Lots of gay pride celebrations this month across America. And that includes Major League baseball games. A number of teams are sporting rainbow colors and even changing their logos to appease the LGBT activists.
The Los Angeles Dodgers even made the guys wear rainbow-colored hats during a Pride Night game against the San Francisco Giants.
But pitcher Clayton Kershaw decided to accessorize his ball cap with a Christian message. Kershaw is a devout Christian.
He wrote a Bible verse on his ball cap – Genesis 9:12-17. That’s the passage of Scripture that explains the true meaning of the rainbow. It has nothing to do with who you sleep with. It has everything to do with a covenant between God and mankind.
The verses read in part: “And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.’”
In 2023 Kershaw spoke out when the Dodgers honored the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” a group of drag queens dressed as nuns.
“This has nothing to do with the LGBTQ community or pride or anything like that,” he said at the time. “This is simply a group that was making fun of a religion, that I don’t agree with.”
LGBT groups were enraged and accused him of being intolerant and homophobic.
“Clayton Kershaw will always be a Dodger great, but it’s things like this that make him a lot less likeable. Just wear the hat. Be a tolerant Christian and accept that there are others who believe differently than you,” one critic wrote on social media.
The Dodgers Way website published an essay calling out the Christian ballplayer.
“What Kershaw doesn’t seem to understand is that LGBTQ+ pride and the existence of queer people do not infringe upon his right to practice his religion or even to be outspoken about it. They do not render his faith less meaningful. However, he appears to take any show of support for a marginalized group that still faces not only hostility but real, physical danger as a direct infringement upon those rights. Redirecting attention from uplifting queer people on the one night they are allotted during a 162-game season, even with a quiet protest like the one he put on, is not harmless and is not meaningless. It endorses exclusion in a game that already doesn’t and may never fully embrace queer people.”
The irony is that the only intolerance is coming from the radical activists within gay rights movement. Either pledge allegiance to their agenda – or be tossed out of the ballpark.