To say that anti-gay groups are not happy about the fact that the New England Patriots, the Tampa Bay Rays, and the San Francisco Giants were parties to a brief filed with the Supreme Court in favor of marriage equality would be something of an understatement.
Last week, the Family Research Council’s Craig James said that such support for gay marriage is satanic, and now Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver is calling upon anti-gay Christians to boycott teams that support marriage equality on the grounds that they are alienating their fan base and have fallen under the control of “radical ideologues who want to literally undermine our Judeo-Christian values”:
“I think we ought to vote with our dollars and not support those sports entities, those sports organizations, or those businesses that literally are hostile to our faith and to the very foundational values of God’s natural created order of man and woman as the union of a husband and wife in marriage,” Staver declares. “That’s so fundamental. If they can’t get that right, how can they get anything else right and how are they deserving of any of our respect or our support?”
Staver says that most companies find it is the wrong decision to get involved in the activist side of homosexuality because it alienates a large customer base.
“What we see, however, is a few radical people who sometimes work their way to the tops of these organizations who push their radical agenda,” Staver explains. “They simply can’t help themselves. They want to push their agenda and they want to push it in your face.”
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He contends that never before has the United States seen such an outright war on the traditional values that have formed the backbone of society since the nation’s founding.
“But they are radical ideologues who want to literally undermine our Judeo-Christian values,” Staver argues. “It’s the most serious assault on our family, faith and freedom that we’ve faced in American history.”
