Why Aren’t Any World Cup Players Taking A Knee For Henry Nowak?
The England squad may play in whites, but they certainly don’t play for them anymore. And they absolutely, definitely, don’t kneel for them.The England squad may play in whites, but they certainly don’t play for them anymore. And they absolutely, definitely, don’t kneel for them.Do Giants fans hate the Christian protest on Pride Night? Attendance numbers reveal the truth
Fans threw a lot of vitriol at three San Francisco Giants players who wrote biblical references on their caps last Friday, leading to turmoil with the league.
Major League Baseball issued a warning to the players while the Giants franchise offered an apology, seemingly pointing to a huge blowback against the team over the protests.
'Baseball should be a place where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued.'
After pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wrote differing forms of "Genesis 9:12-16" on their LGBT-themed Pride hats last Friday against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park, fans took to social media to vent their gripes.
The fan page on Reddit was particularly ruthless, where one fan even compared the use of Bible verses to "writing racist s**t on Jackie Robinson night."
"What a bunch of f**king morons," the user added.
Another Redditor called the players "the 4 Bigot pitchers," adding reliever Sam Hentges in the mix, who simply chose to wear a regular Giants cap on the night in question, not the Pride one.
More commenters seemed frustrated that the "locker room leaders" did not express concern over the incident.
However, the outrage seemingly did not affect attendance at the park when compared to the home games that followed Pride Night on Friday, which had an official attendance of 38,115. On Saturday, attendance dipped to 35,142 before jumping to 40,093 on Sunday afternoon, less than a thousand short of a sellout.
While many factors affect ticket sales — starting pitchers, day of the week, time of day, etc. — one thing is certain: Fans still showed up for the games following the widely discussed protest.
The Giants won't return home until June 23 against the Athletics, when the dust surrounding the MLB warning and team apology may have settled.
In a statement to the Athletic, the league warned the three pitchers, saying, "The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations."
The MLB has remained steadfast in its restrictions on players altering hats, having warned players in the past for writing phrases like "Dad," "Happy Mother's Day," "I Love Mom," or names of family members, the MLB said, per ABC News.
According to the San Francisco Standard, the Giants organization issued a statement reinforcing that "baseball should be a place where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued."
While the team said it respected the decisions made by its players, the Giants noted, "We understand that the choices by individual players have caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ+ community and we are sorry for that."
The protest does not change the Giants' commitment to "inclusion, belonging, and creating a welcoming environment for all," the team added.
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Minor league baseball team cancels Pride Night ballgame — but still holds Pride Night to punish players
A minor league baseball team was left completely at odds with its own players this week over a gay Pride celebration.
The York Revolution is a team in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball — an official MLB partner league — at the center of controversy in Pennsylvania.
'This action by the players is completely inconsistent with our vision.'
The Revolution had planned a Pride Night celebration for Thursday, complete with home jerseys with rainbow sleeves set to be worn by players at WellSpan Park.
There was only one problem: The players refused to wear the jerseys.
"It is with great disappointment and [sic] that the York Revolution have issued important changes to our 11th Annual Pride Night on Thursday, June 18th," the organization wrote in a press release.
In a bizarre decision, the franchise decided not to simply cancel the Pride theme for the game, but to cancel the game entirely and submit an official forfeit.
"Out of respect for the Pride Community [sic] and the York community as a whole, the York Revolution has decided that the game on Thursday, June 18, will be forfeited."
At the same time, the organization made it clear it did not agree with the players' decision not to wear the rainbow uniforms, indicating the players were not being "inclusive."
"This decision was not reached lightly. Unfortunately, several of our players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride Night jersey and the club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear jerseys they are not comfortable with and playing the game," the team wrote.
The organization went on, "To be clear; [sic] this action by the players is completely inconsistent with our vision as the Most Welcoming Place in York."
The penance shown by the team was multifaceted. Not only did York outright cancel and forfeit the game, the organization said it would treat the game as if it were rained out so fans can redeem their tickets for any future games.
Additionally, the team decided it would host a stand-alone Pride event at the baseball park in place of the game, in support of "our LGBTQIA+ representing partners."
The event will have music, batting practice on the field, and the ability to "enjoy community," the team said.
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The apology did not come without payment, either, as the Revolution also announced the organization would be donating $10,000 to the Rainbow Rose Center to "further their work in making sure the York community is ... inclusive."
The Rainbow Rose Center's mission is to build a "vibrant community of belonging where LGBTQIA+ individuals" are "supported, affirmed, and able to thrive."
On Wednesday, the organization promoted an auction for one of the Revolution's Pride jerseys.
Business will resume as normal on Friday night, when the Revolution host a home game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. The game will include a Juneteenth Celebration and a "Girl Scout Sleepover."
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MLB’s Pride police strike out against Christian players
For years, June looked like the American Ramadan: an entire month dedicated to the state religion of LGBTQ politics, complete with mandatory observances across every major institution.
Gay men exposed themselves to children at parades while police looked on. Transgender activists went topless on the White House lawn while Joe Biden declared that transgender youth “shape the soul of America.” The spectacle was grotesque, but the LGBTQ movement kept winning, and its radicals assumed they could do whatever they wanted without consequence.
For too long, conservatives pretended the state could remain neutral while the left captured every major institution. That fantasy is over.
Donald Trump’s 2024 victory shocked the cultural radicals who expected the country to keep swallowing the agenda. Trump did not end wokeness, but his mandate signaled a limit to what the public would tolerate. Movies and television still push woke pieties. Democrats still advance insane views on child transition. But the most outrageous excesses of Pride Month have begun to recede. This June, far fewer institutions seemed eager to signal total loyalty to the rainbow regime.
Professional sports remain among the stubborn exceptions.
Hockey and baseball teams still drape their social media in rainbow colors and hold Pride nights at their stadiums. On the surface, this makes little sense. Sports audiences tend to be male, more conservative, and far less interested in radical LGBTQ propaganda than the professional class that runs these leagues. Pride branding does not attract these fans. It alienates them.
So why keep doing it?
Because the point is not profit. The point is domination.
The leagues maintain their public worship of homosexuality because it irritates their middle-American audience. Hollywood did something similar with “Joker.” The first film made a fortune, but elites hated that disaffected young men embraced it. So the sequel humiliated and destroyed the main character. The studio cared more about punishing the audience than pleasing it.
Sports owners increasingly behave the same way. They despise the people who make them rich and would rather lecture them than serve them.
San Francisco is hardly a conservative stronghold, so no one should be surprised that the Giants held a Pride night and required players to wear LGBTQ-themed uniforms. The team redesigned its logo in rainbow colors and placed it on player caps, as it has done before.
This time, a few players found a way to resist.
Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wore the required Pride caps but wrote “Genesis 9:11-16” beside the logo. The passage refers to God giving mankind the rainbow as a sign of His promise never again to flood the earth.
It was a clever protest. The players wore the mandated symbol of the regime. They did not directly attack LGBTQ activists or the Pride agenda. They simply recontextualized the rainbow, turning a celebration of homosexuality into a reminder of God’s love, covenant, and dominion. The shift was subtle but devastating. It seized the frame and subverted the intended message.
Activists were predictably outraged. They could not tolerate faithful Christians finding a tactful way to register dissent. They demanded punishment, claiming the players had “politicized” the event.
That complaint sounds absurd until you understand the real rule. This is not hypocrisy. It is hierarchy.
Pride night itself is political. Professional athletes routinely wear political messages for approved causes such as Black Lives Matter. Leagues have no problem turning games into ideological performances when the message serves the left. The issue is not whether Major League Baseball should remain neutral. The issue is that only one form of politics is allowed.
The warning to the Giants pitchers was an assertion of raw power over players and fans. It told Christians that they may be forced to wear the symbol, but they may not interpret it according to their own faith. They may participate in the ritual, but they may not confess a higher authority.
Major League Baseball understood its dilemma. The protest was too careful to cast easily as hateful. The players had worn the required uniform. A severe punishment would look vindictive. But the league also needed to placate activists who treat every Christian objection as heresy.
So the league chose the worst possible middle ground. It reportedly warned the three players that they had violated a rule and could face consequences if they did it again. Fans and Christians will see the warning as a bigoted attack because that is what it is. LGBTQ activists will see it as insufficient punishment for disobedience.
The decision may also bring legal trouble. Major League Baseball operates in Florida and is subject to that state’s law. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier noted on social media that the policy appears to show religious discrimination by the league. He warned that Major League Baseball would be hearing from his office soon.
Good.
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This is why conservatives must obtain political power and use it. Progressives will not stop discriminating against Christians. They will not leave believers alone. They will demand submission, call it inclusion, and punish anyone who remembers that the rainbow belonged to God before activists turned it into a corporate loyalty oath.
For too long, conservatives pretended the state could remain neutral while the left captured every major institution. That fantasy is over. Someone will dictate the culture. Someone will decide which beliefs are honored, which are tolerated, and which are punished.
Christians should not seek persecution as proof of virtue. They should seek victory as the proper end of political life. If corporate sports leagues want to conscript players into Pride rituals and punish faithful dissent, they should face lawsuits, investigations, and political consequences.
The rainbow is not theirs. It never was. It’s ours. The lesson should be obvious by now: Neutrality never survives contact with a militant faith. If Christians refuse to defend their symbols, the regime will gladly steal them and demand gratitude for the theft next June too.
Gays, We Brought The Backlash On Ourselves
It's long past time that gays settle down. Stop asking the nation to indulge your preoccupations and preferences. They've come to resent it.MLB sends subtle threat to SF Giants pitchers over Pride Night biblical protest: 'We have warned the players'
Three San Francisco Giants pitchers have received a league warning about their failure to comply with the team's Pride Night celebration, Major League Baseball stated.
Specifically, Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker are being threatened with league discipline.
'That's just kind of something I believe in.'
On Friday, starting pitcher Landen Roupp and relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wore the rainbow Pride caps on Pride Night but wrote a Bible verse on them. The Pride Night hats featured a rainbow version of the Giants' logo that included colors that represent transgenderism.
In a statement to the Athletic, the league said, "The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations."
Roupp was asked about his silent protest after the game and said, "It's just about God's covenant and a promise that He makes to us that, you know, His faithfulness and His mercy."
"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," Roupp added, per Sports Illustrated.
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Roupp, Brubaker, and Walker referenced Genesis 9:12-16 on their caps, which says the following:
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: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 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. 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."
Additionally, Giants reliever Sam Hentges appeared in the game on Friday night and decided not to wear the Pride hat, instead opting for the Giants' black and orange logo.
Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers Blake Treinen protested in a similar manner last week when he refused to wear a Pride-themed hat when he pitched in the ninth inning.
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The Bible verse method of protest was also used by Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw in 2025, when he wrote, "Gen 9:12-16," on his hat as well.
Blaze News has also reported on the Washington Nationals' public relations disaster surrounding pitcher Trevor Williams and his alleged blacklisting from team promotions due to his Catholic faith.
Williams spoke out against Pride celebrations in 2023, when he was also a member of the Dodgers.
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After Claiming ‘Baseball Is For Everyone,’ MLB Threatens Players For Expressing Christian Faith
Major League Baseball (MLB) threatened to punish several Christian ballplayers for the San Francisco Giants on Monday after they inscribed Bible verses on their team’s “pride night” uniforms. “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 […]LA Dodgers pitcher refuses to comply with Pride Night, enraging progressive fans
A star pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers would not bow to gay Pride on Friday night, marking another instance of what has become a consistent occurrence for the organization for the last few years.
The Dodgers' 2026 Pride Night against the Los Angeles Angels at Dodger Stadium was not without controversy, but the most contentious moment was saved for the end of the game.
'Blake Treinen is not a team player.'
In a year when MLB teams have significantly toned down home-game promotions of certain sexualities — most teams are simply offering special ticket packages — the Dodgers opted to wear hats that celebrate transgenderism, among other things, for the fifth straight year.
However, the team's progressive celebrations hit a bump in the road of total compliance when pitcher Blake Treinen entered the game in the ninth inning. "Blake Treinen's coming in!" the announcer said as Treinen entered the game.
As he jogged out to the mound, it was obvious to all that he was wearing a standard Dodgers cap, devoid of special themes. Viewers were apparently triggered over the idea that the 37-year-old wouldn't simply comply.
"Imagine hating gay people so much that you refuse to wear a hat with a rainbow on it," one viewer wrote on X.
Popular baseball account "Not Gaetti" said fans should be horrified that Treinen won't put the rainbow hat on.
"Whatever your beliefs, it should horrify you that a guy who gets paid $11,000,000 per year can't be bothered to wear his employer-assigned uniform for the 5 minutes he spends in the ballgame," the fan wrote. "Blake Treinen is not a team player."
These comments don't represent everyone's views, though, especially not all Dodgers players or fans.
Recently retired Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw was famously outspoken about the Pride Nights and even chose to write a Bible verse on his rainbow hat last season.
Kershaw had taken issue with the celebrations for years, speaking out against the team inviting the highly controversial and anti-Christian activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 2023. Kershaw said at the time he felt the group was making fun of his faith.
The group's invitation to Dodger Stadium also spawned a massive protest in response.
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The Dodgers debuted their Pride hats in 2022, and interestingly, although Treinen has played on the team since the tradition began, this was the first time he pitched on a Pride Night. Treinen was injured during the 2022 and 2023 events and simply wasn't put into the games in 2024 and 2025.
Last year, Treinen made headlines for a different kind of political activism when he wore a message in support of Charlie Kirk after Kirk was assassinated during a campus tour stop in Utah.
Treinen's hat read "Charlie Kirk" across the side, with a cross on both sides.
Treinen pitched one-third of an inning on Friday. The Dodgers won 1-0 on a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth.
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