The steam has begun to go out of that effort. But, alas, some sports teams persist, pledging their support and calling for celebrating.
Recently, my favorite Major League Baseball team and my favorite National Football League team posted their support on social media.
I don’t really believe for a minute that either team really cares about the issue or the people with those conditions. I suspect a majority of their fans also don’t care. What teams care about is public relations and avoiding being targeted by a small group of loud-mothered, confrontational activists and their supporters.
What they really care about is money.
Never mind that they are helping to support and to promote these disordered conditions, and to help the confused, the lost, and the young astray.
Alas, like sheep, fans are so caught up in supporting their teams they keep quiet. By their silence they are complicit.
This is also an instance in which a word that might be positive is twisted by the propagandists who seek to normalize what is wrong or abnormal. Look what’s happened to words like “choice” or “gay.”
So here are a few quotations that help to restore order.
“It was pride that changed angels into devils.…” - St. Augustine
“Pride makes us artificial.…” - Thomas Merton
“Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.” - Daniel Defoe
“Where pride begins, love ceases.” - Johan Kasper Lavater
“With pride, there are many curses.” - Ezra Taft Benson
“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.” - Benjamin Franklin
“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
“Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.” - William Hazlitt
“Pride and excess bring disaster for man.” - Xunzi
“When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.” - King Louis XI of France
“Pride goes before destruction.” - Aesop
“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.” - Andrew Murray
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” - Sophocles
Maybe the fans need to consider what “pride” really means, and maybe they need to let their teams know they are just interested in watching and enjoying a game, and not in having propaganda shoved down their throats.
As for me, I notified the Mets and the Bills about my displeasure with them bringing woke nonsense into their marketing.
And maybe I’ll find better things to do with my time than watching or going to their games. Write. Practice guitar and sing. Take a walk with my wife. Read a book.
Pax et bonum
