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Democrat congressional hopeful Scott Wiener, running to fill Nancy Pelosi's seat in California District 11, believes LGBTQ+ Pride is a religion. Or at least, that's what his recent post on X and press release suggests. He praised the MLB for targeting Christians over their faith.
It all started over the weekend when San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Landen Roupp altered his Pride cap, part of the uniform cap celebrating Pride month. He wrote "Genesis 9: 12-16" next to the rainbow logo. Relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker also altered their hats to show Bible verses. They both wore the hat, but added their own flair to attest to their Christian faith.
The verses they referenced were those describing how God made a covenant with all mankind, symbolized by the rainbow, a promise that he would never again destroy all of humanity for their sins. The rainbow has now become a symbol for the LGBTQ agenda. Rob Schneider backed the players up, saying, "I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform."
The MLB didn't like it. "The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations," MLB Chief Communications Officer Pat Courtney said. The MLB said they warn players about any personal messages on their caps. "We have given the same warning numerous times in the past to players for messages such as ‘Dad’, ‘Happy Mother’s Day, I Love Mom’ and names of family members," the league said in a statement.
But for Wiener, writing Bible verses alongside a Pride log was a desecration. “On San Francisco Giants Pride Night," Wiener wrote, "also the tenth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre — several players defaced their Pride caps with a biblical passage that has been hijacked by homophobes to ‘take back’ the rainbow from LGBTQ people. The players could have displayed this passage any night of the year but chose to do it only on Pride Night."
Wiener called the Bible verses "Bigotry against LGBTQ people." He went on to say, "This isn’t an issue of religious freedom. People have a right to whatever religious beliefs they want — even if those beliefs dehumanize other people — but they don’t have a right to hijack their employer to promote those hateful beliefs at a job-related event. MLB didn’t warn these players for their faith. Rather, it warned them for violating the rules of their employment."
In other words, Major League Baseball and the San Francisco Giants can force players to espouse beliefs with which they do not agree, and those players have no choice in the matter. He demanded that the MLB enforce the rule against uniform "defacement" and force the players to honor Pride—whether they agree with those views or not.
For Wiener, LGBTQ Pride isn't a social perspective, it's a religion that must be enforced, that everyone must adhere to, whether they like it or not. He tries to skirt around it, saying that the MLB's warning against "defacement" isn't about religion, but about conditions of employment. For Wiener, the only religion allowed at work is the false religion of LGBTQ Pride.
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