Former VP Mike Pence accuses the MLB of "sexualizing children" by celebrating Pride Night
Ferguson97:
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An Open Letter to Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers
Dear Commissioner Manfred,
For almost two hundred years, Americans have united around the great game of baseball. And for a very long time that was true. Since 1909, congressional Democrats and Republicans could put aside their bitter divisions and compete together in the friendliest of rivalries. During the 2001 World Series, President George W. Bush rekindled the American spirit by throwing out the first pitch of game three in Yankee Stadium, just a month after one of our country’s darkest days.
But baseball’s long track record has come into question in recent years. In 2021, when my friend and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a law to protect election integrity in his state, you chose to relocate the All-Star Game from Atlanta, citing concerns about “voter suppression” (a claim put to shame by the actual impact of the law, which produced historic voter turnout, including among African Americans). In doing so, you not only undermined the game’s apolitical reputation, but you robbed the legacy of one of baseball’s all-time greats, Hank Aaron. Atlanta hosted its first All-Star Game almost 50 years beforehand, a game in which “Hammerin’ Hank” played and helped bring about an incredible victory. The 2021 game would have been a beautiful opportunity to honor the Atlanta Braves legend, who had died just months before.
Now in 2023, Major League Baseball is standing by as our national pastime is desecrated by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an anti-Catholic hate group with a history of religious bigotry. For reasons completely beyond understanding, the Los Angeles Dodgers decided to give an award to the “Sisters,” giving a public platform and spotlight for their indecency that risks sexualizing young children. For a moment, it looked like the Dodgers might reverse course, but sanity has not prevailed in Los Angeles. As Bishop Robert Barron has made clear, this kind of religious intolerance and public indecency would never be celebrated if it were targeted against another religious group like Jews or Muslims.
Baseball once stood for American greatness, but when the MLB openly invites attacks on Christian faith, sexualizes children with graphic public displays, and undermines the family-friendly environment that baseball has long stood for, it is clear that those days are fading fast.
While baseball has had a bad streak over the past few years, that does not mean the book is closed on the MLB. “Pride Night,” when the Dodgers will recognize the “Sisters,” is not until June 16. It is still not too late to reverse course and recover the reputation of American baseball.
Baseball has long been cherished as America’s pastime, transcending political, social, and cultural boundaries. I firmly believe that baseball still has the power to bring people together and foster a sense of American unity centered around our civic virtues. If you act quickly, I am hopeful that the league can once again become a source of inspiration for millions of fans across these United States.
A longtime baseball fan and concerned fellow citizen,
Vice President Mike Pence
Conservatives are deranged lunatics.
Suburbia:
Baseball is seen by white conservatives as the last sport they have, Americans really don't care for hockey, Kaepernick ruined the other last conservative-leaning sport, and the NBA is liberal-ish.
A lot of baseball athletes are homophobes (John Rocker, Keith Hernandez, Blake Triechen, Brandon Nimmo, etc.)
Alben Barkley:
Mike Pence would know all about "anti-Catholic hate groups" considering he left the Church to become an evangelical.
That said, I am almost sympathetic to his argument. Would American liberals really tolerate a group that made fun of Imams or Rabbis by dressing up as them and flagrantly disrespecting everything they believe, only to be awarded by a major national organization like the MLB? I doubt it, to say the least.
I spent the winter writing songs about getting better:
Quote from: Alben Barkley on June 03, 2023, 09:16:12 PM
Mike Pence would know all about "anti-Catholic hate groups" considering he left the Church to become an evangelical.
That's like a quarter of the people at my former church...who of course are all way more progressive than Pence. For all of the many obvious flaws with Pence, this is not one of them.
Alben Barkley:
Quote from: These knuckles break before they bleed on June 03, 2023, 09:22:30 PM
Quote from: Alben Barkley on June 03, 2023, 09:16:12 PM
Mike Pence would know all about "anti-Catholic hate groups" considering he left the Church to become an evangelical.
That's like a quarter of the people at my former church...who of course are all way more progressive than Pence. For all of the many obvious flaws with Pence, this is not one of them.
No offense BRTD, but you don't really count. Your experience is highly abnormal for Christians in the US today, and simply cannot be extrapolated to most. Pence left the RCC because he felt it wasn't conservative ENOUGH for him. This simply can't be compared to those who left to join more liberal protestant groups/denominations.
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