Harmeet Dillon, USDOJ vs. Rob Manfred, MLB

Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB), is about to face scrutiny like he's never faced before. Last week Friday, the San Francisco Giants hosted Pride Night to 'honor' the LGBTQIA+ community. The problem that arose was that Giants' pitchers Landon Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wrote Bible verses on their team-issued hats.

According to the report, "The players referenced Genesis 9:12-16, a passage on the rainbow covenant." After God destroyed the Earth and its inhabitants (except for Noah and his wife and their 3 children and their wives), God established His Covenant with Noah, saying "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth. 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: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth."

The Hill reports "The Justice Department announced on Thursday that it is opening an investigation into whether Major League Baseball (MLB) engaged in religious discrimination when it issued warnings to three players for wearing caps with Bible verses on them during a Pride Night game."

"Swing and a miss! Major League Baseball encouraged players to wear “Black Lives Matter” on their uniforms but reportedly threatened Christians who write Bible verses on their hats," Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, wrote in a post on the social platform X.
Further, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Robert Manfred in response to the MLB’s warning to San Francisco Giants pitchers for referencing Bible verses on their caps during the team’s "Pride Night."

One of the fundamentals of the Constitution is the equal application of this nation's laws. Clearly, MLB applied the Civil Rights Act differently when dealing with BLM than when dealing with the Bible. If Commissioner Manfred testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he'd be well-advised to take a verbal beating from Republicans.

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