Josh Hawley Demands Answers From MLB After Giants Pitchers Warned Over Bible Verses During Pride Night

Sen. Josh Hawley is demanding answers from Major League Baseball after the league issued warnings to several San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verse references on their caps during the team’s Pride Night celebration.

In a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Hawley questioned what he described as an “apparent pattern of discriminating against Christians while promoting left-wing ideologies.”

The Missouri Republican pointed to warnings given to Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker after they wrote references to Genesis 9 on rainbow-themed Pride Night caps during last week’s game at Oracle Park.

“The league went beyond tolerating speech—it designed speech, promoted speech, and shoehorned social and political messages into the game,” Hawley wrote, referencing MLB’s embrace of social justice messaging during the 2020 season. “Yet when three players added a handful of characters citing the Book of Genesis to their caps, the league reached for its rulebook.”

The dispute centers on MLB’s uniform policy, which generally prohibits players from adding personal messages or unauthorized writing to uniforms and equipment.

League officials insist the warnings had nothing to do with religion.

“To be clear, this routine verbal warning … had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message,” MLB said in a statement. According to the league, players have received similar warnings in the past for writing messages such as “Dad,” “Happy Mother’s Day, I Love Mom,” and family names on their gear.

Still, Hawley argues the situation raises questions about whether religious expression is being treated differently from other forms of messaging that MLB has embraced in recent years.

The controversy quickly drew attention from prominent conservatives.

Vice President JD Vance weighed in on social media, writing: “Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore.”

Comedian Rob Schneider also blasted the league and offered to cover any future fines imposed on players who wear Bible verses on their uniforms, accusing MLB of being “anti-Christian.”

Hawley is requesting internal documents related to MLB’s uniform policies, disciplinary history and guidance regarding religious expression. He has asked the league to respond by June 19.

More over at The New York Post:

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