Posted on 06/15/2026 5:38:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
After Christian players for the San Francisco Giants cited verses from Genesis chapter 9 on their team’s specially issued “Pride Night” ball caps, they were accused of hatefully “weaponizing” the rainbow against members of the LGBT community.
LGBT sports site Outsports published a commentary lamenting, “Three SF Giants pitchers disgraced themselves at the team’s Pride Night, weaponizing the Pride rainbow and attacking the LGBTQ community.”
Outsports’ co-founder Cyd Zigler went further: “As a middle finger to the LGBTQ community the size of Coit Tower, they wrote a Bible verse on their caps — drenching it with hate.” News flash: The rainbow never belonged to the LGBT movement. It is the LGBT movement which repeatedly steals it in order to weaponize it against nature, natural law, and Christianity.
The Genesis passage recounts God’s declaration that the rainbow is his sign of justice, faithfulness, and mercy toward humanity. It was never intended to be used to promote sexual deviancy.
Another sports site, The Athletic, which is owned by the New York Times (NYT), claimed that the players who resisted celebrating “Pride” during Friday night’s game was a “tone-deaf” response that “missed the point” of Pride Night.
READ: San Francisco Giants pitcher inscribes Bible verse on ‘Pride Night’ ball cap
Fansided’s Mark Powell accused the pitchers of hiding behind a “2,000-year-old book.”
The Athletic immediately jumped to yammering about how homosexual and transgender individuals are and will forever be victims.
Kyle Bass noted on X why the Giants players’ accusers are so breathtakingly wrong:
The players weren’t protesting. They weren’t disrupting anything. They weren’t demanding anyone agree with them. They wrote scripture on their hats. That’s it. And yet the media framing treats this as an act of aggression against inclusion…while simultaneously being deeply exclusionary toward them.
This is the core contradiction the mainstream sports media can never seem to resolve: inclusion only seems to flow in one direction. Pride Night deserves full-throated coverage and moral endorsement. A Bible verse deserves a condescending op-ed.
If a reporter wrote a piece mocking players for putting an LGBTQ+ symbol on their cap, their career would be over by morning. The double standard isn’t subtle …it’s architectural. [sic]
Giants pitcher Landen Roupp took the lion’s share of the heat for inscribing Genesis 9:12-16 on his Pride Night cap.
“There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for, and what I stand in. I believe in God,” said Roupp after the game.
“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy,” Roupp explained to reporters. “That’s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that, and I’m thankful we live in a country where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want … and express what we want.”
Genesis 9:12-16 recounts God’s covenant with Noah and his descendants:
God said: This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature—every mortal being—so that the waters will never again become a flood to destroy every mortal being. When the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature—every mortal being that is on earth.
Another Giants pitcher, JT Brubaker, wrote Genesis 9:13-15 on his hat.
Relief pitcher Sam Hentges refused to wear the “Pride” hat while Ryan Walker also reportedly wrote a Bible verse on his Pride Night ball cap.
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The rainbow was already weaponized.
At the Basketball games those brats were jumping around during the anthem, mumbling some kind of non Christian prayer and looking down, hands behind their backs
Players on both teams, knicks and Spurs. Players and coaches
When people thank me for my wartime military service I want to ask them what they are doing to defend the flag besides expecting only the military to do it
Are they spending money on seats for their ungrateful little country hating creeps?
It was the perverts who coopted the rainbow which was given as a sign from God.
“Pride Night deserves full-throated coverage...”
I might have chosen a different metaphor.
God is light. The part of God that we can see is Jesus. The part of light that we can see is the rainbow (visible light). Jesus is the rainbow.
Genesis 9:12-16 King James Version (KJV)12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
rainbow is to attract children
What he/she/it wanted to say:
"Fanny-sided’s Mark Powell accused the pitchers of hiding behind a “2,000-year-old book written by a bunch of filthy Jews. Besides, I'm a catcher, not a pitcher!”
The depravity of the left is unreal. They don’t even know how to spell the word “shameful”, let alone acknowledge what it means.
Ha haaaaaas!!!!!!! 🤣 😂 O, my poor sides are killing me!
The darkness cannot and will not ever abide The Light.
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