Remember when sports used to be something that unified people of all backgrounds?
Campus Reform reports:
Stanford band mocks Christians during halftime showAt Saturday’s Brigham Young University (BYU) and Stanford University’s (Stanford) football game in California, Stanford’s band mocked BYU students’ Christain faith during its halftime show performance.The halftime skit was called “gay chicken,” as reported by Jackson Payne, of the Daily Universe, the official BYU newspaper.Featuring a mock wedding ceremony of two women, the skit mocked the words of the marriage ceremony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which marries a man and woman “for time and all eternity.”The staged wedding concluded with the mock marriage officiant quoting Genesis 1:28, telling the women to “be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.”The band put the skit on despite the fact that members of its own football team are members of the Church.Tanner McKee, Stanford’s quarterback, and other players including Levani Damuni and Spencer Jorgensen have served religious missions for the Church.Damuni was reported as saying, “I’m assuming it was the Stanford band. They’re a militia of students who don’t represent what Stanford is about. I love Stanford.”A BYU student at the game, Lauren Palmer, when contacted by Campus Reform, corroborated the details of the skit saying, “They put on a ceremony and then kissed the bride(s). As they did so, one woman took the microphone and said something along the lines of, if you think I’m gay, well I am.”
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