Texas RIM Rangers?
Posted on 09/10/2003 9:20:23 PM PDT by Coleus
I must have missed something. What is this about? Is some group pushing for Gay Day at the Ball Park in Arlington?Yeah ! And in fact, the Ballpark in Arlington is promoting it apparently ...
Sign the petition (if you wish) linked in my ping there and in the article itself ...
No, it isn't. Please see post #15 -- this has been rehashed on several local conservative radio shows over the past few weeks. There is no "Gay Day" at a Texas Rangers game." Apparently a group of gays want to go, based upon a column in the Dallas Voice (a local gay magazine), which is their perfect right. It's no different than a bus filled with employees from LargeCo Corp. or the local Baptist church going to the game. The Texas Rangers organization has nothing to do with the supposed "Gay Day" and is not checking people's sexual orientation when they sell tickets.IMHO, protesting would be a very unwise thing. Let them go to the game. After all, there are probably just as many gays at every Texas Rangers game.
Note that this does not make me pro-gay. It's a lifestyle that I find abhorrent. I worked in Oak Lawn for 6 years and it's a horrible way of life that very few of them want to be in. Most are the victims of either (1) childhood molestation (ever wonder why so many gays are good-looking men? -- it's because they were good-looking children); or (2) a real or perceived absence from their father during childhood. Protesting a hundred or so of them going to a baseball game is going to backfire publicity-wise and is not going to get them to change their ways.
Somebody needs to tell Rick that the only thing worse than a homo is a liar.
Also see this transcript between local Christian radio host, Scott Wilder and Rick Warden and another between Scott and Rangers Manager Mike Cramer. Unfortunately, Warden comes out looking like a fool. He's misrepresenting the situation which is not a thing that a Christian should do.
We should drop the petition and drop the protests.
You can go here to the promotions page to see that the Texas Rangers are not promoting a "Gay Day."As for the press release, there is no reason for the Texas Rangers to issue one any more than they would issue a press release endorsing or not endorsing a group of Boy Scouts or company employees going to the game. Please read Scott Wilder's interview with Rick Warden and with Mike Cramer that I posted earlier. Cramer, who is president and CEO of the Rangers, said on air regarding the supposed "Gay Day":
"No. Never has been and nothing is scheduled. There’s nothing sponsored, endorsed or supported by the Rangers. ... [T]heir ticket purchase by this group is probably in its simplest form. There’s no strings, no perks. It’s a purchase of group tickets that day. ... This is a non-issue to us. ... I’m just disappointed that Mr. Warden and these other folks, who have sent emails without calling us, without asking, without writing, have simply assumed that we’re having this so-called Gay Day at the ball park. Mr. Warden knows that’s not true. He said that to you just a few minutes ago on the phone. But what I thought was interesting, as he was signing off, he asked you to please go to gayday.com and sign the petition. Well, there shouldn’t be a protestgayday.com because there is no Gay Day at the Ball Park."This is a non-issue and no one here should give Rick Warden the time of day because he is misrepresenting the situation. He's simply lying and that's not something a Christian should do in a normal situation, no matter how noble the ends.
Texas RIM Rangers?
And various other entertaining uses of base ball bats will be offered to the young sports fans.
And who needs a mitt to catch a ball? See the provocitive methods of ball catching using various bodily orifices!
Cum one, cum all, and join the fun at GayDay.
(Antibiotics not included in this sports package. Please remember to pack your own.)
And as a special treat...the players will adjust each other's cups...
Based on the documentation you posted, I agree. Thanks for the information.
In another era your statement would be closer to the truth than in today's world. However, the Clinton Administration taught us all about the floating the trial balloon method for getting ones message out without having it to come back to bite you in the backside (no pun intended) or stink up your neck of the woods should it prove to be a dud and tank like a lead balloon. Clinton was so good that.
By not admitting to nor denying of a rumor the organization basically gets a free ride in the press and in the public arena of ideas. By using cut-outs to deliver your message you can then take credit if the message goes over or you can deny the message as not being yours nor true since "we didn't tell you about it ourselves". Informed people of today aren't that stupid or dense anymore after the Bill Clinton era.
So, until I see a written repudiation in a major publication then I for one will take the position that the item in question was probably indeed a product of someone connected with the Texas Rangers. You know, if there was a rumor circulating that the owner of the Rangers team was considering selling the team to a Red Chinese communist and it wasn't true I rather suspect that we'd hear all kinds of denials in every public venue they could get to listen to them denying the rumors.
But you know, you could be entirely right but I'll remain highly skeptical until proven wrong as I suspect others will do. Good try though but no cigar.
Did you read my links? You have been proven wrong.Did you see "Gay Day" promoted on the Texas Rangers website? No.
Did you read Rangers' CEO Mike Cramer's comments and Rick Warden's comments on a top-rated radio show here in Dallas? Rick Warden says that "Texas Rangers to Hold Gay Day." What part of that is true? None of it.
Rick Warden goes on in the interview to say that "the Texas Rangers have made it very clear from the beginning that they are not holding a Gay Day." He is engaging in deception under the guise of Christianity. Why do you want to listen to him?
I am entirely right and you need to believe the truth, not a lie -- no matter how supposedly good the motives are for telling that lie.
Well, it's best to boycott anything with a GayDay, no matter what. Gays have no respect for family values. Might better keep your kids safe at home.
In other words, just another day at the office for the on-field talent.
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