Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to the MLB on Tuesday, seeking answers on why the professional baseball league threatened to penalize three San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night hats.Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker walked out onto the field on Friday with “Gen 9:12-16” etched on their caps in white lettering. The writing refers to Genesis 9:12-16. The passage is about God’s covenant with Noah following the worldwide flood described in the first book of the Bible. It marks the first recorded instance of a rainbow, which is also an LGBT symbol.Hawley said the MLB “must answer for what appears to be a pattern of discrimination” against Christian players.
“When three players added a handful of characters citing the Book of Genesis to their caps, the league reached for its rulebook,” the senator wrote in the letter. Earlier in that paragraph, he explained that the MLB didn’t have a problem allowing Black Lives Matter messaging on the field in 2020.
The sports organization cited its content-neutral policy in justifying its warnings to the three players.
“The writing on the cap violates our rules and consistent with normal practice we have warned the players about future violations,” the MLB said in a previous statement.
