Lakers Shut Down Instagram Comments After Promoting Pride Night With New Jersey Reveal, Gets Roasted on Twitter
The Los Angeles Lakers turned off the comments on a recent Instagram post promoting an upcoming pride night.
The Lakers revealed they would be hosting their annual pride night on October 12th and will be giving away pride-themed jerseys on October 12th.
On Instagram they wrote, “Join us on Oct. 12 for our annual Lakers Pride Night! All fans in attendance will receive our first-ever Lakers Pride Jersey. Live your Truth. Be the Future.”
As you can see below there are no comments on the post because they turned them off.
For comparison the organization also posted photos of the team’s first day in training camp and there are plenty of comments, many of them pointing out they turned the comments off on the pride night post and expressing their displeasure at the pride jersey.
On Twitter numerous people expressed their dissatisfaction with a post announcing the pride night and the jersey.
One user questioned, “When is your Christian or catholic night? Or is living that truth taboo?”
Another told the Lakers, “Delete this.”
One person questioned, “Is the is the Lakers telling us they won’t be around in June?”
Still another wrote, “Live Gods truth not yours.”
In a press release the Lakers also the announced the pride night will “celebrate diversity, equity, inclusion and unity by hosting members and supporters from the LGBTQ+ community.”
They went on to detail that the organization “will also treat fans to special in-game entertainment.” The Lakers will also recognize numerous organizations including LAMBDA Basketball, Rainbow Labs, and the Sports Equality Foundation.
YouTuber John Matrixx of Black and White Sports on YouTube asserted, “The Lakers, they don’t truly believe in this stuff. It’s a virtue signal. Because they’re doing this and they know that the fans are rejecting this.”
He also called into question what the special in-game entertainment will be saying, “Now something is very, very concerning here, folks. Right here, ‘The Pride Night celebration will also treat fans to special in-game entertainment.’ That’s scary, folks.”
Matrixx continued, “Because when we seen where these woke schools out there, strip clubs, having drag queen events for children. Now this is concerning, folks. Will there actually be something like this at an NBA game? It would not surprise me. I mean, for one thing, this is in the ultra liberal People’s Republic of California in the LA area.”
He then noted, “Boy, I’m pretty sure if word gets out that they’re going to be having a drag show on this night for children, there could be a lot of backlash.”
A pride night is reprehensible. The Roman Catholic Church teaches, “Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained.
It continues, “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.”
“The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible,” it goes on. “This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity.”
“Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition,” it instructs.
The Catechism concludes, “Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”
A pride night celebrating acts of grave depravity should not take place. It is an offense to God.
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