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The Giants of faith show true Pride

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The San Francisco Giants players who wrote Biblical verses on their hats launched an attack on Pride month and the LGBTQ community, selectively quoting verses in their attempt to impose their beliefs.

That’s what you might think if you followed some of the media coverage of the controversy involving several members of the Giants who declined to participate in Pride month, or who staged a quiet protest.

They “defaced their uniforms” said one columnist. They tried “to hijack the event,” she later added.

They “missed the point” with their “tone-deaf response,” another columnist wrote.

They had “weaponiz[ed]” Christianity “for an anti-LGBTQ agenda out of pure spite and nasty politics,” said another.

Let’s get one thing clear: Not one of these players set out to cause a fuss. All of them were reacting to something they had been forced to express when they were told to wear a rainbow “Pride” hat.

The team forced........

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