A group of San Francisco Giants players facing unhinged leftist blowback for sharing their Christian faith is receiving support from a fellow brother in Christ.
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Ryan Thompson defended Giants players Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker on Tuesday after they wrote references to Genesis 9:12-16 on their LGBT-themed hats during the team’s Friday “pride night.” The Bible verses detail God’s use of a rainbow to signify His covenant that He would never again destroy mankind by flooding the Earth.
Giants pitcher Sam Hentges declined to wear the team’s rainbow-colored hat altogether.
In addition to disturbing meltdowns from corporate media leftists, the San Francisco players have endured condemnation from Major League Baseball (MLB). The league issued a statement on Monday threatening the players with punishment if they expressed their Christian faith in such a manner in future games.
Coming to his fellow players’ defense, Thompson, a Christian, shot down the “perceived negativity” projected onto the Giants pitchers’ actions. He emphasized how Roupp and Co.’s biblical reference demonstrates God’s mercy and the “special” covenant He established with his children.
“I think that there’s a perceived negativity with this stuff of like, ‘Okay, Landen Roupp wrote a verse on his hat, that means that he’s anti something.’ That doesn’t mean that. It means that he’s pro something, right? So, the rainbow means something to him. It means that he believes in the Noahic Covenant being something that’s special to us as Christians,” Thompson said. “That means that no matter how bad we possibly could be, no matter how much we reject God, that He will never again flood the Earth. That’s really cool; that’s really special.”
The Arizona pitcher went on to note how “we’re all sinful” and “do a lot of stuff that maybe worthy of a flooding.” But it’s because of God’s “unconditional” promise, Thompson said, that He “will never flood us.”
“There’s nothing negative — there’s nothing anti. There’s nothing that says that [Roupp] doesn’t support anything, or that he’s like hateful, or anything like that at all,” Thompson said. “It’s all positive. It’s all like, ‘Man, this is what the rainbow means to me.’ And I just thought that was really cool that he did that.”
MLB’s crusade against the Giants players has since caught the attention of federal and state officials.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday demanding answers from the league on “what appears to be a pattern of discrimination within MLB against baseball players who profess their Christian faith.”
MLB claimed that their warning to the Giants’ players “had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message,” and that the league prohibits “writing of any kind” on uniforms. Pushing back on this in his letter, Hawley highlighted how the league authorized writing on its uniforms and fields for Black Lives Matter and other left-wing “social messages” in 2020.
James Uthmeier and Catherine Hanaway, the state attorneys general of Florida and Missouri, also signaled their offices will probe the league about its treatment of Christians. The latter sent a letter to MLB over the matter on Wednesday and said she will “open an investigation if MLB fails to respond … by June 25.”
