Gays, San Diego Padres, and the Lord

Religious groups in San Diego have their panties in a bunch, as the Padres hosted an LGBT day at PETCO Park. It was also a day that free hats were being given to children under 14 years of age. Some of their outright stupid, idiotic remarks include the following, as always, with comments from My Small Gay World:

According to the California Catholic Daily, Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center commented, “In my opinion, this confluence of events is not a mistake. The Padres are playing the part of the Pied Pieper leading unsuspecting children into accepting the homosexual lifestyle as normal. Children should not be subjected to the ‘in-your-face’ antics of these radical groups. The Thomas More Law Center wants unsuspecting parents that hope to get their children a free hat and maybe allow their children to run the bases at PETCO to know that they are also walking into a modern day scene of Sodom and Gomorrah.”
What a gay-hating schmuck. Again, right-wing, conservative religious folk erroneously connect gays to "converting" children to being gay. Further, Sodom and Gomorrah was a story in the Bible not about homosexuality, but intolerance and inhospitality, a biblical message Richard Thomson needs to learn.

Thomas More's director of communications, Brian Rooney, stated, “These so-called ‘gay pride’ events are often debauched affairs of gross and inappropriate displays of public affection.
Right, Brian, baby, it's okay for two straights to walk hand-in-hand in public, but God forbid two loving, partnered gays should do the same. Maybe you need to join the 21st, century, and realize times and attitudes change, or, as Thomas More himself once said, "To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life."

J.D. Loveland, development director of Set Free Ministries, an El Cajon-based Christian organization had this to say, as reported by signonsandiego.com, "Homosexuality is a sin, and promoting it with a Pride Night when thousands of kids are also going to be (at the ballpark) is wrong. So we took a moral stand. We're not anti-gay. We're anti-anti-Christian.” What a twit! As we've warned readers before, the minute you hear "we're not anti-gay," you can bet your pink, bottom dollar that they are. What bothers us the most is that she first says homosexuality is a sin, and then suggests that our very existence is anti-Christian (why else would she feel the need to qualify herself as "anti-anti-Christian?). Right, she's not a gay-hater at all!

Although these religious nuts tried to have a boycott, even standing at the gates warning people as they went in about the "evils" that lurked inside, official attendance for the game was 41,026, just short of a capacity crowd for the 42,685-seat ballpark.

(Of course, that hottie you see above is none other than gay former San Diego Padres player Billy Bean. Click Here for more on Bean's wonderful story.)