Giants pitchers school Pride activists in real diversity

San Francisco Giants team members committed the unpardonable sin of daring to think for themselves on Pride Night.

Instead of donning the team’s rainbow-branded caps like good little allies, they quietly pushed back, and in doing so, triggered one of the more revealing meltdowns in politics this year.

Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wore the special black “Pride Night” ballcaps with a rainbow “SF” logo, but scribbled “Genesis 9:12-16” next to it. Sam Hentges simply said, “no thanks,” and wore the plain team cap.

The Bible verse referred to? It’s the one where God, after the Flood, hangs His bow in the sky as a universal covenant with Noah, all humanity and “every living creature.”

It’s the ancient text that predates Gilbert Baker’s 1978 rainbow flag by a few thousand years.

Roupp calmly explained it was about God’s faithfulness and mercy. No rants, no slurs — just scripture.

Enter state Sen. Scott Wiener, congressional candidate for Nancy Pelosi’s old seat and Guardian of the LGBTQ+ Rainbow. Wiener didn’t merely disagree, he went full activist diva.

He denounced the biblical inscriptions as “homophobic” hijacking, sneered that the players chose Pride Night on purpose to “target” the community, and accused the Giants of running a “homophobia exemption” program.

In a masterclass of tolerance, Wiener declared that while people can hold beliefs that “dehumanize others,” they have no right to express them at a work event. Translation: Your Torah is fine in private, but don’t you dare bring it near our branded merchandise.

Wiener capped off his performance by telling Vice President JD Vance and other critics to “go back into your cave.”

Because nothing says “compassionate public servant” like Wiener mocking people of faith while demanding total ideological conformity. Especially LGBT conformity.

This is the same legislator who positions himself as a “coalition-builder,” except when anyone dares suggest the rainbow might belong to more than one political tribe.

In Wiener’s world, the symbol that Mother Nature and the Bible have claimed for millennia suddenly became exclusive LGBTQ+ real estate in 1978, and any clarification or reclamation attempt is heresy.

Here we have millionaire athletes in a multibillion-dollar league being lectured by a San Francisco politician that peacefully referencing the original Owner’s Manual for the rainbow constitutes bigotry.

Talk about colonizing a covenant.

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The Giants, to their mild credit, mumbled something about “pain and anger” in the community while quietly supporting player choice.

MLB issued verbal warnings for the shocking crime of writing on a hat, rules they conveniently enforce — except when the message aligns with approved narratives.

Thankfully, adults have shown up.

Missouri Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway demanded MLB stop discriminating against the players’ faith and promised action if they didn’t. Florida AG James Uthmeier signaled his office would investigate the religious liberty implications. Sen. Josh Hawley fired off a formal letter hunting for patterns of anti-Christian bias.

Vance summed up the vibe perfectly: “Trump won. We don’t have to do this anymore.”

And now, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has even weighed in: “People of faith should not be compelled to hide or suppress their sincerely held religious convictions in public life, including in the world of professional sports,” spokesman Peter Marlow told The California Post.

Meanwhile, red-state AGs, hardly known as right-wing theocrats, are the ones defending basic rights.

This wasn’t about hatred. It was about pluralism in the face of enforced orthodoxy.

The rainbow isn’t a registered trademark of the Pride industrial complex. It appears after storms for everyone — believer and skeptic, gay and straight, for Wiener and the Giants pitchers alike. Treating a Bible verse as toxic waste while sacralizing a corporate flag reveals the authoritarian insecurity at the heart of modern identity politics.

The Giants pitchers modeled something refreshingly normal: Compete hard, honor your beliefs without fanfare and refuse to pretend the Bible is subordinate to 21st century branding.

Wiener’s unhinged reaction, by contrast, exposed the brittle extremism lurking behind the rainbow veneer. When a sitting legislator equates ancient scripture with hate and mocks dissenters as cave dwellers, it’s not the players who look bigoted and intolerant.