A US professional baseball game has been cancelled, after home team players refused to wear jerseys emblazoned with the colours of the LGBT flag.
Pennsylvania’s York Revolution announced that the scheduled league game against Southern Maryland — chosen by the club as a centrepiece to its annual celebration of ‘Pride inclusivity’ — would not go ahead on account of the players’ protest.
York Revolution President Ben Shipley told NBC News that fewer than nine of the 28 players in the club’s lineup were willing to appear in the controversial shirts. The club publicly criticised the players for acting in a way “completely inconsistent” with its pro-LGBT agenda.
God’s covenant
San Francisco Giants players Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker recently received warnings after referencing Genesis 9:11-16 on team caps bearing the LGBT six-colour rainbow.
Roupp told reporters: “There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for, and what I stand on: I believe in God. 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, and express what we want.”
Major League Baseball (MLB) said: “The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations.”
The US Department of Justice has referred MLB to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate whether its conduct violated the players’ religious liberty rights.
Swing and a miss! Major League Baseball encouraged players to wear “Black Lives Matter” on their uniforms but reportedly threatened Christians who write Bible verses on their hats. @USEEOC will investigate whether this amounts to religious discrimination. pic.twitter.com/pSNxhOfr7E
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) June 18, 2026
