Spent Thanksgiving Not giving Not Saying Grace } Conservative Group About Baseball’s Gay Love

How can the Family Research Council be thankful when Major League Baseball included gay non-discrimination in its collective bargaining rules?

By Andrew Belonsky  DeathAndTaxesMag.com

You’re probably wondering to yourself, “How did co-called Christian conservative group Family Research Council show their gratitude this Thanksgiving weekend?” The answer: they didn’t.

Instead they spent their holiday blasting major league baseball for including sexual orientation non-discrimination rules in its collective bargaining agreement.

On Top Magazine reports that baseball this week joined the NFL in updating their collective bargaining agreements, the most recent evidence that professional sports realize LGBT rights have changed the game. They’re evolving with the changing times, and realize that all MLB employees, not just some, deserve discrimination protection.

But to FRC, baseball is simply cowering before the gay agenda and are becoming just as bad as “the most liberal segments of society, like academia.”

“In the larger picture, the homosexual activists are trying to have their ideology become dominant not only in the most liberal segments of society, like academia, but in the most conservative institutions, such as the military, the church, and now in sports,” FRC’s hateful, priggish senior fellow Peter Sprigg said.

The baddie went on, “Liberals attack conservatives for the idea of legislating morality, but this is exactly what’s happening when one of these codes is adopted. It’s saying that anyone who disapproves of homosexual conduct, for whatever reason, is a bigot and we are taking a moral stance against that.”

Wait, let’s back up: baseball is one of “the most conservative institutions?” That’s not necessarily true: the MLB Commissioner Office’s political action committee has given more to Democratic congressional candidates than Republicans: $797,090 to $485,136 since 2002, according to theCenter for Responsive Politics.

Even if baseball were a bastion of right wing conservatism — depending on the region and fan base, some teams may be — it does not belong to conservatives. FRC, Sprigg and other anti-gay activists forget that baseball is all of America’s pastime, not just right-wing fundamentalist bigots’ pastime.