Pittsburgh Pirates celebrate LGBT Pride … on Kids’ Day
It seems you can’t even take your kid to a ballgame these days without encountering the ol’ red-orange-yellow-green-blue-and-purple. The Pride flag will take the place of Old Glory in Pittsburgh’s PNC Park on July 2 when the Pirates’ first-ever Gay Pride Day falls on the weekly Kids’ Day. Each ticket to the Major League Baseball game will include a Pirates Pride Day cap, complete with rainbow-hued “P”. Mental health awareness advocate Richard Jarzynka has begun a campaign on Facebook to protest the conflation of the two events. “I have been a Pittsburgh Pirate fan for 50 seasons,” he declared online. That ended the day he found out about the Pirates “Pride” celebration. “As a Christian, I cannot support an organization which actively promotes a behavior which the Word of God repeatedly and unequivocally declares to be a sin,” Jarzynka wrote. His disappointment stems not only from his long years of fandom but from attending the Pirates’ Faith Night. “...