After Major League Baseball issued standard warnings against players defacing their team caps on Pride night, MAGA extremists online unleashed a torrent of hate against the organization.
SAN FRANCISCO – After MAGA leaders attacked Major League Baseball for issuing warnings to the Giants players who defaced their caps on Pride night, Senator Scott Wiener issued the following statement:
“On San Francisco Giants Pride Night — also the tenth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre — several players defaced their Pride caps with a biblical passage that has been hijacked by homophobes to ‘take back’ the rainbow from LGBTQ people. The players could have displayed this passage any night of the year but chose to do it only on Pride Night.
“The Giants, sadly, took no action in response, which is inconsistent with the Giants’ longstanding support for our LGBTQ community. Major League Baseball then warned the players that MLB rules bar defacement of uniforms. The Giants should publicly commit to enforcing rules around uniform defacement and should not effectively create a homophobia exemption to those rules.
You can read the rest of this press release from State Senator Weiner after the jump.
