A group of Christian baseball players demonstrated courage in the face of the LGBT mob. So, naturally, the “tolerant” and “inclusive” left is attacking them for it.
The incident came about on Friday, when the San Francisco Giants hosted their “pride night” commemorating the “LGBT community.” The night’s antics included same-sex couples renewing their vows on the field “in the presence of a drag queen,” the national anthem being sung “by an LGBTQ-affirming nondenominational church,” and players donning rainbow-colored hats, according to Fox News.
Rather than bow before the left’s pagan religion, Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, Ryan Walker, and Sam Hentges took a different approach.
Roupp, Brubaker, and Walker inscribed variations of Genesis 9:12-16 on their LGBT-themed hats, a reference to the Bible verses in which God uses a rainbow to signify his covenant that He would never again destroy mankind by flooding the earth. Meanwhile, Hentges declined to wear a rainbow-colored hat altogether.
When pressed on the matter following the team’s loss to the Chicago Cubs, Roupp explained the meaning behind the verses and that “it’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that He makes to us.” He furthermore stood behind his Christian faith, his decision to write the verses on his hat, and encouraged those offended by his choice to “read the Bible.”
“It’s just something I believe in and I stand firm in that. Thankfully we live in a country where we have the freedom to believe what we want,” Roupp said. “There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for, and what I stand in. I believe in God.”
Hentges similarly defended his decision to forgo the team’s “pride” commemoration, saying “There wasn’t any hatred behind it” and “It’s just something that I feel like I was forced to support when I don’t morally support it.”
Leftist media shills wasted no time in making it known that their “inclusion” label doesn’t apply to faithful Christians.
Grant Brisbee, a writer for the New York Times’ sports division (“The Athletic”), penned an unhinged screed titled, “Giants pitchers’ Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they’ve missed the point.” As if he were mimicking the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets accosted for not wearing “the ribbon,” the grown manchild lectured the Giants players by claiming their actions represented a “tone-deaf response to what should have been a moment for community unity.”
“They made the night about ‘us versus them.’ That’s the only thing they could see,” whined Brisbee, who ended his temper tantrum with leftists’ mindless “Do better” remark.
Cyd Zeigler, the co-founder of the LGBT sports outlet Outsports, authored a similarly embarrassing article. In seemingly accusing athletes who don’t support “pride night” nonsense as “homophobic,” he characterized the Giants players’ Bible verse inscriptions as “an attack on the LGBTQ community and Pride.”
“[T]hese three players weaponized that verse — choosing the Giants Pride Night specifically — in an attempt to steal away the only symbol the LGBTQ community has to unite us: the rainbow,” Zeigler wrote. “[T]hese three players on the Giants — in San Francisco — are so full of hate for the LGBTQ community that they can’t just decline to wear the Pride cap, let the team welcome the LGBTQ community to the ballpark, and go about their day.”
Catch that? According to Zeigler, it’s not LGBT activists who hijacked the symbol of God’s covenant to promote sinful behavior that directly defies His teachings. It’s those pesky Christians who are sabotaging the occasion by simply expressing their faith.
Brisbee, Zeigler, and their ilk could’ve saved everyone a lot of time by cutting the word games and admitting what most leftists believe. That is, that Christians shouldn’t be allowed to express their faith or live it out in the public square.
Christianity is the antidote to the poisonous pagan religion many leftists subscribe to. And it’s because of that fact that they must vilify and destroy it at all costs.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
