID have a hand in it.
Why not just require all groups to provide their names to a "registry"?
Thus anyone can just look and be informed.
Thus if a christian group is going to have a group attendance at six flags ALL who would be offended by the presence of christian groups. (linda ronstat) can stay home.
It is worth noting that Dollywood asked a homosexual group to NOT use her logo or in any way imply an official Dollywood homosexual event.
(seriously are homosexual that scared that people will keep their children home on those days? and why would it matter to them?)
Have to wonder why people who do not sire children want to spend the day at a costly playground.
So what if the ticket office gave a couple of combined groups a bigger discount?
This was proven to be a lie by a self-promoting evangelical pastor last September.
Not only won't I go to Six Flags Over Texas on September 18th, but I'll never again go to any Six Flags amusement park as long as they continue to allow "Gay Day" events to take place there.
I'm sure they'll be crushed.
Andy Silverman, the Rangers’ vice president of ticket sales, said the “sheer earning potential” of the gay community was a factor in the team’s decision to sponsor Gay Day. The gay community has tremendous buying power, and “we can’t ignore that.”
The Ballpark in Arlington has group promotions to everyone from the Jewish Community Center to the Boy Scouts, according to Silverman.
“Everyone is welcome at the ballpark,” he said.
“We’re trying to get as many people as possible to the ballpark,” said Blake. The team isn’t worried that marketing toward gay fans will hurt attendance, he added. With ticket sales down, Silverman said, the Rangers are marketing to as many people as possible.
Mack Williamson, president of the Texas Gay Rodeo Association’s Dallas chapter, said he was “very surprised” the Rangers contacted the gay community.
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