Repentance comes again

Here's a local event which is becoming national. Talented anti-gay activist and former Clinton White House intern Michael Marcavage is now claiming that "Christians" defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, by making them lose:

A Philadelphia-based Christian group is claiming victory over the Phillies after displaying an anti-gay banner at the team's annual Gay Day game.

Thursday night was the third annual Gay Day at Citizens Bank Park -- and the third time that members of Repent America showed up to protest the event, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Saturday.

Larry Felzer, the Philadelphia attorney who began organizing the annual Gay Day in 2003, told the newspaper he wasn't sure the Phillies were following their own policy by allowing members of RA to display a banner that read: "Homosexuality Is Sin. Christ Can Set You Free."

RA founder Michael Marcavage, one of the men holding that banner Thursday, faulted the Phillies for holding an event condoning homosexuality. He told the newspaper the protest meant the team "had a political agenda shoved in their face."

Michael Stiles, Phillies vice president of operations, said he found the RA message offensive, but he believes the group has a constitutional right to express its opinion at Citizens Bank Park, which is taxpayer-funded.

Repent America's Web site reported on the event with a headline that read: "Phillies Lose, Christians Win.

It's a little hard to follow the logic here, but then, the only thing which seems logical about Marcavage is his ability to get headlines. I've repeatedly predicted he'd go far, and he seems to be doing just that.

Not to be left out of the fun, Atrios is generously supporting an effort to send Marcavage to Iraq. No word from Mikey on whether he's going, but considering the way he talks about President Bush, and the way he sounds in this interview I think it's a safe bet that he's at least as much against the Iraq War as Atrios.

Politics loves strange bedfellows, and this has all the makings of an orgy.

posted by Eric on 08.20.05 at 08:53 PM





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Michael Marcavage and Michael Proutka -- EXTREMELY interesting! They are my enemies on this crucial controversy of homosexuality, i.e., men's men and ladies' women, and therefore of sexuality, of the self, as such. But, as my enemies, they have style, they are most worthy foes, far more worthy than any of my foes on the Left such as Atrios or Kos. They are not shallow, they know what the real issues are, which are primarily spiritual not political. I must strive to emulate their style. I must fight them on their own high ground, opposing their God in the name of my Most High Goddess, the Queen of Heaven.



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