{"id":275028,"date":"2022-08-26T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275028"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:45:49","slug":"colorado-baseball-team-cancels-pro-life-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/colorado-baseball-team-cancels-pro-life-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado baseball team cancels event sponsored by pro-life groups hours before first pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A family night sponsored by two Colorado pro-life organizations for a minor league baseball team was canceled just hours before the game was scheduled to start, and after the organizations had already spent thousands of dollars and expended extra time increasing ticket sales for the event.<\/p>\n

The Rocky Mountain Vibes plays in the Pioneer League, which is an MLB Partner League. Save the Storks<\/a> and Pikes Peak Citizens for Life<\/a> sponsored a family night at UC Health Park, helping to sell over 3,000 tickets for the game.<\/p>\n

According to Diane Ferraro, CEO of Save the Storks, the Vibes reached out to them<\/em> regarding sponsorship. “So they were very aware of what we do and what we stand for,” she said in an interview with Live Action News. \u201cNormally they\u2019ll have 1,000 people at one of their games, and because we had been helping to promote it, they had over 3,000 tickets sold.”<\/p>\n

Yet Ferraro said she was informed that team owners had been receiving calls from people who said they were canceling their season tickets over the pro-life sponsorships, though Ferraro believes there may be other reasons for the event’s cancellation. \u201cWe are a very pro-life area in Colorado Springs. Focus on the Family is here, Compassion International is here, there are five military bases here… Colorado Springs is very conservative, though the state is blue,\u201d she said. “UC Health owns the stadium and we\u2019ve heard they were a big part of the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an update to their Facebook post, Save the Storks noted that they had been contacted by a UC Health representative “at approximately 4:30pm MST” who “stated that they were not one of the Vibes’ sponsors behind this decision. The information regarding the ‘main sponsor’s request and other sponsors’ was provided to us directly by the Vibes organization, which we believed to be a credible resource as they have been our main point of contact.” Save the Storks added, “We ask that you email jhathaway@vibesbaseball.com or visit the Vibes website to request a full refund. Please show your support of Save the Storks and Pikes Peak Citizens for Life by boycotting tonight’s game.”<\/p>\n