Giants Pitcher Displays Bible Verse on Pride Night Hat; Others Follow
“Pregame during San Francisco Giants Pride Night, the team paraded 10 same-sex couples on the field where they renewed their “marriage” vows in front of fans & a gigantic drag queen.”
Pride Night has become an annual tradition for the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park. This year, OutKick’s Jon Root reported that fans who arrived early were treated to a pregame ceremony in which the team led ten same-sex couples onto the field to renew their wedding vows as a “gigantic drag queen” looked on.
Pregame during San Francisco Giants Pride Night, the team paraded 10 same-sex couples on the field where they renewed their “marriage” vows in front of fans & a gigantic drag queen…
Get this sexual depravity out of sports. Pride Nights should be banned. pic.twitter.com/IIsBDpHAOE
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) June 13, 2026
Before the game, players were asked to wear special-edition hats honoring the LGBTQ+ community — a tradition that not all players are comfortable with — including the team’s pitcher, Landon Roupp.
Roupp wore the cap but personalized it by writing the Bible verse “Gen. 9:12-16” next to the rainbow version of the team’s logo before taking the mound.
The passage reads:
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
Asked by a reporter afterward why he did that, Roupp replied, “It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us.”
“It’s just something I believe in and I stand firm in that. Thankfully we live in a country where we have the freedom to believe what we want,” he added.
Landen Roupp had Genesis 9:12-16 written on his pride hat tonight.
"It's just about God's covenant and a promise that he makes to us."
"It's just something I believe in and I stand firm in that. Thankfully we live in a country where we have the freedom to believe what we want." pic.twitter.com/asu2tdEW1x
— KNBR (@KNBR) June 13, 2026
A second player, reliever JT Brubaker, wrote Genesis 9:13 on his hat.
JT Brubaker, SF Giants reliever, sharing biblical faith on Pride Night. Landon Roupp, Giants starter, did the same.
Genesis 9:13 NIV
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. pic.twitter.com/jL9wsOOelE— Mark Higuera (@mark_the_fig) June 13, 2026
Root reported that pitcher Sam Hentges refused to wear the hat entirely — just as Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Blake Treinen had for his team’s Pride night.
In an op-ed published by Fox News, Root noted:
As the old saying goes, courage is contagious. That is the exact term that should be used when a professional athlete defies the calls for complete and utter loyalty to the LGBTQ agenda during Pride Nights.
We’ve seen it from Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen this season, and from a small few around professional sports that have refused to wear rainbow Pride jerseys, hats and more. On Friday night in San Francisco, Giants pitcher Landen Roupp made a powerful statement of faith in God by his protest against his team celebrating Pride Night.
While some users on X responded to the players’ “acts of defiance” with venom, many more applauded them for standing up for their convictions.
Roupp’s message was neither loud nor confrontational. He didn’t refuse to take the field, criticize his teammates, or make a public spectacle of himself. Instead, he used the limited space available to him to express a deeply held religious belief. Judging by the actions of Brubaker, Hentges, Treinen, and others around Major League Baseball, he is far from the only player who feels uncomfortable being asked to set aside those convictions for the sake of a Pride Night celebration.
You may recall in March when the Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey after he criticized the team’s promotion of Pride Month.
Of course we should treat every human being with respect, but no one should be expected to celebrate the LGBTQ community. The reality is that gays and transgenders are no more special than anyone else and I find it ludicrous that so many otherwise sane people treat them as though they are. And why must we spend an entire month lauding them?
The Left’s demand for adherence to an ideology that many Americans do not share has crossed the line from persuasion into coercion.
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You nailed it in your last paragraph. Respect? Of course. Celebrate? I guess, if you want. Force ME to celebrate? No way.
I feel not need to respect gays or transsexuals. I offer them indifference however if they leave me alone.
To clarify, this is a form of respect. It is respect for the privacy of another and their right to do things that obey the law wihout involving you.
If only more people embraced this concept on all sides of the aisle.
“You must wear the ribbon.”
Media and the left went nuts when this same thing happened in the NHL. During “Pride Night,” some players for different teams refused to wear warmup jerseys with “gay pride” messaging.
Some NHL teams have stopped “Pride Nights” due to the controversy within the league and within teams.
The women’s national soccer team always seem to wear jerseys supporting “gay pride.” Just last week in a (not) friendly match against Brazil, the numbers on the jerseys were in the gay flag colors.
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I am somewhat surprised by this.
MLB rules require that the uniforms of a team be uniform.
Maybe the listed players did not get into the game, or the umpires were told to ignore the violation if they did.
It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the umpires did enforce the letter of the rules.
I suspect that’s a can of worms the owners don’t want any part of. Every game there are minor differences between the uniforms/appearance among players. Put a necklace on and it hangs outside the jersey…that obscures the uniform and makes it different aka non uniform in appearance. Same for athletic tape. Same for longer hair. Same for cleats, laces, even different brand/style socks.
None of the things you mentioned are part of the official uniform.
Yet they alter the appearance of the uniform. Which is the point of uniform…so that everyone appears uniformly aka the same. For that matter any deviation from ‘professional’ appearance (subjective) is not allowed. FWIW there are ‘official’ socks. Undershirts gotta be in team color. All sorts of rules about things that ain’t A part of the ‘uniform’ but impact the appearance or detract from uniformity of the team.
The larger point, which seems to have been lost or maybe I didn’t communicate it clearly is if MLB goes after these players for a bible verse on their cap there’s gonna be hell to pay over all sorts of other things MLB hasn’t made an issue about in the past. Gonna be tough for MLB to sustain claims about ‘non uniform/alterations’ for X when they didn’t address analogous issues of A, B or C historically. It would be even worse PR…outside the woke lefty bubble that is.
Wearing a necklace is not a part of the uniform. Tape is not part of the uniform. There are generally two types of socks provided to MLB teams – regular socks (tube type) and stirrups – both are allowed because of the identical presentation of uniform colors and designs. Undershirts are part of the uniform (I have no idea why you think that is not part of the “uniform.”) There is no “uniform” length of hair as proscribed in what is a “uniform.” Shoes are not part of the uniform either.
What you think and offered as being part of the uniform, is not.
The problem with your point is that MLB has addressed “alterations” in the past. There have been cases where players wrote messages on their hats or wore unapproved patches on shirts. They were told to remove those messages and patches.
Once again, the things that you listed initially as being part of the uniform, are not.
It appears that you are incorrect.
Despite your opinion, MLB has been consistent on this type of thing in the past.
source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49079138/mlb-decries-use-personal-writings-pride-night-hats
FWIW undershirts are not part of the MLB ‘uniform’ but nevertheless are required to be in ‘team colors’. Cleats are definitely a part of the uniform and have rules such as 51% of the surface area must be uniform (to avoid players/coaches using garish/clashing colors), can’t display a non MLB approved ‘logo’, the length/type and composition of the spikes are all also covered in MLB uniform rules.
MLB issued a warning, that’s not a penalty and isn’t even the first round of such warnings for ‘Bible verses’.. They didn’t trumpet it and apparently didn’t come down with Cray Cray fines. Why?
MLB doesn’t want a PR war where they are trying to suppress the display of a Bible verse by going after the players publicly, openly with large fines. Their core fan base in the US doesn’t like that. The pride night crap is goofy MBA corporatism to appeal to a narrow segment of the population which works to extort these performative ‘support X’ nights. The leadership of MLB knows they will PO their core fan base, shed more views on TV, decrease fan attendance even further (costs for a MLB game all in on ticket, parking, concessions Mayne a hotel/cab are very high). They don’t want to lose middle America completely to run a blatant anti Christian effort to appease the ‘alphabet mafia’ and their coastal supporters.
Yes they are. That is why the rules specify the colors and the must be uniform with other players.
No they are not. There is no rule that requires all cleats to be the same.
You cannot display an non approved MLB logo because of marketing agreements with companies – not because the logos are not “uniform” from player to player.
Your understanding of what is a “uniform” is contrary to the rules.
BTW – MLB has warned the players not to do it again.
In the past, MLB has treated “messages” on uniforms the same way.
It is not the content of the message. It is the message itself.
Excellent. Displaying the Bible on the uniform is the quickest way to ensure that the uniforms go back to uniformity. Does that make sense?
The uniforms are uniform. The Biblical citations alter the uniforms.
Let’s take this out of the realm of this issue for a moment.
Assume that a player’s father has a pizza joint. It’s small, but makes good pizza.
That player has no right to put a message on their hat saying “Eat At Guido’s Pizza.” That message is not part of the uniform designed and approved by the team and MLB. That message would be banned.
I can see the same thing happening with those who wrote Biblical citations on their hats. Removal of that message is supported by the MLB rules, interpretations, and casebooks of the sport.
I just wonder the level of outrage here if someone had written on their hat a verse from the Koran? Or how about writing “Free Palestine” on their hat?
It is a slippery slope.
MLB is putting non-uniform speech on the uniform. If a team had a R-owner who made an official MAGA uniform, some players would alter it for a contrasting message.
I predict that the players’ union will prove useless in resolving this issue.
Thank you, gentlemen. Being forced to support something which you believe is wrong just because you’re on a team is wrong. We can accept but don’t need to agree or promote these unusual differences.
If you haven’t realized it, God’s rainbow is different than the pride rainbow.
God hasn’t added the latest political causes to the rainbow, he made it eternal.
What does the players’ contact say?
If it says anything to the effect of “wear the damned uniform as-is and don’t eff with it” and the player signed up, then he should be punished according to the terms of the contract.
I hope if there’s a fine that it is meaningful. Something like 3 to 5% of gross annual salary, not some $5000 fine the player can pay from petty cash.
Rules and contracts mean something or they don’t. If they don’t, why have them?
Pride in what? Just another five letter word, like shame or Satan. Words are equal? The deceiver will tell you whatever you want to hear,.
With LGBQT— never be the first to stop clapping.
Hat tip to these guys for saying no.
Great comment !
Whatever happened to their mantra: “we just want to be left alone.”
Perhaps that should be our voice now…
Funny how that works. The last thing they want is to be left alone. Consummate attention=seekers.
It’s not just your attention that they seek, it is your active affirmation of their degeneracy and delusion. If you don’t willingly provide it, they will extract it with the heel of the government’s boot on your neck.
When Jackie Robinson became first minority player – stuff like this became inevitable.
I believe the Texas Rangers is the one MLB team that does not hold a “pride night”
And now we see the fallout:
source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49079138/mlb-decries-use-personal-writings-pride-night-hats
Lived in SF, years ago. Went to Candlestick with my dad for Giants games. It’s different now. Another country now, one I won’t return to.
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