MLB issues stronger statement than the Giants organization.
MLB warns 3 San Francisco Giants players who scrawled a Bible verse on Pride hats
Major League Baseball issued a response to three San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Biblical inscriptions on the team’s Pride caps: You’ve been warned.
“The writing on the cap violates our rules and consistent with normal practice we have warned the players about future violations,” Pat Courtney, MLB’s chief communications officer, told Outsports in a statement.
On Friday, starting pitcher starting pitcher Landen Roupp and relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wore the rainbow Pride caps on Pride Night but wrote the Bible verse “Genesis 9:11-16″ next to the rainbow “SF.” (Pitcher Sam Hentges did not wear the Pride cap, opting for the team’s normal hat.) The verse says that God promises to never flood the Earth and to demonstrate that, “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the Earth.”
The verse has been used by Christians as a way to “claim” the rainbow for their religion in opposition for its use as an LGBTQ symbol. Roupp admitted as such in a postgame interview when he said he had never written the verse on a cap before but felt compelled so in this case.
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