Originally published June 12, 2023 6:00 pm PDT
Following the backlash surrounding corporations supporting “pride month,” this year, MLB has told teams to not wear their gay pride uniforms.
QUICK FACTS:
- Major League Baseball (MLB) has instructed its teams not to wear “pride” gear this year following a number of boycotts directed at companies overtly celebrating gay pride.
- According to an article from Tampa Bay Times “under a new MLB directive, players won’t wear rainbow-themed caps or uniform patches, which led to controversy a year ago.”
- The move comes after the MLB faced criticism from players and fans over their support of LGBTQ+ initiatives and the targeting of small children.
- The decision by the league was reportedly made and announced during a February owner’s meeting after opposition last season of gay pride events held in stadiums across the country.
CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR TOMI LAHREN ON THE MLB GOING “WOKE”:
“Baseball is going woke. Remember those ‘pride nights’ hosted by many if not most MLB teams back in June, well at least 20 of them supported LGBT groups that encourage or provide sex-change and gender-transition hormone treatment for minors as young as 12! Wow!” Lahren said.
BACKGROUND:
- Last month, Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken extended an invitation to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an organization with strong ties to the LGBTQ+ community, to attend an Angels Pride Night.
- “I’m inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to join me for @Angels Pride Night at Anaheim Stadium on June 7. Pride should be inclusive and like many, I was disappointed in the Dodgers decision,” Aitken tweeted.
- The offer came after the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decided to rescind their invitation to the same group, leading to a public fallout with both the Los Angeles LGBT Center and LA Pride, who decided to withdraw from the Dodgers Pride Night set for June 16.
- Around the same time, CatholicVote President Brian Burch sent a letter to Los Angeles Dodgers principal owner Mark Walter and CEO Stan Kasten to announce an ad campaign aimed at boycotting the baseball team.
- “I represent the nation’s largest lay Catholic advocacy organization,” Burch’s letter stated. “We are supported by millions of devoted Catholics across America who believe that the time-honored values of life, family, and freedom — which the Dodgers used to celebrate — are demonstrably good for America, and worthy of respect, not ridicule.”
- “We wrote to you last week with a reasonable ask: Please do not honor this anti-Catholic hate group,” Burch wrote. “There is no place for anti-Catholic bigotry, mocking of religious sisters, or celebrating a perverse activist group whose identity is marked by blasphemy and mockery of Catholics.”
