Posted on 09/10/2003 9:20:23 PM PDT by Coleus
ProtestGayDay.com Exists To Protect & Preserve Our Innocent Youth Against The Homosexual Agenda
Protest or PRAY with us at the Ballpark in Arlington at 6:00 pm on Sunday, Sept 14th.
Game Start Time Is 7:05 pm - Protest Organizes at 6:00 pm
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The Straight Truth About ProtestGayDay.com 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.” Instead, he insinuates that the Rangers did not have their salesperson personally contact the homosexual groups. On the contrary, Gil Flores maintains: “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, according to Gil Flores, services director for the John Thomas Gay and Lesbian Community Center.” It appears that the Texas Rangers Organization is just spinning the truth to downplay their involvement. The Bible calls that a lie, and so do we at ProtestGayDay.com. The Rangers (Mike Cramer) says that Gay Day does not exist. IF this is true, then WHY haven't the Rangers asked the Dallas Voice to retract their announcement of this event? Why haven't the Ranger's "gone after" the DV for publishing a bunch of lies? There's been no retraction, and to my knowledge no demand for any retraction? Mike Cramer stated on The Wilder Show that the Rangers did not have the time to go after every group that prints false information about the Rangers. As KCBI 90.9 FM stated in the news, “the Texas Rangers got more than what they bargained for." For the sake of loyal Texas Rangers fans and families, the Rangers should have taken the time to stop this homosexual propaganda. It would have taken one phone call. I asked Mike Cramer to have the Dallas Voice retract their statements 4 weeks ago. I informed him that if they did not make the Dallas Voice retract their statements, then ProtestGayDay.com would be obligated to let the people know.
& “TEXAS RANGERS TO HOLD GAY DAY”
At The Ballpark In Arlington.
Words In Quotations Taken From The Gay & Lesbian Newspaper Article
We are receiving a lot of emails about us protesting the Rangers. I need to be clear about what we are doing. We are protesting both the homosexuals and the Texas Rangers. We are protesting the homosexuals for using a family institution such as baseball, the Texas Rangers and our Ballpark in Arlington to legitimize their perverted lifestyles. The homosexuals ARE NOT simply going out to watch a baseball game with their buddies. They are going to push their perverted homosexual agendas in an effort to gain some sort of normalcy to their kind. They want you and your children to see them and accept them as normal. God did not make man to have sex with another man, nor a woman with another woman. It is not normal. It will never be normal. To think that it is natural is insanity. God obviously made man's anatomy for the purpose of reproduction. We promote salvation and deliverance for the homosexuals. Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for all of our sins. They can be saved just like we got saved. Deliverance is going to be more of a challenge for a homosexual though. We will help you through the trials ahead. It's never easy going back up the mountain once you have fallen, but with help from brothers and sisters in Christ, it is much more bearable. Our purpose is to bring “Gay Day” to the attention of families so that they can be informed and be able to make the decision that they feel is in the best interest of their children and families. They also need to know the truth about how the Rangers contacted and negotiated the sale of tickets with the homosexuals. They may have convictions to not ever go to a game at the Ballpark again. We also have a petition on our website that people are signing to have their voices heard and morals to be known. We are protesting to make a stand for righteousness. People all across America and around the world need to know that there are decent moral people still in the United States that are willing to make sacrifices to protect and preserve our children and families.
Lastly, we are protesting the Texas Rangers Organization to hold them accountable. They should just admit the truth. They had their sales representative contact and negotiate the sale of tickets to the homosexuals just like he did before with the Dallas Burn.The Texas Rangers have a responsibility as a sports team, which children look towards as role models, to act on the behalf of and in the best interest of their fans. This event legitimizes the perverted Gay & Lesbian lifestyle in the eyes of the unsuspecting, innocent child. Homosexuals 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. They are the ones who contacted Gil Flores, who is the services director for the John Thomas Gay and Lesbian Community Center. The Texas Rangers reached out to the homosexual community in hope of getting some extra ticket sales. That's the bottom line and they are therefore responsible for legitimizing the homosexuals in the eyes of our children.
2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
Thank you for your support of families,
Rick Warden
ProtestGayDay.com
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Mansfield, TX 76063
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Important Note
Article In The Dallas Voice Newspaper
WARNING: Homosexual Paper
www.dallasvoice.com/articles/dispArticle.cfm?Article_ID=3256
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Note: "GAY DAY" At Six Flags (Arlington, TX) is September 20th, 2003
LOL ! ...
I thought we've determined that there is no Gay day.
Don't fret. I'm sure you can find some other examples of it on the web.
On group sales, teams usually mention the groups in a variety of ways--the least of which is a scoreboard acknowledgement.
So would the Rangers acknowledge a "Swingers" group id'd as such? (I suppose they would make group sales available to them)
What about a nudist group? Same thing?
What about a pedophile group? Same?
Where do or where would the Rangers draw the line, if at all?
The homosexuals certainly believe that there is "gay day". Open your eyes.
Did you know that Little League says it does not discriminate on the basis of "sexual orientation" & then doesn't define "sexual orientation"...Maybe that's why it had to implement a national sex offenders volunteer background check...Once ya open the door, ya gotta weed out perps
Basically, I suppose NAMBLA could start Little League booster clubs all over the place...if there was any formal linkage, all Little League could do would be to conduct background checks...Otherwise it can't "discriminate"
hehe ! Sorry 'bout that.
That first pic is likely a spoof, but that second one is an actual pic of the first
'happy couple' legally married in Canada.
Gay Day set for Sunday at BallparkIndependent Baptist church in Venus organizes protest; gay groups see gains in promotion
By Angela Geralds
Staff ReporterThe Texas Rangers and Oakland A’s will take the field Sunday evening, but the battle between two other longstanding rivals — the gay community and the religious right — has generated the most pre-game hype. Game time is scheduled at 7:05 p.m. on Sunday at The Ballpark in Arlington. But the controversy about a ticket sales promotion involving gay community groups has raged for at least two weeks.
Earlier this summer, a representative of the Texas Rangers sales force contacted Gil Flores, service director of the John Thomas Gay and Lesbian Community Center, and asked if Flores would organize a group ticket sale to the gay community.
Flores agreed and enlisted six other gay organizations to participate with the Resource Center of Dallas, which operates the community center.
“They [the Rangers] said we could market it any way we wanted,” Flores said. “So we told them we’d market it as Gay Day at the Ballpark.” Representatives of the gay groups met to coordinate the event in a suite provided by the Rangers.
That was too much for Rick Warden and others affiliated with Kingdom Baptist Church in Venus, who have organized a protest of the event.
Warden, who owns a Mansfield house painting and drywall repair business, has railed against the event on local talk radio programs and on a Web site set up by the protesters, called Protestgayday.com. Warden said his group is protesting Gay Day at the Ballpark because his group sees the event as an effort by the gay community to use a family-oriented environment to “legitimize their perverted lifestyles.”
The group is also protesting the Rangers for working with the gay community to organize the promotion. Rangers representatives said such group promotions are common, ranging from the Jewish Community Center to the Boy Scouts of America.
Warden and Flores faced off Monday night on Sports Radio 1310 AM The Ticket’s Big Dick’s P1 Wild Ass Circus. A Texas Rangers representative was invited to appear on the two-hour program, but the team declined, e-mailing a statment that said the gay community is being treated no differently than any other group that buys tickets. Warden and Texas Rangers president and CEO Mike Cramer appeared Tuesday evening on The Scott Wilder Show on The Word 100.7 FM, a religious-oriented station. On the program, Cramer said the Texas Rangers are not holding a Gay Day but confirmed the organization is selling a block of tickets to gay groups.
A Dallas Voice headline over a July 25 story about the event was raised during the program. Cramer said the headline, “Rangers to hold Gay Day,” was untrue, but the Rangers president said he would not formally request that the newspaper issue a correction.
Dallas Voice editor Dennis Vercher said the newspaper would not issue a correction or retraction. “A Rangers representative got this promotion going.” Vercher said, “The team said the groups could promote it any way they wished, and the gay groups informed the team early on of their intention to market it as Gay Day at the Ballpark. It was only after the protest began that the Rangers developed cold feet about the particular name.” In an e-mail exchange, the Rangers president spoke of Warden’s “misguided, personal vendetta against the gay community and the Texas Rangers” and expressed thanks that Warden’s “15 minutes of abused time on a very narrow stage will soon be at an end.”
Flores called Warden “an uneducated person who is a little misguided,” and said he has misstated some facts regarding the event. And he said despite Cramer’s statements, the team continues to support efforts by the gay community groups.
“The big-wigs panic at anything, but they’re still being very supportive,” Flores said of Rangers. Flores said staff members affiliated with the team have assured him that “this stuff happens” and “it’s no big deal.”
The Rev. Joey Faust, pastor of Kingdom Baptist Church, said just as gays have the right to organize an event at the ball park, his church has the right to protest homosexuality. Kingdom is an Independent Baptist church, with views similar to the Southern Baptist Convention, Faust said.
On the church’s website, www.kingdombaptist.org, Faust directs mothers to stay home and raise their children, and says children should be home-schooled. Members are admonished to “refrain from worldly TV and movies” and are advised, “The safest way to accomplish this is to totally remove the TV from the home.” Women are instructed to “be silent in the mixed assembly (except for singing)” and members are encouraged to be involved in “door-to-door evangelism or street witnessing weekly.”
Faust said other churches are planning to send busloads of protesters, and Warden said several Christians will kneel in prayer outside the ball park for a “Pray Day.”
Flores said he is never surprised when a gay event attracts demonstrators, because people have “very strong feelings about sexuality.” But Flores added, “I didn’t think it was going to be this big of a deal.” Although the event has received more flak than gay community coordinators expected, “I don’t think it’s necessarily all negative,” Flores said.
Coverage of the controversy has caused more “middle-of-the-road heterosexual people” to become allies of the gay community, Flores said. “When they realize there are people out there so far to the right, they really want to stand up and support us,” he said. “We’ve actually had heterosexual people call us and buy tickets because they wanted to stand up and speak out.”
Flores said the organizations had originally hoped to sell 1,000 tickets, but have pared back their expectations. As of midweek, about 200 tickets had been sold, he said. Rangers tickets are regularly $12, Flores said, and tickets for Gay Day will also be $12.
But since the Rangers are selling the tickets to the gay organizations for half-price, the gay community groups get to keep $6 from each ticket sold. Other groups selling tickets include the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association, Dallas Diablos rugby team, Pegasus Slowpitch Softball Association, North Texas Women’s Sports Association, Texas Gay Rodeo Association and Series 2004, the committee responsible for organizing next year’s gay softball world series. The game was originally scheduled in the afternoon, but game time was changed to 7:05 p.m. so ESPN can televise playoff-bound Oakland.
According to the Texas Rangers Web site and ESPN listings, the game will be seen on ESPN 2.
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