Blowhard Marcavage goes after Phillies

Recently, the Atlanta Braves courted Daddy Dobson's Focus on the Anus, letting the org co-sponsor its' Christian 'Faith Day' and pass out anti-gay literature. That relationship lasted for only one game before some heat was turned on the baseball organization, and it cut Daddy loose.

In contrast, the Philadelphia Phillies actively court the gay market, holding "Gay Community Night." This raised the hackles of the local fundie, Repent America's director Michael Marcavage, who goes ape in the AFA's "news" rag, AgapePress.

A Christian ministry says the Philadelphia Phillies organization is helping to advance the homosexual agenda while discriminating against those who express biblical views on homosexuality.

For the last four years, the Major League Baseball franchise in the City of Brotherly Love has been sponsoring "Gay Community Night" at the ballpark. In 2003 and 2004, the organization kicked out members of the Philadelphia-based Christian group Repent America for displaying a banner that read, "Homosexuality is sin, Christ can set you free."


...According to Repent America director Michael Marcavage, after pressure from homosexual activists last year, the Phillies changed their banner policy. According to the revised guidelines, the ballpark now prohibits all banners and signs that "bear a message that contains derogatory matter relating to ... sexual orientation," and also took steps to bar Repent America representatives from entering the ballpark.

"In fact," Marcavage notes, "the Phillies officials even went to the extreme of searching their databases for ticket purchases associated with Repent America to ensure that the access to us would be denied." In other words, he asserts, the Phillies organization has now declared that the biblical message of freedom from homosexuality through Jesus Christ is "derogatory," and those who conveyed that message in the past have apparently been declared unwelcome...Marcavage says he finds it heartbreaking that the Phillies franchise continues to expose children to "this perverse lifestyle" in what ought to be a family-friendly environment.

Also:
* Marcavage's Philly fundie freakshow (bleating about being harassed by a "lawless mob" of homosexuals at Philadelphia's Pride parade)