Padres protesters strike out

Just when the straights thought it was safe to enter a baseball game -- the gays took over! Well, not necessarily took over, but some of the paranoid Christian heteros felt so with "Pride Night" last night at Petco Park in San Diego.

AfterElton.com reported last week that July 8th was to be Pride Night at Petco Park, a group event for LGBT families. The Southern Baptist missionaries planned to boycott and called upon the citizens of San Diego to protest the event because "Bringing together homosexuals with baseball and kids is beyond bounds." That sounds like a tag line for a homo-horror flick -- someone call Bill Duke!

Well, the protest was a complete failure with 41,026 out of the 42,685 seats of PETCO Park filled. In addition, only seventy-five protesters joined (I guess the other slew said they just couldn't miss a friendly game of baseball!) and they were met with protesters, protesting them.

Taking advantage of a little press, Pastor J.D. Loveland, development director of Set Free Ministries, dropped a little knowledge: "We’re not anti-gay. We’re anti-anti-Christian." Is that suppose to be a polemic chant, spoken word or a line from a Christian rap album?

According to the Union-Tribune of San Diego, Pride Night at Petco Park went on without a dent from the Southern Baptist missionaries. There were no upsets according to the San Diego police, The Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego sang "The National Anthem" and everyone played a good game of baseball.