(LifeSiteNews) — After Christian players for the San Francisco Giants cited verses from Genesis chapter 9 on their team’s specially issued “Pride Night” ball caps, they were accused of hatefully “weaponizing” the rainbow against members of the LGBT community.
LGBT sports site Outsports published a commentary lamenting, “Three SF Giants pitchers disgraced themselves at the team’s Pride Night, weaponizing the Pride rainbow and attacking the LGBTQ community.”
Outsports’ co-founder Cyd Zigler went further: “As a middle finger to the LGBTQ community the size of Coit Tower, they wrote a Bible verse on their caps — drenching it with hate.”
News flash: The rainbow never belonged to the LGBT movement. It is the LGBT movement which repeatedly steals it in order to weaponize it against nature, natural law, and Christianity.
The Genesis passage recounts God’s declaration that the rainbow is his sign of justice, faithfulness, and mercy toward humanity. It was never intended to be used to promote sexual deviancy.
Another sports site, The Athletic, which is owned by the New York Times (NYT), claimed that the players who resisted celebrating “Pride” during Friday night’s game was a “tone-deaf” response that “missed the point” of Pride Night.
READ: San Francisco Giants pitcher inscribes Bible verse on ‘Pride Night’ ball cap
Fansided’s Mark Powell accused the pitchers of hiding behind a “2,000-year-old book.”
The Athletic immediately jumped to yammering about how homosexual and transgender individuals are and will forever be victims.
Kyle Bass noted on X why the Giants players’ accusers are so breathtakingly wrong:
The players weren’t protesting. They weren’t disrupting anything. They weren’t demanding anyone agree with them. They wrote scripture on their hats. That’s it. And yet the media framing treats this as an act of aggression against inclusion…while simultaneously being deeply exclusionary toward them.
This is the core contradiction the mainstream sports media can never seem to resolve: inclusion only seems to flow in one direction. Pride Night deserves full-throated coverage and moral endorsement. A Bible verse deserves a condescending op-ed.
If a reporter wrote a piece mocking players for putting an LGBTQ+ symbol on their cap, their career would be over by morning. The double standard isn’t subtle …it’s architectural. [sic]
Giants pitcher Landen Roupp took the lion’s share of the heat for inscribing Genesis 9:12-16 on his Pride Night cap.
“There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for, and what I stand in. I believe in God,” said Roupp after the game.
“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy,” Roupp explained to reporters. “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 … and express what we want.”
Genesis 9:12-16 recounts God’s covenant with Noah and his descendants:
God said: This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature—every mortal being—so that the waters will never again become a flood to destroy every mortal being. When the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature—every mortal being that is on earth.
Another Giants pitcher, JT Brubaker, wrote Genesis 9:13-15 on his hat.
Relief pitcher Sam Hentges refused to wear the “Pride” hat while Ryan Walker also reportedly wrote a Bible verse on his Pride Night ball cap.
UPDATE: At least 4 San Francisco Giants players protested Pride Night on Friday vs Chicago
1. Starting pitcher Landen Roupp wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on his Pride hat
2. Reliever Sam Hentges refused to wear the Pride hat (just like Blake Treinen)
3. Reliever JT Brubaker wrote… https://t.co/lHXPNQog9N pic.twitter.com/IwwH4m2gxl
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) June 13, 2026
