World Cup Pride Match
While the rest of the world is enjoying one of the largest sporting events that brings people together from all over the world, LGBT imperialists in Seattle are planning to turn a World Cup match into a vehicle to promote their disordered ideology. The local organizers have gone so far as to bill the game between Egypt and Iran on June 26 at Lumen Stadium as the “World Cup Pride Match.”
Festivities celebrating “the mother of all sins” will take place around the stadium on game day. The Pride+ Match Impact Council is assisting the local organizers in coordinating the spectacle. They pledge to take advantage of this “once-in-a-lifetime moment to showcase and celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities in Washington.” To this end the council will “validate [LGBT] community-informed priorities,” “curate Pride stories,” provide “economic opportunities for LGBTQIA+-owned enterprises,” and help “shape…cultural programming.”
Fans en route to the match will be subjected to the grotesque scenes of Seattle’s annual “Pride” weekend, which in recent years featured a large contingent of naked men on bicycles joining in a public parade. Closer to the stadium, local organizers will display the winning art work from the Pride Match Design Contest. This artwork will celebrate “the creativity, inclusion, and the vibrant spirit of Seattle’s LGBTQ+ community.”
What could possibly explain why the local organizers would move ahead with these efforts and continue to brand the game as the “World Cup Pride Match?”
Seattle Mayor Kate Wilson, a radical socialist, opined on social media that it is an “incredible honor” to lead the charge for diversity and inclusion. “With matches on Juneteenth and pride, we get to show the world that in Seattle, everyone is welcome.”
Interestingly, the governing bodies for soccer in Egypt and Iran have made it widely known that they do not feel welcome.
The Egyptian Football Association said of the “Pride” festivities that it “completely rejects such activities, which directly contradict the cultural, religious, and social values in the region, especially in Arab and Islamic societies.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian Football Federation described the event as “an unreasonable and illogical move that essentially signals support for a particular group.”
Both have called on FIFA, the global governing body of soccer, to do more to prevent Seattle’s “Pride” celebrations from being foisted upon their teams and fans.
For its part, FIFA has long standing rules designed to ensure that messaging extraneous to soccer is kept to a minimum so the focus can be squarely on the competition. Of particular importance, Section 15(a) of the FIFA Statutes requires the national governing bodies of soccer “to be neutral in matters of politics and religion.” Forcing players and fans to participate in promoting an ideology that runs contrary to their deeply held religious convictions is a blatant violation of this neutrality rule, and FIFA has asked the local organizers to comply with the statute.
However, FIFA’s authority is limited only to the stadium and officially sanctioned “fan zones.” While there appears to be some walking back of “Pride” celebrations inside the stadium, the local organizers, along with other Seattle-based LGBT groups, have promised to do as much as they can as close as they can to the match to celebrate “Pride.” This may not be a technical violation of FIFA’s rule, but it certainly flaunts the spirit of the law.
Even though the teams involved asked for the festivities to be tapered back and FIFA mandated that the local organizers comply with its rule “to be neutral,” the “Pride” celebrations are scheduled to continue and the local organizers persist in calling it the “World Cup Pride Match.” Clearly this is not about sending the message that “everyone is welcome.” No, it is something much more sinister.
The Encyclopedia Britannica defines cultural imperialism as “the imposition by one usually politically or economically dominant community of various aspects of its own culture onto another nondominant community.” The “Pride Match” is a textbook definition of this.
Wealthy elites in Seattle are telling athletes and fans from countries that do not embrace the LGBT agenda that they need to get onboard with it. The cultures of the nations involved in the match need to take a back seat to the machinations of LGBT imperialists in Seattle. While the teams thought they might be there to partake in a heated battle that will most likely determine a spot in the knockout rounds, the organizers are eclipsing their hopes and dreams to put the spotlight on this disordered ideology and forcing them to be complicit in these celebrations.
The “World Cup Pride Match” has nothing to do with diversity or inclusion, and it is certainly not making the traveling teams and fans feel welcome. Rather, it is cultural imperialism domineering over all other aspects of the beautiful game and overshadowing it with radical LGBT ideology.