Christian conservative Mat Staver is
calling upon marriage equality opponents to boycott three
professional sports teams that support such unions.
The San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay
Rays and New England Patriots are among the 379 companies that have
signed on to an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to
strike down state bans on gay marriage.
(Related: New
England Patriots, San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Rays support
marriage equality.)
Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty
Counsel, told OneNewsNow that the teams had fallen under the control
of “radical ideologues who want to literally undermine our
Judeo-Christian values.”
“I think we ought to vote with our
dollars and not support those sports entities, those sports
organizations, or those businesses that literally are hostile to our
faith and to the very foundational values of God's natural created
order of man and woman as the union of a husband and wife in
marriage,” Staver
said. “That's so fundamental. If they can't get that right,
how can they get anything else right and how are they deserving of
any of our respect or our support?”
Staver said it was a few “radical
people who sometimes work their way to the tops of these
organizations who push their radical agenda … in your face.”
“But they are radical ideologues who
want to literally undermine our Judeo-Christian values,” Staver
said. “It's the most serious assault on our family, faith and
freedom that we've faced in American history.”