By now, even non-sports fans have heard about the kerfuffle roiling the cultural waters. Ever since the politically powerful homosexual “community” found a friend in the sexually profligate Bill Clinton, June has been designated “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” Then President Obama, who at 21 wrote to his girlfriend at the time, “You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination,” added trannies to the shameful month-long propaganda event.
So, on to the kerfuffle.
Last Friday, June 12, San Francisco Giants’ management gave all players caps emblazoned with a purloined rainbow emblem to wear during the “pride” night game against the Chicago Cubs. Three players, Landen Roupp, J.T. Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wrote “Genesis 9:12-16” next to the purloined rainbow emblem. And a fourth player wore the team’s standard apolitical cap rather than the one with the controversial social, political, and anti-religious message.
Management provided players with caps emblazoned with the purloined rainbow symbol but did not require players to wear them. The one player who wore the standard apolitical cap, Sam Hentges, was not disciplined or chastised.
The three players who modified their caps were chastised for violating a team rule that prohibits players from “writing, attaching, affixing, embroidering, or … otherwise displaying messages” on their apparel.
Management has made clear that it was not the content of their message—that is, posting a Bible citation—that got the players in hot water. It was their violation of a team rule that is consistently enforced.
As long as the players are willing to suffer the consequences—in this case, just a warning—I and many Americans approve of their civil disobedience. Many of us more than approve. Many are deeply thankful for their wisdom, discernment, and especially courage. Many Americans long for role models who inspire people of all ages to take stands for truth even when taking such stands is not, as leftists are fond of saying, “safe.”
Online, members of the San Francisco’s large “LGBTQ” community are claiming to be “hurt.” They’re liars. The “LGBTQ” community pretends to be hurt as a tactic to coerce others into groveling before the purloined rainbow flag and the corruption it represents.
Historically leftists, including homosexuals, and their sycophants have also pretended to be deeply offended by what they call “cultural appropriation,” and so their silence about the cultural appropriation of the rainbow is curious.
Sodomite Cyd Zeigler, former writer for Playboy, MSNBC, and CNN, and co-founder of the homosexual sports site Outsports said this about the players who added the Bible citation to their cape:
They defaced the Pride rainbow by telling the LGBTQ community that they don’t own the rainbow—God owns the rainbow.
No joke, he actually said that.
To the reprobate mind, speaking the truth about the provenance of the rainbow constitutes an offense. To the mind darkened by bondage to sin, truth and goodness look like sin and defacement.
The rainbow does not belong to the “LGBTQ” community. It was a symbol of a promise God gave to man millennia before Cyd Zeigler or “pride” month existed. It is homosexuals who have defaced the rainbow symbol and every public space they adorn with it.
(As an aside, Zeigler announced in 2023 that he was registering as a Republican for the first time in twenty years. With friends like Zeigler, Republicans don’t need enemies.)
Ironies abound. Homosexual reprobates and their sycophants who pretend to be deeply offended by the protest of four courageous MLB players are the same people who celebrated multiple protests by scores of athletes who have taken “a knee” to express their hatred of America and adulation for recidivist criminal George Floyd.
On June 11, 1999, Bill Clinton foisted this ideologically driven slop of an event on all Americans, proclaiming from his high horse,
I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do thereby proclaim June 1999 as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. I encourage all Americans to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that celebrate our diversity.
Once upon a time, people—even ignorant people—understood that there is nothing intrinsically good about “diversity.” “Diversity” simply means “variety” or “multiformity.” Diversity per se has no qualitative meaning. In pursuit of a more “diverse” community, do we want more thieves and rapists? Do we want more drunks, cigarette smokers, or slothful? Do we want to celebrate ill-tempered, deceitful Americans?
Diversity per se is not a strength. Diversity can be corrosive, dis-integrative—a cultural solvent.
Diversity per se does not make a community, state, or country stronger. What makes strong, healthy, decent societies is the presence of people committed to truth.
The San Francisco Giants released a statement on Saturday as leftist ire grew. (Haven’t we all learned by now that hell hath no fury like a sodomite not celebrated?):
Baseball should be a place where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued. … We understand that the choices by individual players have caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ+ community and we are sorry for that.
No word from the team on how conservative Christians, Orthodox Jews, or Muslims may feel when the team celebrates that which their respective faiths teach is abhorrent to God.
No word on whether the choices of individual players and management to celebrate sexual deviance causes pain and anger to members of religious communities.
No word on whether the team is sorry for forcing families either to endure exposing their children to such assaults on their faith or forgo what used to be America’s pastime and a unifying cultural event.
No one has a moral obligation to respect all of the feelings, beliefs, or actions of any other person. And no one has a right to expect or demand that all their feelings, beliefs, or actions be respected. If homosexual acts are immoral, we ought not respect or celebrate homosexuality. And neither the San Francisco Giants management, Bill Clinton, nor Barack Obama have a right to proclaim on behalf of MLB players or Americans what is objectively true about homosexuality.