Posted on 06/19/2026 10:18:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The growing controversy surrounding the San Francisco Giants and Major League Baseball’s response to players displaying Bible verses on their hats during a Pride Night game has put the league in hot water with federal authorities. Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at Department of Justice, announced in a scathing letter on Thursday that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would investigate the case.
Dhillon’s letter, addressed to MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred, blasted the league for potential violations of the law. “The Civil Rights Act prohibits MLB and its franchises from unreasonably burdening the rights of players with religious objections to serving as the League’s vehicle for pro-Pride messages,” she wrote.
The debate began after Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wrote “Gen 9:12-16” on their rainbow-themed Pride Night caps during a game last week against the Chicago Cubs. The Bible passage references God’s covenant with Noah and describes the rainbow as a sign of that promise.
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How is it leftist a-holes always end up running these orgs? 90% of the fans agree with the pitchers but that does not seem to matter.
Major League Baseball showed their true colors when they spit in the face of all Americans, kneeling in solidarity with Communist organizations such as Black Lives MatterTM.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. May the league disappear into the dustbin of history.
Back at in the 70’s the Texas Rangers had a bat now night. Kids of a certain age got a youth sized baseball bat. Everyone used them to bang on the floor as applause. These were authentic sized bats, not the little 14” jobs they went to later.
The people were much better behaved then. Can you imagine a few thousand real sized bats being handed out in a modern baseball game?
None of that pride crap would have been accepted then…
Nope the lemmings need the bread and circuses. A great many on the site as well would never stop watching/going.
DOJ should hit MLB with a billion dollar lawsuit for civil rights law violations.
The dems never hesitated to do that. Democrat DOJs used “consent decrees” to strong-arm and bludgeon police departments all over the country into rolling over on minority crime.
This whole Homo Religion needs to get off the baseball field.
Unfortunately, MLB can — and will — close that can of worms as they see fit. I don’t think there is any legal basis for a government agency or court to dictate terms for a professional sports league’s uniform policy.
Any policy the league has, including uniforms, must be applied consistently or it's discrimination. Once they allowed "Black Lives Matter" and other "social justice" patches on uniforms, facemasks, etc. they'd have to allow others.
It's not even the fines, the threat of fines alone are sufficient. The lawyers were waiting for MLB management to cross the line and they just did.
Professional sports leagues “own” their uniforms. That’s why players can’t sign their own sponsorship deals for the uniforms they wear, and team sponsorship deals for their uniforms must comply with league standards.
Genesis 9:16 says when the rainbow appears in the clouds, God will “look on it to remember the everlasting covenant”
The rainbow is the visible sign of an everlasting covenant made between God and ALL living creatures on this Earth, under the Earth and in the Earth after the Flood. God promises to never again destroy the Earth with a flood. Peter tells us to read the fine print, instead the world will be destroyed by fire at the time of the end.
At the close of the age, it is broken:
“The earth is also defiled by its inhabitants, for they violated laws, altered statutes, and broke the everlasting covenant.” - Isaiah 24:5
“Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.” - Matthew 10:15
Many shall be offended:
“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.” - Matthew 24:10
As in the days of Noah:
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” - Matthew 24:37-39
As in the days of Sodom:
“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” - Luke 17:28-30
That day comes as a thief in the night:
“But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” - 2 Peter 3:10
Such an hour as you think not:
“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” - Matthew 24:44
In Revelation Chapter 10, an Angel clothed with a rainbow stands on the Earth (Israel) and the Sea (Gentile Nations) and tells us there is no more time, the secret things are completed, now it will be as it is plainly foretold in scripture:
“And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” - Revelation 10:6-7
“I don’t think there is any legal basis for a government agency or court to dictate terms for a professional sports league’s uniform policy.”
The courts have carved out a MLB exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act to enable the organization to act as a monopoly. Congress has gone along with the practice.
So MLB is deep into the bed with our government; and baseball owners are loving every billion dollars of it.
It is a little too late to claim MLB is a virtuous little private company.
I don’t know what the antitrust exemption has to do with this. And I don’t think that exemption gives MLB much more than what other professional sports leagues have without it.
Major League Baseball management allowed anti-Christian messaging on the uniforms but not Christian messages.
"The league’s claim that it merely forbids "writing of any kind" on its uniforms does not survive a cursory review of the league’s recent history. In 2020, MLB itself turned its uniforms and its fields into a billboard for political and social messages. It created jersey patches reading 'Black Lives Matter' and 'United for Change.' It authorized 'BLM' to be stenciled onto pitching mounds. And it suspended its own equipment rules so that players could display progressive political slogans on their cleats." - Senator Josh Hawley
MLB operates under the aegis of the Supreme Court and Congress. It wouldn't even exist in current form without the Supreme Court and Congress approval.
Now MLB is going to tell the SC and Congress “don't tell us what to do?”
Actually, MLB hasn't said that: you have said that.
I can't stop you from saying that; wouldn't even try.
Just know that Florida has strong civil rights law prohibiting religious discrimination. Like Disney, MLB is going to learn not to show out in the Gunshine state.
The bigger problem is that all the reports I’ve seen indicate that players had the option of not wearing the hat … which means it’s hard to keep a straight face while trying to make the first point above.
I think it would. The NFL, NBA and NHL all exist in a similar form without any such exemption.
And it's not just about you wearing the hat or choosing the option not to, it's about watching other players allowed to promote their "belief system" on the uniform while you are denied the same right to promote yours.
I bet the NBL doesn't feel that way; otherwise they would be threatening to get rid of their anti-trust exemption.
You don't understand how billionaires think. Neither do I really.
It’s show business and the players are employees.
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