(AgapePress) - A Pennsylvania pro-family activist is accusing the Philadelphia Phillies baseball organization of intolerance and hypocrisy.

While their players on the field concentrate on catching the Atlanta Braves, the Philadelphia Phillies' front office is catching flak for escorting a small group of Christians from the stadium long before the outcome on the field was determined. At their "Gay Community Day" at Veterans Stadium last week, Phillies executives ordered four Christians to take down a banner encouraging homosexuals to seek deliverance through Jesus Christ. The Christians were also booted from the stadium.

Diane Gramley, AFA ofPennsylvania

Diane Gramley with the American Family Association of Pennsylvania says the Phillies organization is accepting of the homosexual lifestyle -- but not those who oppose it.

"They will not tolerate the message that Christians have, that there's hope through Jesus Christ for people who are caught up in this lifestyle," she says.

The activist says the Phillies organization is tolerant "to a point" -- but that when Christians cross that point and are "honest about the sin that these people are caught up in," Phillies' management considers that intolerant.

By holding the event at Veterans Stadium, Gramley says the ball club's executives chose to ignore the concerns of the traditional family, which is the backbone of their business.

"Again, they were just trying to take this group of gays and make them appear as just another community group. That [is not] the message that the Phillies need to be sending to families or to anyone -- gay is not okay, but that's the message the Phillies tried to send by allowing this to take place."

Gramley says the baseball organization is merely seeking to help validate a dangerous lifestyle. She adds that the organization is hypocritical for boasting of its long-time relationship with the Boy Scouts, while at the same time catering to homosexual activists who convinced the United Way to deny the Scouts $400,000 in funding.

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