Trump’s DOJ Is Investigating Baseball Over a Pride Hat

On Friday, the San Francisco Giants held their annual Pride Night at Oracle Park. The rainbow caps the team handed out were optional. One Giants player simply chose not to wear his, which broke no rule at all. Three pitchers, including starter Landen Roupp, did something different: they wore theirs and wrote Bible verses on them in protest. Defacing the uniform, not declining to wear it, is what actually violates Major League Baseball’s rules.MLB warned the three players that writing on the uniform is against the rules and that further violations could bring discipline, the same policy that keeps any player from scrawling a personal message across his jersey. The verse Roupp chose, Genesis 9:12-16, happens to be the passage where God sets a rainbow in the sky as the sign of his covenant, which means a protest against a rainbow celebration was staged using the one piece of scripture about the origin of the rainbow.What should have ended in the clubhouse became a federal matter instead. Vice President JD Vance posted that Trump won and “we don’t have to do this anymore.” California State Senator Scott Wiener replied, “Yes, we do.” Then Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General who leads the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, sent Commissioner Rob Manfred a letter referring the league to federal investigators over whether warning the players amounts to religious discrimination. The San Francisco Archdiocese has since joined the administration in defending the players.The inversion is hard to miss. The players had a rule-free way to opt out and didn’t take it. They wore the hat, defaced it, and were warned for breaking a rule every player follows. And the federal government’s response is to target the league for enforcing its own rulebook, not the players who broke it. A Civil Rights Division that has spent the year stepping back from cases involving voting, housing, and discrimination is now treating a baseball uniform policy as a civil rights emergency.Sourceshttps://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article316193934.htmlhttps://abc7news.com/post/vice-president-jd-vance-criticizes-giants-pride-night-controversy-trump-won-california-state-sen-scott-wiener-responds/19317184/ Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe