Baseball Strikes Out in Reacting to Guillen's Comment, Says Family Activist
by Jim Brown
June 28, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A pro-family activist in Illinois is criticizing Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig over his decision to require the manager of the Chicago White Sox to undergo "sensitivity training."
White Sox skipper Ozzie Guillen was recently fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball (MLB) and ordered to attend sensitivity training for using the word "fag" to refer to Chicago Sun Times columnist Jay Mariotti. Selig said "the use of slurs embarrasses the individual, the club, and the game." Guillen told the Chicago Tribune this week that he intends to complete the training before the All-Star Game on July 11.
Pete LaBarbera, who heads the Illinois Family Institute, believes MLB went overboard.
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"The fact that they're going to require this man to undergo sensitivity training -- pro-homosexual training, which will likely violate his moral and his religious beliefs -- is just astonishing," exclaims LaBarbera. "We're coming to the point in America now where people of faith can have their rights and their beliefs trampled over in the name of supporting the gay agenda."The family advocate says the White Sox manager has run into the "liberal thought police."
"I think it's astonishing to see the media in Chicago and maybe across the country bending so easily to this idea of when you say this word, which I don't say -- I don't say the word f-a-g -- but the idea that this is a slur analogous to racism is just ridiculous," says LaBarbera. "The fact is that Ozzie Guillen said something he shouldn't have said," he acknowledges, "but should he be going through re-education and having his religious beliefs trampled over in support of the homosexual agenda because he said this remark? No way."
According to LaBarbera, "we have to guard and protect our freedoms now more than ever in this country because gay activists are out to silence us."
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
