{"id":3979,"date":"2018-06-11T04:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2018-06-11T04:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:18:39","slug":"crossfit-infiltrates-gay-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/06\/11\/crossfit-infiltrates-gay-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"CrossFit Infiltrates Gay Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We move now to a <em>CrossFit <\/em>gym in Indianapolis.&nbsp; An LGBT member decided to organize a <em>Pride Workout <\/em>at <strong><em>CrossFit Infiltrate <\/em><\/strong>(a nefarious name for a gym if ever there was one).&nbsp; At the last minute, the event was cancelled by the management\u2026but allegedly not because of the LGBT angle.&nbsp; What stuck in the craw of the management was the word \u201cpride\u201d.&nbsp; Director <strong>Brandon Lowe <\/strong>said, \u201cWe believe that true health forever can only be found within humility, not pride.&nbsp; Humility in seeing oneself as they truly are, and as God truly defines them to be.\u201d&nbsp; I\u2019ve been around many hot men in gyms, and what I\u2019ve never run into is a high degree of humility.&nbsp; But perhaps I\u2019m going to the wrong gyms \u2013 are they all clothing optional?<\/p>\n<p>Then a corporate CrossFit employee jumped into the fray.&nbsp; <strong>Russell Berger <\/strong><em>Tweeted <\/em>how he supported Infiltrate\u2019s message.&nbsp; \u201cThank you #CrossFitInfiltrate for standing by their convictions and refusing to host an @indypride workout.&nbsp; The intolerance of the LGBTQ ideology towards any alternative views is mind-blowing.\u201d&nbsp; Do note that an alleged straight guy is the first to bring up anything having to do with blowing.&nbsp; At 2:02PM, CrossFit announced, \u201cEffective immediately, Russell Berger has been placed on unpaid leave while management completes a thorough review.\u201d&nbsp; That thorough review was done by 4:45PM with the following Tweet: \u201cThe statements made today by Russell Berger do not reflect the view of CrossFit Inc.&nbsp; For this reason, his employment with CrossFit has been terminated.\u201d&nbsp; The next day, a sign was posted on the front door.&nbsp; \u201cCrossFit Infiltrate has determined that it will no longer operate business at this location.&nbsp; We thank you for your patronage and support.\u201d&nbsp; How proud are you now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We move now to a CrossFit gym in Indianapolis.&nbsp; An LGBT member decided to organize a Pride Workout at CrossFit Infiltrate (a nefarious name for a gym if ever there was one).&nbsp; At the last minute, the event was cancelled by the management\u2026but allegedly not because of the LGBT angle.&nbsp; What stuck in the craw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}