I still can't believe that it's Pride Month — Month. An entire month to celebrate sexual orientation. Everyone gets in on it: corporations, the U.S. armed services, everyone. It's like the "Seinfeld" episode with "Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?" Which organizations aren't going to be bullied into doing something to celebrate the LGBTQ community?
Last Pride Month, we told you about the Los Angeles Dodgers deciding to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whose claim to fame is dressing as nuns in drag and mocking Christianity in perverse ways, on Pride Night at the stadium. They had been disinvited after a huge backlash but were then reinvited. Thousands of Catholics protested outside the stadium. NBC News said the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were "dedicated to community service."
This year we're getting news that one Major League Baseball team is breaking from the mold and not holding a Pride Night.
The Texas Rangers are frustrating LGBTQ+ advocates as the only MLB team without a Pride Night https://t.co/9M0gV3e37O
— KSAT 12 (@ksatnews) June 24, 2024
KSAT says the Rangers are "frustrating" LGBTQ advocates:
As Pride Month — the June celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights — comes and goes again without the Rangers participating, [Rafael] McDonnell tried to explain the connection between his group and the team he has loved and watched for the better part of 50 years.
“It’s a complicated relationship,” McDonnell said. “As someone who grew up watching the Rangers, as someone who has gone to games since the 1970s, some of my biggest and best memories are going to games at the old Arlington Stadium with my late grandfather and listening to games on the radio in his backyard.
“It pains me that this remains an issue (after) all these years.”
Painful enough, McDonnell said, that he considered not attending the parade with his boyfriend when the Rangers celebrated their first World Series championship last fall. Ultimately, he decided to go.
It pains Rafael McDonnell, communications and advocacy manager for the Resource Center. Can that stand?
This is great news.
— Omar at TX (@omarslopezarce) June 24, 2024
They should have events for their fans, not for political activists.
Time to take the kids to a Rangers game.
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) June 24, 2024
Might have just become a Rangers fan.
— Slaughter (@slaughterhaus1) June 24, 2024
Gotta tell you, as an LGBT person myself, this frustrates me not one bit.
— Will, the Teruo Nakamura of Burgum stans (@spudhawg) June 24, 2024
If they don’t wanna do it, fine. It shouldn’t be coerced.
This reminds me of the Hockey Diversity Alliance suggesting the National Hockey League the blue stripe on the ice to black to represent Black Lives Matter, after Jacob Blake, who was armed with a knife, was shot by police. Of course, the NHL too has had its problems with players not wanting to wear pride jerseys.
So much for “diversity.” The revolutionaries can’t tolerate even one outlier not succumbing to their pressure or adopting the dogma.
— JD Breen (@realjdbreen) June 24, 2024
It's a 24/7 Maoist show trial.
— Mixy Pisa (@MixyPisa) June 24, 2024
Tell the whiners to identify as non-frustrated.
— AmpuTe𝕏an (@AmpuTexan) June 24, 2024
No team in existence, amateur or pro, needs a night to celebrate someone's sexual preference.
— Kildzr (@kildzr) June 24, 2024
The only MLB not to take a knee...geez.
— Thaddeus Prime - LVL🆙 (@thaddeusPrime) June 24, 2024
I might be a @astros fan, but these Rangers are giving me so real Texas vibes, that reminds me of the good ole days.
Why do these advocates need a MLB team to validate them? Perhaps you could ask them that
— The Other Delaware Guy (@jamiemoulthrop) June 24, 2024
Why has every other team bent the knee and scheduled a Pride Night?
I still don't understand how veterans get one day, the war dead get one day, but the LGBTQ community gets an entire month. I hope debate prep isn't keeping Joe Biden from making plans for this year's pride blowout at the White House.
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