Posted on 06/09/2023 6:19:00 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Toronto Blue Jays have cut pitcher Anthony Bass a week after he shared a video that encouraged Christians to boycott companies such as Target and Bud Light over their LGBT advocacy.
Bass, 35, initially apologized for sharing the video on May 31. He shared a clip from a person named Ryan Miller, who is behind an Instagram account “dudewithgoodnews.”
The video quoted Bible verses and called the LGBT ideology “evil” and “demonic.”
Bass quickly expressed remorse following a backlash, but his critics did not feel his apology was genuine. He was booed a day after sharing the video by the home crowd in Toronto:
While he initially said he was sorry, the right-hander said Thursday the video did in fact reflect his beliefs and he did not view what he shared as hateful.
Bass said he had come to view the LGBT dustup as a “distraction” and that he would refrain from sharing his personal views online in the future.
“The video itself, obviously, I took it down,” he said, The Athletic reported. “But I stand by my personal beliefs and everyone’s entitled to their personal beliefs, right?”
Bass added, “But also I mean no harm toward any groups of people.
“As a team, our job is to win baseball games. And that’s my focus,” he also said.
The pitcher was scheduled to catch a “healing” ceremonial first pitch from an LGBT activist before Friday’s home game against the Minnesota Twins and during its “Pride Weekend,” Fox News reported.
Instead, the pitcher was told just hours before the start of the game that he was out of a job.
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After he clears waivers, another team can pick him up but pay only the major league minimum and Toronto is on the hook for the difference between that and the $3 million. One way or another, Toronto is paying all or most of the $3 million salary.
Is that Otis?
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me (Jesus) before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I choose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” John 15:18-19
We endure the hate filled world with love for the truth and righteousness.
Done with MLB; not worth a compromise with evil
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Canada euthanized 13,000 last year
Satan controls many in this world as they follow his lies.
We know that Jesus has already defeated sin and will be victorious and a few will find the narrow gate of life with God.
We choose the ways of the world and Satan or God.
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